TEMPer integration is non-functional - should be dropped from HA

[Etherbrat (Neil Higgins)]

The TEMPer integration for gathering temperature data from a USB temperature sensor is non-functional. Looking at github, there is a redirect from the original TEMPer repo to another, from which the PyPI repo is updated. According to one report, the problem with the HA integration is that it is based on an unstable, and superseded, version temper.py. The HA integration is not being maintained. Rather than waste people’s time, the TEMPer integration should be removed from the distributed version(s) of HA.

[Sir_Goodenough ((SG) WhatAreWeFixing.Today)]

Hi Neil Higgins,

Consider adding an issue. Adding a post here for a broken core integration will likely not solve the problem.
As per the HA documentation, there is currently no integration owner so an issue is the only way anyone will know it is broken…

TEMPer

Reporting issues

Issues · home-assistant/core

[tmo]

Works for me.

[Etherbrat (Neil Higgins)]

News to me. I just followed the instructions (twice), but never got any entities. Then I searched the community and github. The latter is where I discovered that TEMPer in github is unmaintained. One HA user reported doing a hack to get it going, but admitted that he would have to repeat that hack after every upgrade. What’s your configuration? How/where did you create the relevant udev rules?

[Etherbrat (Neil Higgins)]

So I report it as a core issue? There appears to be no tracker for integrations.

[tmo]

@Etherbrat

What’s your configuration? How/where did you create the relevant udev rules?

I basically followed TEMPer - Home Assistant

To create the udev rule, I followed HOWTO: How to access the Home Assistant OS host itself over ssh (first point only)

@michaelarnauts

You’ll first need to login to the host itself, trough the host console. You can do this from within the interface of Proxmox. Just open the console, and login with root, you don’t need a password. Then, use login to drop to a shell. This is enough to access the host shell, but since the console doesn’t work nicely, we want to continue to enable SSH.

Once logged in, creating of that file was easy.

[Sir_Goodenough ((SG) WhatAreWeFixing.Today)]

@Etherbrat

Then I searched the community and github. The latter is where I discovered that TEMPer in github is unmaintained

There is a core integration for this. What you state above is about a gitHub integration that is likely abandoned because there is one in core now.
Make sure you are using the core one before you put an issue in to HA core…