HomeAssitant-Rainmeter

Set up

Head over to your hassio server and create an api token by going to your user profile
Put the .dll in your plugins folder

Add this measure to your raimeter skin and fill in your values

[hassio]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=#SETTINGSPATH#\Plugins\HomeAssitantPlugin.dll
authKey=<api-key-from-hassio>
server=<ip> #server ip
ssl=false

Useage

Configuration

Varible	Description	Default
`authKey`	Auth token from home assistant	`<empty>`
`server`	Hassio server IP or domain name (192.168... or exampledoamin.com)	`homeassistant.local`
`path`(optional)	Attribute path from entity	`"state"`
`ssl`(optional)	Should the api use ssl or not(true/false)	`false`
`port`(optional)	Port of the hassio server. Use -1 to denote no port and use the default web ports instead(443/80)	`-1`
`isInt`(optional)	Set to `true` if the attribute or state you are pulling is a number	`false`
`entityId`(optional)	Entity from home assistant to pull data from	`<empty>`

Showing data

To display data simply do this(if you are trying to use a meter that requires numerical data ensure isInt is true):

#note this is for an ssl configuration
[hassio]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=SETTINGSPATH\Plugins\HomeAssitantPlugin.dll
authKey=<api-key>
server=<my-domain name>
ssl=true
port=443
entityId=light.other_lamp
isInt=false
[example]
Meter=String
MeasureName=hassio
X=400
Y=70
FontSize=30
StringAlign=Center
Text=Entity: %1

Path

To access attributes of an entity you have to specify the path within the json.

Example:

Say we have the following json of a weather object:

{
    "entity_id": "weather.home",
    "state": "sunny",
    "attributes": {
        "temperature": 75,
        "temperature_unit": "°F",
        "humidity": 65,
        "pressure": 30.03,
        "pressure_unit": "inHg",
        "wind_bearing": 202.7,
        "wind_speed": 3.6,
        "wind_speed_unit": "mph",
        "visibility_unit": "mi",
        "precipitation_unit": "in",
        "forecast": [
            {
                "condition": "sunny",
                "datetime": "2022-08-25T16:00:00+00:00",
                "wind_bearing": 219.9,
                "temperature": 87,
                "templow": 65,
                "wind_speed": 8.51,
                "precipitation": 0.0
            },
            {
                "condition": "cloudy",
                "datetime": "2022-08-26T16:00:00+00:00",
                "wind_bearing": 264.2,
                "temperature": 83,
                "templow": 69,
                "wind_speed": 6.03,
                "precipitation": 0.11
            },
            {
                "condition": "sunny",
                "datetime": "2022-08-27T16:00:00+00:00",
                "wind_bearing": 56.4,
                "temperature": 83,
                "templow": 65,
                "wind_speed": 7.83,
                "precipitation": 0.0
            },
            {
                "condition": "cloudy",
                "datetime": "2022-08-28T16:00:00+00:00",
                "wind_bearing": 177.2,
                "temperature": 88,
                "templow": 69,
                "wind_speed": 6.71,
                "precipitation": 0.0
            },
            {
                "condition": "rainy",
                "datetime": "2022-08-29T16:00:00+00:00",
                "wind_bearing": 239.6,
                "temperature": 92,
                "templow": 76,
                "wind_speed": 7.39,
                "precipitation": 0.76
            }
        ],
        "attribution": "Weather forecast from met.no, delivered by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.",
        "friendly_name": "Forecast Home"
    },
    "last_changed": "2022-08-24T23:53:34.080002+00:00",
    "last_updated": "2022-08-25T01:55:34.989714+00:00",
    "context": {
        "id": "01GB9BCFED1JW1M8RCR5525Y2C",
        "parent_id": null,
        "user_id": null
    }
}

Note: to find the jsons of other entitys you may have,go to http://homeassistant:8123/developer-tools/state, any value you find in there will be prefaced by attributes. in the path. The plugin also outputs the json hassio gives to the rainmeter log file.

If we wanted the forcast for 2023-01-22 the path would be the following, attributes.forcast.1.condition. If we wanted the next day, we would change the index from 1 to 2. By default path is set to "state" so it automatically returns the state of the entity

Calling services

In order to call a service use bangs.

[!CommandMeasure hassio "<domain>!<service>!<service data>"]

For example, if we wanted to toggle a switch named fan we would use the following bang:

[!CommandMeasure hassio "switch!toggle!{'entity_id': 'switch.fan'}"]

Note: Single quotes MUST be used in the json for service data

If you are unsure about how to structure the service data json go to http://homeassistant:8123/developer-tools/service, build your service using the ui and then go to yaml mode and base the json off that.

For example, take this service

service: light.turn_on
data:
  rgb_color:
    - 225
    - 0
    - 0
  transition: 24
target:
  entity_id: light.lamp

The json would be:

{
'rgb_color':[225,0,0],
'transition': 24,
'entity_id':'light.lamp'
}

And the bang would be:

LeftMouseUpAction=[!CommandMeasure hassio "light!turn_on!{'rgb_color':[255,0,0],'transition': 2,'entity_id':'light.lamp'}"]

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