Home Assistant Desktop Reicever

The goal is to provide a

home-assistant-desktop-reciever is a small autostarting daemon that runs in the user session of a linux desktop.

Currently it only uses the rest APIs of HA, so no changes are needed there.

Whilst most of this would be possible with a lot of manual setup via the command line switches and ssh, this is easier to set up, more extensible and more secure.

It should work on all standard Linux desktops; GNOME, KDE/Plasma, XFCE, whatever that follows the standards

Forked from: davidedmundson/home-assistant-desktop-receiver

What it provides

• Notification receiver. HA notifications appear as normal desktop notifications

• A binary "sensor" of whether the computer is not just on, but actually active (not locked and activity within the past n minutes). Useful for automation

• A switch for dpms (screen management)

Non-goals

I don't intend for this to be a GUI desktop client. There's not a lot of code overlap

Setup

Create notify device in Home Asssitant:

notify:
    - name: Linux-Desktop
      platform: rest
      resource: http://IPADDRESS/FQDN:8124/notifications

Put the ip/fqdn of the computer where you want to recvieve the notifications/run the python script. Be careful to no end the "resource:" with a /, it will not work as it is right now.

Run the python scripts for testing

Install

$ sudo ./setup.py install
running install
running build
running build_scripts
running install_scripts
copying build/scripts-3.8/home-assistant-desktop-receiver -> /usr/local/bin
changing mode of /usr/local/bin/home-assistant-desktop-receiver to 775
running install_data
copying data/home-assistant-desktop-receiver.desktop -> /etc/xdg/autostart
running install_egg_info
Writing /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/home_assistant_desktop_receiver-0.1.egg-info

Testing

For testing go to Developer tools, services, go to YAML mode.

service: notify.linux_desktop
data:
  message: Test messages

Plans

• implement systemtray icon

• See if there's a way to have more feature rich notification with RESTful notification, maybe using post and json. Ex. images etc..

• Replace with MQTT

• Updating HA state directly via web API (means we need to know HA location and auth)

• Make it discoverable on the HA side.