Ok I just can’t seem to find the hidden .homeassisstant. in my home directory or any where else unless I do a link via Samba
Mike- open Script_editor.app and put this code in, then run it. It will list your HomePods for you and you can pick a keyword from each of them:
tell application "Airfoil"
launch
activate
get every speaker
end tell
Then you can use they keyword like I do in the examples above:
connect to (every speaker whose id contains "Bath")
Stereo pairs appear to be only listed once so Airfoil sees them as a single speaker.
Jason you can hide & unhide hidden files (start with a dot) in Finder using this keyboard combo:
shift-command-period
This is still working for me. Make sure you replace “username” with the actual HA user’s name…
I understand about hidden files and finder.but .homeassistant isn’t there
-r-------- 1 jason staff 7 Nov 1 2021 .CFUserTextEncoding
-rw-r--r--@ 1 jason staff 24580 Jan 13 04:41 .DS_Store
drwx------ 3 jason staff 96 Mar 30 04:35 .Trash
-rw------- 1 jason staff 9167 Oct 29 14:07 .bash_history
drwx------ 33 jason staff 1056 Oct 26 13:52 .bash_sessions
-rw-r--r-- 1 jason staff 23 Apr 22 2022 .bashrc
drwx------ 3 jason staff 96 Nov 2 2021 .cups
drwxr-xr-x 16 jason staff 512 Mar 30 05:32 .dropbox
drwxr-xr-x 9 jason staff 288 Jan 12 13:50 .dynupdater
-rw------- 1 jason staff 1843 Jan 15 08:41 .history
drwxr-xr-x 4 jason staff 128 Sep 18 2022 .local
-rw-r--r-- 1 jason staff 257 Apr 22 2022 .profile
drwxr-xr-x 6 jason staff 192 Sep 18 2022 .pyenv
drwx------ 4 jason staff 128 Jan 12 12:47 .ssh
-rw-r--r-- 1 jason staff 1401 Oct 26 12:27 .tcshrc
drwx------ 6 jason staff 192 Nov 8 2021 .vnc
-rw-r--r-- 1 jason staff 130 Dec 3 2021 .vuescanrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 jason staff 33 Apr 22 2022 .zprofile
I have no problem running the applcript form te Mac I just can’t see how to run from homeassistant
You’re probably starting HA as root, in which case look for your config files here:
/private/var/root/
I talk about this confusion in the fourth or fifth paragraph here.
I will read your link wenI have a clear head. as the configuration files are not in my
/private/var/root/
what. have there is
drwxr-x--- 5 root wheel 160 Nov 1 2021 .
drwxr-xr-x 34 root wheel 1088 Mar 31 10:09 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3 Nov 1 2021 .CFUserTextEncoding
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 10 Aug 17 2018 .forward
drwx------ 21 root wheel 672 Oct 29 15:10 Library
sh-3.2#
and they dot appear in the Library
Well if you’re running Catalina or Ventura and you’re not running in docker or something (in which case I have no idea) then it’s about what user starts home assistant. If you have a user specifically for HA then it’ll be in that user’s main folder. If all else fails…
sudo find / -type d -name '.homeassistant'
I am Monterey and Home Assistant as follow
Home Assistant 2023.1.7
Supervisor 2023.01.1
Operating System 9.5
Frontend 20230110.0 - latest
I’m Virtual Machine running Under Virtual Box. I have no idea what docker is. That may be my core problem
Ok did some research seems docker is a hole different approach but it better access to MacOS
statement?
I don’t use it- seems like unnecessary complexity to me
Your
sudo find / -type d -name ‘.homeassistant’
finds nothing and give some a series operations to permitted even though my sudo password is accepted
I am running HA under my user ID. and .homeasistant doe not appear in my home directory . re you running it under a virtual machine?
Hmm you’ve lost your config files.
This must have something to do with the structure of the files in the VM- do you have to search those separately? I use a VENV but not a hypervisor so I don’t know how that works.
Now you are talking way above me… As fa as I can figure out VENV create a virtual enviroment using python Reviewing https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/macos. it would appear that ti create t virtual “somethings” oner fo HA OS and other for the Core
Ohhh you’re using the HA OS version (which I’ve never used). A quick search yields:
/root/config/
You’ll have to look inside the container though, however you do that
I am completely confused. Every time I try I ee to uncover one more version of HA. TTS is important to my attempt to ue HA for a security system What version ofHA are you using?
There’s a good discussion of the install types here.
I used the core method, which involves creating a VENV and is the most technically challenging of the installs, but you’ll learn a hell of a lot doing it. I don’t think the supervised install will run on MacOS and the HA OS method replaces the operating system entirely so you’d only do that on like an RPi (unless it can be containerized as it sounds like maybe you did with a VM). The last choice requires one to figure out Docker (which I didn’t) so I followed the technique linked in the first sentence of this entire topic.
So the discussion et forth ohttps://www.home-assistant.io/installation/macos. Is in fact two different approaches not one. That is where I went wrong. Like I sad what you are attempting with the TTS is what I really want to have. Sometime my current approach Eem like here are three different layer at the same time, Linux , HA OS and Mac OS. I think you re right about the container. I will save my current systems as I provide everything I want so far except for TTS and five the Core Approach a shot… Thanks will let you know ho it goes so others may profit from my experience I take Add On ad Intergrations still work with e Core Approach ?
ok ae ir a shot. but I depend. on Zwave. Apparently that becomes an "advanced topic"and past the installation guid and most likely beyond this noobie.
@fmon - I know this topic is years old, but it’s the one that finally got me (almost) fully sorted for whole home audio and video (in sync!) and I am tremendously grateful for your write ups.
Like - seriously - thank you!
This might be pushing my luck but I wanted to ask:
Have you ever done anything with home assistant and airfoil to control volume with a slider?
I have two Airport Express endpoints that I use with this, and they don’t expose volume controls - so I have to use airplay to set the volume of those two sets of speakers in the house. Everything else I just leave airfoil at 100% and control the volume directly on the devices.
This isn’t too hard and mostly I just set them statically when I make any of our home assistant one button switches (music or video really is the big switch we do, but also have buttons to turn/off on any of 7 speaker zones) but then I have to manually use Airfoil if I want to make an adjustment from the defaults I set. Just for those two speaker sets. All the others are “true” airplay 2 targets and I can control volume from a typical media player type slider.
I’m presuming I could so something with applescript like:
#!/bin/bash
osascript <<EOD
tell application "Airfoil"
get (volume of every speaker whose name starts with "speakerName")
end tell
EOD
Get that volume and store it some helper
Set the initial value of some slider to whatever it comes back with
and then I guess?
write a script that on change of that slider would do a tell airfoil action to set volume.
That seems right, but I’m failing to come up with a way to get it to actually work and wondered if you had done anything like that already that you could share?
If not - of course no worries at all, and for real thanks a ton. Yours was the write up that got me to solve something I was banging my head against the wall on for months and months. And it’s glorious. This is just an attempt to make it a little bit better than it already is.