Steam Deck Home Assistant project

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I got a Steam Deck last christmas and would like to make a fun Home Assistant project with it. The plan is too make a great looking docking station with LED’s that displays the charging state.

I already found a way too import the sensors of the steam deck too Home Assistant with Go Hass Agent.

Steam deck sensors
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Problem with this setup is that the sensors only update when the deck is on DESKTOP MODE, still need to find out how i can make Go Hass Agent run as a background service.

I also made a steam deck card for my dashboard:
deck card

type: picture-elements
elements:
  - type: state-icon
    title: Steamdeck
    entity: sensor.steamdeck_atc_battery_level
    show_state: true
    state_color: true
    style:
      top: 15%
      left: 68%
      transform: scale(1,1)
  - type: state-label
    entity: sensor.steamdeck_atc_battery_level
    style:
      top: 35%
      left: 73%
  - type: state-icon
    title: Steamdeck
    entity: sensor.steamdeck_wi_fi_signal_strength
    show_state: true
    state_color: true
    style:
      top: 15%
      left: 28%
      transform: scale(1,1)
  - type: state-label
    entity: sensor.steamdeck_lo_connection_state
    style:
      top: 35%
      left: 32%
image: /local/media/steamdeck.png
card_mod:
  style: |
    ha-card {
    background: transparent;
    }

I will update my progress on the project and would like too hear suggestions and comments!

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I got it working by setting up go-hass-agent as a systemd service. I followed this https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/vocyi5/start_syncthing_automatically_on_steamdeck_even/ and modified the file as follows

/home/deck/.config/systemd/user/go-hass-agent.service

[Unit]
Description=go-hass-agent

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=go-hass-agent
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=1

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Then started it

systemctl --user enable go-hass-agent
systemctl --user start go-hass-agent

Thanks for your post as I was pointed in the right direction and getting go-hass-agent set up!

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Nice work!
I updated go-hass-agent and it seems to messed up all my sensors.
Does go-hass-agent work in gaming mode on your setup?

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I briefly did a test while playing a game last night and modified your card as some of the sensors didn’t work:

elements:
  - type: state-icon
    title: Steamdeck
    entity: sensor.steamdeck_getac_battery_level
    show_state: true
    state_color: true
    style:
      top: 15%
      left: 68%
      transform: scale(1,1)
  - type: state-label
    entity: sensor.steamdeck_getac_battery_level
    style:
      top: 35%
      left: 73%
  - type: state-icon
    title: Steamdeck
    entity: sensor.steamdeck_wi_fi_signal_strength
    show_state: true
    state_color: true
    style:
      top: 15%
      left: 28%
      transform: scale(1,1)
  - type: state-label
    entity: sensor.steamdeck_lo_connection_state
    style:
      top: 35%
      left: 32%

Not sure why the battery level changed to sensor.steamdeck_getac_battery_level for example :frowning: . Just booted up my steam deck now in game mode and seeing the sensors updating on the device page (Sensors and Diagnostics)

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How do you even begin to install Go Hass Agent? I downloaded the tar.zst file from the link you provided, but not sure what to do with it from there :blush: Thanks!

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From the terminal in Desktop mode, use pacman to install arch linux packages:

sudo pacman -U package.pkg.tar.zst

You may need to disable read only mode by running sudo steamos-readonly disable. See the Steam Support :: Steam Deck Desktop: FAQ for more details

Afterwards, go-hass-agent should be on your path and can call it.

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Stil don’t manage to make a good use of the sensors.
Added go hass agent as service but they won’t update when in gaming mode….

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Is this able to persist through steamos updates?