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?
I followed all of the links to request a feature and have finally arrived here. I don’t closely monitor Syncthing, so I just learned that my two servers had been disconnected for I don’t know how long. Home Assistant is the main app I use to monitor the statuses of various devices and services since it can integrate so well with so many of them. It would be incredibly valuable to know the status of each device, at the very least.
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