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# Go Hass Agent
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A [Home Assistant](https://www.home-assistant.io/), [native app
integration](https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/api/native-app-integration)
for desktop/laptop devices.
## 🎉 Features
This app will add some sensors to a Home Assistant instance:
- Device location.
- Current active application and list of running applications.
- Battery status (for example, laptop battery and any peripherals).
- Network status (for example, network connection status, internal and external
IP addresses and Wi-Fi details where relevant).
- Memory and swap usage (total/free/used).
- Disk usage.
- Load Averages.
- Uptime.
- Power profile.
- Screen lock.
- Problems detected by ABRT.
- User-specified [script](docs/scripts.md) output.
A full list of sensors can be found in the [docs](docs/sensors.md).
The code can be extended to add additional sensors. See the [development docs](docs/development.md)
for details.
## 🤔 Use-cases
As examples of some of the things that can be done with the data published by this app:
- Change your lighting depending on:
- What active/running apps are on your laptop/desktop. For example, you could set your lights dim or activate a scene
when you are gaming.
- Whether your screen is locked or the device is shutdown/suspended.
- With your laptop plugged into a smart plug that is also controlled by Home
Assistant, turn the smart plug on/off based on the battery charge. This can
force a full charge/discharge cycle of the battery, extending its life over
leaving it constantly charged.
- Like on mobile devices, create automations based on the location of your
laptop running this app.
- Monitor network the data transfer amount from the device, useful where network
data might be capped.
- Monitor CPU load, disk usage and any temperature sensors emitted from the device.
- Receive notifications from Home Assistant on your desktop/laptop. Potentially
based on or utilising any of the data above.
See also the [FAQ](docs/faq.md).
## 🤝 Compatibility
Currently, only Linux is supported. Though the code is designed to be extensible
to other operating systems. See development information in the
[docs](docs/README.md) for details on how to extend for other operating systems.
## ⬇️ Installation
### Packages
Head over to the [releases](https://github.com/joshuar/go-hass-agent/releases)
page and download the appropriate package for your operating system and/or
distribution:
- For **Fedora**, use the `.rpm`.
- For **Ubuntu**, use the `.deb`.
- For **Debian**, use the `.tar.xz`.
- For **Arch**, use the `.tar.zst`.
For other distributions not listed above, you can try the binary, or build it
yourself from source (see development [docs](docs/README.md)). Note that while
Go is known for statically compiled binaries that "run anywhere", the Fyne UI
toolkit used by Go Hass Agent makes use of shared libraries that may need to
be installed as well.
Package signatures can be verified with
[cosign](https://github.com/sigstore/cosign). To verify a package, you'll need
the [cosign.pub](cosign.pub) public key and the `.sig` file (downloaded from
[releases](https://github.com/joshuar/go-hass-agent/releases)) that matches the
package you want to verify. To verify a package, a command similar to the
following for the `rpm` package can be used:
```shell
cosign verify-blob --key cosign.pub --signature go-hass-agent-*.rpm.sig go-hass-agent-*.rpm
```
### Container
Container images are available on
[ghcr.io](https://github.com/joshuar/go-hass-agent/pkgs/container/go-hass-agent).
Note that it is recommended to use an image tagged with the latest release version over
the latest container image, which might be unstable.
## 🖱️ Usage
Go Hass Agent runs as a tray icon by default. It is operating system,
distribution and desktop-environment agnostic and should manifest itself in any
tray of any desktop environment.
### First-run
On first-run, Go Hass Agent will display a window where you will need to enter
some details, so it can register itself with a Home Assistant instance to be
able to report sensors and receive notifications.
![Registration Window](assets/screenshots/registration.png)
**You will need:**
- A long-lived access token. You can generate one on your [account profile
page](https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/authentication/#your-account-profile).
- The web address (URL) on which a Home Assistant instance can be found.
- Go Hass Agent will try to auto-detect this for you, and you can select it in
the _Auto-discovered servers_ list. Otherwise, you will need to select _Use
Custom Server?_, and enter the details manually in _Manual Server Entry_.
When you have entered all the details, click **Submit** and the agent should
start running and reporting sensors to the Home Assistant instance.
### Running “Headless”
Go Hass Agent will automatically detect if there is no GUI available and run in
a “headless” mode with no UI. Registration will need to be completed manually as
a first step in such environments.
You can register Go Hass Agent on the command-line with by
running:
```shell
go-hass-agent --terminal register --token _TOKEN_ --server _URL_
```
You will need to provide a long-lived token `_TOKEN_` and the URL of your Home
Assistant instance, `_URL_`.
Once registered, running Go Hass Agent again with no options should start
tracking and sending sensor data to Home Assistant.
If desired, headless mode can be forced, even in graphical environments, by
specifying the `--terminal` command-line option.
### Running in a container
There is rough support for running Go Hass Agent within a container. Pre-built
images [are available](https://github.com/joshuar/go-hass-agent/pkgs/container/go-hass-agent).
To register the agent running in a container, run the following:
```shell
podman run --rm --hostname go-hass-agent-container \
--network host \
--volume go-hass-agent:/home/gouser \
ghcr.io/joshuar/go-hass-agent register \
--server https://some.server:port \
--token longlivedtoken
```
Adjust the `--server` and `--token` values as appropriate.
Once registered, run the agent with:
```shell
podman run --hostname go-hass-agent-container --name my-go-hass-agent \
--network host \
--volume go-hass-agent:/home/gouser \
--volume /proc:/host/proc:ro --volume /sys:/host/sys:ro \
--volume /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket:/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket:ro \
--volume /run/user/1000/bus:/run/user/1000/bus:ro \
ghcr.io/joshuar/go-hass-agent
```
Change the value passed to `--name` to a unique name for your running container
and `--hostname` for the hostname that will be presented to Home Assistant
during registration.
All the other volume mounts are optional, but functionality and the sensors
reported will be severely limited without them.
### Regular Usage
When running, Go Hass Agent will appear as a device under the [Mobile
App](https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/mobile_app) integration in your
Home Assistant instance. It should also report a list of sensors/entities you
can use in any automations, scripts, dashboards and other parts of Home
Assistant.
## 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Contributing
### Development
I would welcome your contribution! If you find any improvement or issue you want
to fix, feel free to send a pull request!
Some documentation for development can be found in
the [docs](docs/README.md). There is information for developing
Go Hass Agent for different operating systems as well as adding additional
sensors. This might help anyone to look to contribute, extend or fork this tool.
### Translations
While this application does not have many points where text is displayed to
the end user (logging aside), translation is supported through the `language`
and `message` packages that are part of
[golang.org/x/text](https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/text).
I would welcome pull requests for translations!
## 🙌 Acknowledgements
The app icon is taken from the [Home Assistant
project](https://github.com/home-assistant/assets).
## License
[MIT](LICENSE)