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Nothing fancy, but in case anyone else is interested here is some config to get PiAware status into Home Assistant.

rest:
  - resource: http://piaware/status.json
    scan_interval: 60
    sensor:
      - name: Piaware Status
        value_template: "OK"
        json_attributes:
          - "modes_enabled"
          - "dump978_version"
          - "cpu_load_percent"
          - "site_url"
          - "time"
          - "uat_radio"
          - "piaware"
          - "cpu_temp_celcius"
          - "uat_enabled"
          - "dump1090_version"
          - "adept"
          - "mlat"
          - "piaware_version"
          - "radio"

template:
  - sensor:
      - name: "Piaware Status CPU Load"
        unit_of_measurement: "%"
        state: "{{ state_attr('sensor.piaware_status', 'cpu_load_percent')|float(default=0) }}"
        state_class: 'measurement'
        
      - name: "Piaware Status CPU Temperature"
        unit_of_measurement: "°F"
        state: >
            {%- set c = state_attr('sensor.piaware_status', 'cpu_temp_celcius')|float(default=16) %}
            {{ ((c)*9/5)+32 }}
        device_class: 'temperature'
        state_class: 'measurement'
        
      - name: "Piaware Status 978 Radio"
        state: "{{ state_attr('sensor.piaware_status', 'uat_radio')['status'] }}"
        attributes:
          message: "{{ state_attr('sensor.piaware_status', 'uat_radio')['message'] }}"

      - name: "Piaware Status 1090 Radio"
        state: "{{ state_attr('sensor.piaware_status', 'radio')['status'] }}"
        attributes:
          message: "{{ state_attr('sensor.piaware_status', 'radio')['message'] }}"

      - name: "Piaware Status Daemon"
        state: "{{ state_attr('sensor.piaware_status', 'piaware')['status'] }}"
        attributes:
          message: "{{ state_attr('sensor.piaware_status', 'piaware')['message'] }}"

      - name: "Piaware Status Connection"
        state: "{{ state_attr('sensor.piaware_status', 'adept')['status'] }}"
        attributes:
          message: "{{ state_attr('sensor.piaware_status', 'adept')['message'] }}"

      - name: "Piaware Status MLAT"
        state: "{{ state_attr('sensor.piaware_status', 'mlat')['status'] }}"
        attributes:
          message: "{{ state_attr('sensor.piaware_status', 'mlat')['message'] }}"

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I think I’m going to try to pull together a custom component to replace this and add a little polish, but that’s a post for another day.

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What are the various radio and MLAT status sensors? The number aircraft currently being received for those methods or?

Do you know if they expose a way to get a list of all tails by distance? It’d be nice to be able to filter by distance and show details for say the 3 closest or within x miles

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What are the various radio and MLAT status sensors? The number aircraft currently being received for those methods or?

Right now the radio sensors just show radio health: red for can’t talk to radio, amber for radio’s there but no traffic, and green for radio’s there and there’s traffic. MLAT is the same: is MLAT synced or not.

Do you know if they expose a way to get a list of all tails by distance? It’d be nice to be able to filter by distance and show details for say the 3 closest or within x miles

The aircraft lists are probably too long and complicated for using the simple method I’m using above. For that I think a custom component will be required. I’m working on building the library, but it’s probably going to take awhile.

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To track your piaware detected aircrafts, you may use http://<IP:Port PiAware WebUI>/data/aircraft.json

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Hey mate, I’m interested in pulling in my piaware into as well, but I’m still a little new to home assistant, is there a certain type of card this is nested into? Or could you share the entire card’s yaml? Thank you so much, excited to add this and sorry if I’m overlooking something!

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No specific card. The rest block of code above creates sensor.piaware_* entities. Then you can use standard HA cards to display them. The screenshot I posted above is showing a History Graph Card set to display the entities.

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Oh, are you adding the above code into your config yaml? Maybe that’s where I just got lost, where to put the code itself. I’ll try config yaml, but let me know if its somewhere else. Thanks for the reply!

EDIT: Got it working, thank you so much!