Hi I’m very new to github repository. I want to ask how can I add them into hassio add on? I’m looking at adding xiaomi_aqara repository. Tried putting the link but it won’t work.
Wanted to get wattage readings on my board but I’m not sure how to do it.
Hello merveet, welcome to the forum. Have just read your post, and do not understand the question. You want to get your Xiaomi wall switch displayed in HA to control it? There are, to my knowledge, several ways of doing this. If you use the Xiaomi Gateway, here is the way …
https://www.home-assistant.io/components/xiaomi_aqara/
Many forum members do not use the Xiaomi Gateway but extra hardware. Take a look at “Conbee / deConz” or “Zigbee2mqtt”. This controls the Xiaomi devices locally. And some additional information and functions of switches and sensors are available
Hi VolkerKa, so sorry i think i wasn’t clear enough. At the moment I manage to get my xiaomi gateway hub to display all my switch on the dashboard. However, the xiaomi wall siwtch actually has additional infomation that can be extracted. Example, current and wattage.
So I was wondering how can I go about getting those infomation?
Also my other question is, in HASS.IO i understand that you can add external github repository. However, I’m not sure where can I find the link to add for this repository. Hope someone is able to guide me in this!
Ah i understand. Sorry I can not help you unfortunately.
Can you see this information in de developer tools - states - attributes?
I have no idea what you are talking about. The only thing I can think of is adding github repositories to HACS. Is that what you mean?
No because that is not an add-on repository. It is the home assistant code repository.
Sorry i’m pretty new to all these. What is HACS?
Oh then how can i utilise this scripts? Any suggestions?
OK I am understanding now what you are after (I think).
xiaomi-aqara is part of home assistant. If you have home assistant installed, it is already included.
You perhaps missed this https://www.home-assistant.io/getting-started/configuration/
and
Oh and hacs is a community repository of integrations, lovelace cards, themes, appdaemon apps and python scripts. See https://github.com/custom-components/hacs
At first I thought you were asking how to add a repository to hacs, but you weren’t. It is worth knowing about though.
Sorry correct me if I’m wrong. So you are saying
HASSIO is different from HACS?
I’ve installed hassio based on this instructions.
So I setup everything inside here. Also for the xiaomi_aqara I’ve alrdy integrated it in my Hassio. Just that I wanted to get the power readings which I see that the script in switch.py is doing so. Which was why I started exploring and ask how to integrate the python scripts in my Hassio?
yes
As I read the source, that should appear as an attribute in the switch entity. Take a look at the states page in dev tools.
Able to share with me more about the differences and how to install HACS?
Alright will take a look at the states can I check what should I be looking out for?
hassio is an implementation of home assistant running in docker and providing addons for additional software like (eg) a mqtt broker, an external database, snips.ai - these are things that are not inherently part of home assistant but are useful to have - some examples here Home Assistant Add-ons - Home Assistant and the page after it.
hacs enables you to add community developed integrations, lovelace cards, themes, appdaemon apps and python scripts. These extend home assistant.
No, I already pointed you to that.
look at the attributes for your switch. Again I can point you to the documentation Developer tools - Home Assistant
thanks this helps a lot.
Oh i might have overlooked on it while I was still confused about HACS, HASSIO and Home assistant terms.
Thanks!
So just to get it right once again… (In case I’m still wrong)
Home assistant is the platform, while HASS.IO is just an interface for home assistant. And with HACS it allows further integration of community based projects to be extended onto home assistant.
So for me to utilise the python made scripts, I would have to install HACS in order of me to incoprate them into my HASSIO right?
So
