Blinkstick platform issue

Installation Home Assistant OS
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I’ve got a few Blinkstick doing nothing and just found out they should be supported by Home Assistant.

I’ve added this to my configuration.yaml:

light:
  - platform: blinksticklight
    serial: BS001723-3.0

But the Core log shows me this:

2020-07-23 19:53:58 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.light] Error while setting up blinksticklight platform for light
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/entity_platform.py", line 178, in _async_setup_platform
    await asyncio.wait_for(asyncio.shield(task), SLOW_SETUP_MAX_WAIT)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/asyncio/tasks.py", line 442, in wait_for
    return fut.result()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 57, in run
    result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/blinksticklight/light.py", line 43, in setup_platform
    add_entities([BlinkStickLight(stick, name)], True)
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/blinksticklight/light.py", line 53, in __init__
    self._serial = stick.get_serial()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_serial'

According to the host log my Blinkstick is connected and recognized:

[    1.827698] usb 2-2.1: new low-speed USB device number 4 using uhci_hcd
[    2.287802] usb 2-2.1: New USB device found, idVendor=20a0, idProduct=41e5, bcdDevice= 2.01
[    2.287803] usb 2-2.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[    2.287804] usb 2-2.1: Product: BlinkStick
[    2.287805] usb 2-2.1: Manufacturer: Agile Innovative Ltd
[    2.287806] usb 2-2.1: SerialNumber: BS001723-3.0
[    2.322909] hid-generic 0003:20A0:41E5.0002: hiddev96,hidraw1: USB HID v1.01 Device [Agile Innovative Ltd BlinkStick] on usb-0000:02:02.0-2.1/input0

There is a comment about adding udev rules, but the blinkstick command is not recognized anywhere and I’m also not sure if and where the udev rules should be added (host, superviser, etc).

Anyone has Blinksticks working on HassOS?

2

Did you ever get this working? I’ve noticed that my blink stick has stopped working. I don’t know if it broke from a version of HA, or upgrading to python 3.9. I retried:
sudo blinkstick --add-udev-rule

and blinkstick command line has no issue. But HA keeps throwing the same error.

To be honest, I’ve never been happy with Blinkstick. Unstable since day one.

3

Blinkstick in HomeAssistant isn’t compatible with Python 3.9. I’ve put in a pull request for this.

Updating the manifest to the higher version did the trick.
/srv/ha/lib/python3.9/site-packages/homeassistant/components/blinksticklight/manifest.json

4

I have update the manifest file, however this didn’t make any difference in my case…
Were there any additional steps involved?