[feature request] send ipmi commands from HA

[corgan2222]

Hello,

is there a way to send ipmi commands?
I have on server, where I switched the default server fans to silent noctua. But these needs higher rpm. So on each server restart I have to send

ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.2.2 -U root -P $pw raw 0x30 0x30 0x01 0x00
so activate the manual fan control

and
ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.2.2 -U root -P $pw raw 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x64
to set all fans to 100%.

and my unraid server sometimes gets a kernel panic, where I have to send a
ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.2.241 -U admin -P $pw power cycle
to reboot.

atm I have to do this manually. But it would be awesome to use these commands in HA automations.

Thanks in advance!
Greetz Stefan

[ateodorescu]

@corgan2222 This is already supported. Check out this one ateodorescu/home-assistant-ipmi#16
Sorry for the lack of documentation on the addon.
Cheers,
Adrian

[corgan2222]

Hey Adrian,

fantastic!
As an update to the answer from ateodorescu/home-assistant-ipmi#16, the rest commands in HA don't need to be manually url-encoded if the content_type is set to "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".

Here is my config from the configuration.yaml

192.168.2.130 is the IP of my HA

rest_command:
  pf_enable_fan_rpm_cooling:
    url: "http://192.168.2.130:9595/command?params=-I lanplus -H 192.168.2.2 -U root -P password raw 0x30 0x30 0x01 0x00"
    method: put
    content_type: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

  pf_set_fan_rpm_100:
    url: "http://192.168.2.130:9595/command?params=-I lanplus -H 192.168.2.2 -U root -P password raw 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x64"
    method: put
    content_type: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

  pf_set_fan_rpm_80:
    url: "http://192.168.2.130:9595/command?params=-I lanplus -H 192.168.2.2 -U root -P password raw 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x50"
    method: put
    content_type: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

  pf_set_fan_rpm_50:
    url: "http://192.168.2.130:9595/command?params=-I lanplus -H 192.168.2.2 -U root -P password raw 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x32"
    method: put
    content_type: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

  unraid_power_cycle:
    url: "http://192.168.2.130:9595/command?params=-I lanplus -H 192.168.2.241 -U admin -P password power cycle"
    method: put
    content_type: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

test the service in the dev tools:

Loveace Implementation: example with Grid Card:

square: true
type: grid
cards:
  - show_name: true
    show_icon: true
    type: button
    tap_action:
      action: call-service
      service: rest_command.pf_enable_fan_rpm_cooling
      target: {}
    name: enable pfsense FAN control
    icon: mdi:fan
    show_state: false
  - show_name: true
    show_icon: true
    type: button
    tap_action:
      action: call-service
      service: rest_command.pf_set_fan_rpm_100
      target: {}
    name: pfsense FAN 100%
    icon: mdi:fan-chevron-up
columns: 1

Now we only have to fix #10 (comment) so that I read the fan speed. :)