[APP][Pro] Home Assistant - Community App

RonnyW
Mon, 31 Oct 2022 20:25:26 +0000
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Home Assistant - Community App

homey.app

Home Assistant Community | Homey

Connect to Home Assistant

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This Homey app adds support for many devices, scripts & scenes of your Home Assistant installation.

Currently the following device types are supported:

Switches

Buttons

Lights

Sensors and Binary Sensors

Media Players

Climate

Presence

Scenes

Scripts

Compound (combined & customizable device)

Services (start via flowss)

Installing / using the app

To use this app, just install it from the Homey app store Home Assistant Community | Homey

There’s no need for configuring things up front, you can start right away by adding your first device, only now you will have to enter your Home Assistant instance’s local IP address, along with the “Longlived token”
→ when you don’t have one, create it by scrolling down at ‘http://your.homeassistant.IPaddress:8123/profile’;

When successfully saved, you can install devices without interruption.
After adding a new device on your HA instance, the entity list in Homey is refreshed instantly and you can directly add your new entity as Homey device.

Device types explained

Switches
Any switch can be paired

Buttons
You can press the button in Homey or react on a HA button press with a flow trigger

Lights
Lights will be paired with their matching capabilities (as available on HA);
this includes: brightness, colour and temperature

Media Players
Media players can be paired, that includes TV sets, satellite / cable settop-boxes, home cinema receivers and more.

Presence
This device represents a device_tracker or person (with assigned device_tracker) entity. You get the current state an an presence alarm, which can be inverted in device settings.

Climate
Contol thermostats, heaters or air conditioner. Change the temperature and mode.
Device dependent modes (fan, preset, swing) can be set using flows cards.

Scenes
Scenes you’ve created in HA are paired as buttons, just press it to start a linked scene

Scripts
Scripts you’ve created in HA are paired as buttons, just press it to start a linked script

Sensors
Sensors are devices which return numeric values, like measuring and metering devices, weather data like rain, wind and such.
Binary Sensors are devices which return an on/off or true/false state, like motion or contact sensors

And a special device:

Compound
Compound is a custom device; in your HA instance, you can create a device which combines any sensors or entities present, which you then can pair with Homey as one device.
There will be examples in this app’s forum topic. See link below.

There’s a little extra you’ll need to do:
If you are using HACS, you can just add this integration to HACS searchig for “homey”.
If not, you can download the files from
https://github.com/RonnyWinkler/homeassistant.homey
and copy/paste them into ‘/config/custom_components/homey/’
You’ll find example files and a how-to in that folder.

Further documentations can be found on my Homepage:

There you can register for a newsletter to get updated when a new blog post is published.
And you can ask for further blog posts about examples, HowTo’s and technical insights

Contributions:
The thanks go to…

Rob Groenendijk and his work on the HA community app this app is based on.

Jeroen Nijssen and…

Peter Dwarswaard for their suport, ideas and app tests.

Help getting this app even better!

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