Hello All…
I am experimenting with an installation for a disconnected environment and am having problems.
I was thinking this would be a good piece of software to use in a remote cabin that has no internet so that I can automate a few things, but I am running into an issue. I know, unusual anymore in the current world, wanting to do stuff with out the internet available.
The first line of the Securing Home Assistant page gave me some hope. “One major advantage of Home Assistant is that it’s not dependent on cloud services”
However, after installing and hitting the HA home page, right away I see that my browser is attempting to go hit google.com. So much for not dependent on cloud services. It is breaking the setup as well, when I click on any of the sensors, I get a popup that just has a spinning circle in it, and it never proceedes, so it is not like I can just disconnect and still be operational with out relying on the javascript from google that is being consumed.
Is there any way to disable this functionality, or should I keep searching for other software?
Also the Securing Home Assistant page should probably be updated.
I’m pretty sure I ran HA for a few weeks without internet access after moving. Maybe it only needs it first time starting to download some dependencies?
It is running, and appears to be functional. There are some exceptions to the web interface though. If it were something that HA was trying to download to install it would be coming from the server, not my browser on a separate computer.
I also found that the history page is non functional, it just has a the spinning circle on it also.
Depending on how many entities you have it can take a bit to load the history page. It seems like it generates that page as it’s requested.
Same goes for clicking on a sensor. This should be much quicker but can still take a second as it generates the history for that sensor. Should be much quicker than the history page though.
May be helpful to post what sensors you are using. Any of the weather services, the sun sensor etc likely rely on web data, you will need to sort these and disconnect them.
Home Assistant itself is not dependent on cloud services (unless of course you use a component, like Nest, that can only be controlled through some cloud provider).
But: the web application that serves as the primary front-end does indeed use the external Google charts API to plot graphs.
All automation rules and API access is unaffected by this, it’s only in the UI sugar coating.