Home Assistant Server Sent Events

Note

This doesn't work any longer as the usage of api_password in requests in Home Assistant is deprecated.

Home Assistant ships its own very nice web frontend. This prototype shows an option to display values without the possibility of interacting with Home Assistant by the user.

A requirement on the client-side is existing support for the EventSource interface. This means that not all browsers are supported.

Installation

It's assumed that your Home Assistant installation is ready before cloning this repository. Change to your local Home Assistant configuration folder .homeassistant and clone this repository.

$ git clone https://github.com/fabaff/home-assistant-sse.git

In the folder www you will find an index.html file and the folder that contains the CSS file.

Open the index.html file and include the entities you want to show on the page in the entities array. Check the "Developer tools" of Home Assistant to retrieve the entity ID. Please replace the periods (dots) with undersores in the entities.

var entities = ['sensor_cpu',
                'sensor_time',
                'binary_sensor_printer',
                'sensor_time_beat',
                'sun_sun'
                ];

Also set the API password used by your Home Assistant installation.

var source = new EventSource("/api/stream?api_password=YOUR_PASSWORD");

Launch your Home Assistant instance.

$ hass

Now the web site is available at http://[your_hass_host]:8123/local/index.html

Screenshot

License

home-assistant-sse is licensed under MIT, for more details check LICENSE.