Add-on ideas

[balloob (Paulus Schoutsen)]

I have moved the add-on configuration discussion to it’s own topic at

Extend add-on capabilities

I allready have a docker image to run mopidy on the raspberry pi. I need to run it with --device /dev/snd in order to access the sound card from the container. Is it possible to have this option activated for an hass.io add-on ? If this is possible, I will try to convert it to be run as an add-on. Since I need to run it on another host, are the add-on runnable independently ? Edit : I have Mopidy running in a debian based image. I didn’t managed to build a working image with resin/*-alpine.

[Robban]

UniFi controller would be nice for this

[CTLS]

The Concord232 component can’t run without the concord232 server so that would be a nice add-on.

[jcastro (Jonatan)]

I would add to the list Homebridge

[nachiarg]

Homebridge would be really nice

[mcfrojd]

I would like to se
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/floorplan-for-home-assistant/17394

As a addon.

[Dominic (Dominic McGlinn)]

sense Hat would be handy

[robmarkcole (Robin)]

Apache server to make available contents of a specific folder would be useful e.g to enable browser based browsing of images captured by a camera

[balloob (Paulus Schoutsen)]

We already support the local www folder in the home Assistant config dir

[robmarkcole (Robin)]

I wasn’t aware of that but found the blog post now https://home-assistant.io/blog/2016/04/07/static-website/ Didn’t find any detail in the docs?

[robmarkcole (Robin)]

Kyso looks like a really great tool - could contribute notebooks of analysis of HASS database data

https://kyso.io/

[tbrasser (Thomas Brasser)]

Seems that you can’t host that yourself (for free). I’ve been using InfluxDB and Grafana and have no issues with that setup. (Even available for hass.io now: Repository: Bestlibre Addons repository )

[robmarkcole (Robin)]

Kyso can be hosted and run in docker for free, and teams can be created. However notebooks are ‘public’ on the free tier. For hassle free jupyter notebooks this could be a good way to go.

[RitteT]

I’ve been using netdata instead of glances and really like it. It would be really nice to have for hass.io

[Romkabouter]

I am currently working on a local kiosk browser, so you can deploy hass.io on a Pi3 with a touchscreen.
Hopefully ready soon.

[stickystyle (Ryan Parrish)]

For those of us that keep our config at github; an add-on that that listens for web-hooks (or periodically polls) from github or travis, and automatically pulls the config down when there is something new.

[vkorn (Vlad Korniev)]

Made something similar https://github.com/vkorn/hassio-addons/tree/master/configwatcher but using git pulls as it’s more unified than web-hooks (I’m using bitbucket, for example).

[tillmannschatz]

Tor’s Hidden Service feature would be nice as an addon

I’ve found this and this docker image, maybe this can be incorporated?
And these two articles (link, link).

I need this because my ISP provides me with an ipv6 ip address, thus I cannot connect from my smartphone if I’m away (my mobile provider only provides LTE with ipv4)

[tbrasser (Thomas Brasser)]

I know there is IPv6 over IPv4, maybe it also exists the other way around?
I have previously set-up an hidden onion service for HA, and that worked. But you’ll have to use a tor browser on your phone, and it kinda sucks (except for when you really want your home-server to be invisible on the web, but I’m running more things like Plex etc so that’s not the main priority for me)

[tillmannschatz]

Yeah I checked some IPv6 to IPv4 services. I tested the TOR hidden service with a normal install and really liked it. In general I don’t need acces to the homeautomation system from outside my flat, however it would be nice to have the possibility to just check it in some cases.