I’d like to have some information about devices and folders from Syncthing in Home Assistant.
Use case: I want to set up a notification if a device hasn’t been active for a while or when a folder has a certain size.
When looking at the source code, I see the folders are already available as an attribute, but not as a sensor. If someone can help me with changing this to real sensors, please let me know. While I have no experience with developing in HA (and no Python experience, but with JS/PHP) I’m happy to learn.
I support that.
The documentation for the Syncthing integration is available here: Syncthing - Home Assistant
Current state of information available via the integration:
- syncing folders
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There is already one sensor per syncing folder available with a lot attributes. -
additional attributes or sensor might be useful like: last scan time
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- Device statistics are not available yet. Things like: uptime, version, identification, total files, folders, disk usage, #synced folders, #remote devices
- Remote Devices are not available yet.
- Here especially last seen or sync status are quite interesting for automations i.e. to report devices which were not available for long time.
In 2020 @Moonbase59 already made a great tutorial for lot’s of the information via yaml based REST calls.
Nevertheless since the there is already a Syncthing integration available and this feature request there here also existed, I wanted to summarize the current state and different solutions here alltogether.
Maybe it helps to see more people supporting this by voting for it or eventually somebody files a pull request.
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Additional Resources:
- syncthing integration is making use of the aiosyncthing library
- syncthings REST api: REST API — Syncthing documentation
- syncthings EVENT api: Event API — Syncthing documentation
I see there are many attributes implemented (homeassistant/components/syncthing/sensor.py:54), but not as a sensor.
As I said, I have no experience with Python, but I’m willing to try to implement additional features.
How would the perfect implementation look like? Are Folders and Remote Devices both Devices?