Home Assistant Community Add-on: Folding@home

frenck · March 22, 2020, 10:30pm

This add-on is provided by the Home Assistant Community Add-ons project.

About

Fighting disease with a world wide distributed super computer.

Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project for performing molecular dynamics simulations of protein dynamics. Its initial focus was on protein folding but has shifted to more biomedical problems, such as Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, Ebola and the coronavirus.

The project uses the idle processing resources of personal computers owned by volunteers who have installed the software on their systems. Now you can donate the idle time of your Home Assistant instance to the Folding@home project, helping to fight these diseases.

Join the Home Assistant Folding@home team! (id: 247478)

Team stats: https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/247478

Installation

The installation of this add-on is pretty straightforward and not different in comparison to installing any other Home Assistant add-on.

Search for the “Folding@home” add-on in the add-on store.
Install the “Folding@home” add-on.
Start the “Folding@home” add-on.
Check the logs of the “Folding@home” to see if everything went well.
Open the Web UI.

Note: By default, the add-on joins the Home Assistant team (id: 247478).

Team stats: https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/247478

Support

You can always try to get support from the community here at the Home Assistant community forums, join the conversation!

Questions? You have several options to get them answered:

The Home Assistant Community Add-ons Discord chat server for add-on support and feature requests.
The Home Assistant Discord chat server for general Home Assistant discussions and questions.
Join the Reddit subreddit in /r/homeassistant

You could also open an issue on GitHub, in case you ran into a bug, or maybe you have an idea on improving the addon:

Open an issue for the addon: Folding@home
For general repository issues or add-on ideas open an issue here

At this moment our Home Assistant Community Add-ons Discord chat server and GitHub are our only official support channels. All others rely on community effort.

Repository on GitHub

Looking for more add-ons?

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Check out some of our other add-ons in our Home Assistant Community Add-ons project.

frenck · March 22, 2020, 10:31pm

About the author of this add-on

Hi there!

I am Franck Nijhof, and I have 30 years of programming experience, in many languages. I am using this experience to work on the Home Assistant project by giving back my knowledge and time to the open source community.

The add-on you are currently looking at right now was developed/packaged by me. It is not the only add-on I have created; there are many many more

Enjoy your add-on!

…/Frenck

P.S.: In case you want to ask me a question: AMA (Ask Me Anything). Most of the time I am online at the Discord chat. (I go by @Frenck in there as well).

minsuke · March 22, 2020, 11:43pm

Thx for your idea and development with social sharing action.

I wish Human can control the disease some day.

Fury1SOG · March 23, 2020, 3:30am

Thank you very much for this add-on! I have installed it and waiting for an assignment.

cliffordwhansen · March 23, 2020, 8:17am

Been a while since I had this installed, and now it’s a HA Addon!!! awesome job

Only issue I seem to be having is that I’m not getting any WU? is this just me?

frenck · March 23, 2020, 8:32am

That is not just you, since they added the coronovirus they had an enormous boost in donators. As far as I understand, they are currently scaling up.

Work drops in slowly.

Piggyback · March 23, 2020, 9:57am

Would love to participate, but see it cannot be installed on an RPI (3b+)… what´s the reason for that?

frenck · March 23, 2020, 9:57am

The Folding@home project does not support ARM based machines (Raspberry Pi). Not much I can do about that.

Piggyback · March 23, 2020, 10:03am

thanks! shame

katsaplias · March 23, 2020, 11:25am

@frenck nice idea, well done!
I just started folding but I don’t see any option for covid virus on the dropdown menu, is it a bug or a feature?

frenck · March 23, 2020, 11:55am

Covid is automatically given when selecting “Any”, see the folding@home website/blog for more information about this.

katsaplias · March 23, 2020, 2:25pm

thanks

myle · March 24, 2020, 12:58am

Thanks Bro

but im getting this

but the Web UI not working

MandM78 · March 24, 2020, 3:01pm

I’m having a similar issue. Seems like the web UI has a problem with http vs https and it doesn’t like my duckdns URL. Clicking “Open Web UI” from the add-on page directs me to my duckdns URL ("https://XXXXXX.duckdns.org:7396/), which doesn’t load.

If I manually go to http://hassio.local:7396 or my local IP ("http://xxx.xxx.x.xxx:7396) the web UI loads, but constantly refreshes and won’t let me change any settings (can’t change CPU usage, user, passcode, etc.)

klogg · March 24, 2020, 4:48pm

Yes I get this too

jagee23 · March 24, 2020, 11:04pm

I also see the same thing but only in Chrome. Edge and IE seem to work much better.

klogg · March 24, 2020, 11:37pm

Thanks, yes Edge seems to work for me too…

dwinnn · March 25, 2020, 3:09am

great idea! I love your add-ons

brtlvrs · March 27, 2020, 1:19pm

are cpushares options used when running the container ?

I’m running Folding at Home on a seperate docker host, with cpushares <1024.
This will help prioritizing the docker host when there is a contingency with CPU resources.
1024 is the default for cpu shares.
When you make it lower for the folding at home container / plugin, you can let the FAHClient run on full power. Meanwhile the docker host enginer will give it less priority when there is cpu resource contention. Making sure the other containers are not pushed away by this container, when they need cpu resources.

jagee23 · March 28, 2020, 1:19am

Hey @frenck, great work on the add-on! If you or anyone else is interested, it looks like you get the F@H data back into HA via their API. I have the following sensors set up and it works well. You would just need to change out your user name at the end of the URL.

- platform: rest
  resource: https://stats.foldingathome.org/api/donor/jagee23
  name: Folding at Home Points
  value_template: '{{ value_json.credit }}'

- platform: rest
  resource: https://stats.foldingathome.org/api/donor/jagee23
  name: Folding at Home Work Units
  value_template: '{{ value_json.wus }}'

- platform: rest
  resource: https://stats.foldingathome.org/api/team/247478
  name: Folding at Home Team Points
  value_template: '{{ value_json.credit }}'

- platform: rest
  resource: https://stats.foldingathome.org/api/team/247478
  name: Folding at Home Team Work Units
  value_template: '{{ value_json.wus }}'