README.md

Gnome Shell Extension for Home Assistant

A Gnome Shell Extension to interact with the Home Assistant API.

You can activate scenes and toggle lights and switches!

If you are on GitHub, this is a mirror of gitlab.com/schlauerlauer/gnome-shell-home-assistant.

Functionality

• Toggle light and switch entities on and off from the gnome status bar
• Activate Scenes
• Add and remove entities in the settings

Usage

• Open settings and insert your Home Assistant URL
• Create a long lived access token in Home Assistant and paste in Settings.
• Click "Save & Test Connection"
• Select Entities in the "Available Entities" Panel and click "Add Entities"

Installation

Install from extensions.gnome.org

Extension pending

Manual install

1. git clone https://gitlab.com/schlauerlauer/gnome-shell-home-assistant.git
2. cd gnome-shell-home-assistant/[email protected]
3. zip -r [email protected] . --exclude=.git/\* --exclude=*.sh --exclude=*.zip
4. gnome-extensions install [email protected]
5. gnome-extensions enable [email protected]
6. Reload Gnome Shell
   • On X11 press Alt+F2, Type in r and press Enter
   • On Wayland Log out & Log in

Todos

see Issues

• Subscribe to custom events
• Add configurable services

Feedback

Feel free to send feature requests and open issues