Hi @GuruPG & @grom.m20b25, thanks for the feedback.
I managed to find some time to look more closely in to this and thanks to pnbruckner have come up with a solution that at least works on my DEV setup.
- Copy all the files from https://github.com/Rendili/hive-for-home-assistant/tree/master/custom_components/hive to
<config>/custom_components/hive/ - Restart
What this does is make all of Hive a custom component, but for all components except sensor will redirect to the built-in Hive code and for the sensor component use the custom component code.
In the future if there are any Home Assistant releases that have updated Hive code, then this will automatically be picked up in the usual way of upgrading Home Assistant.
If there is an update to the custom component code, then the latest code will still need to be downloaded from the above location.
It pretty much the same as before, except we need to copy more files for the initial setup, and for each component there will be a warning in the log to say it is a custom component, which except for sensor, it really isn’t.
2019-03-08 22:42:07 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.loader] You are using a custom component for hive which has not been tested by Home Assistant. This component might cause stability problems, be sure to disable it if you do experience issues with Home Assistant.
2019-03-08 22:42:09 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.loader] You are using a custom component for hive.sensor which has not been tested by Home Assistant. This component might cause stability problems, be sure to disable it if you do experience issues with Home Assistant.
2019-03-08 22:42:09 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.loader] You are using a custom component for hive.climate which has not been tested by Home Assistant. This component might cause stability problems, be sure to disable it if you do experience issues with Home Assistant.
2019-03-08 22:42:09 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.loader] You are using a custom component for hive.light which has not been tested by Home Assistant. This component might cause stability problems, be sure to disable it if you do experience issues with Home Assistant.
You will get one warning entry for each Hive component you use. I don’t have any switches or hive sensors, so my setup does not try and load those components, so I don’t get those warnings.
please let me know if this does not work for you, and I will take another look.