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Control components on Home Assistant directly from ESP8266. This is an Arduino Library that can be used in various projects without the requirement of setup of a MQTT sensor + automation on HA. This uses RESTful API commands.
An Arduino library to talk to Home Assistant using Rest API made for ESP8266.
sendGetHA(URL,Component) and provide feedback.To use in your sketch include these lines.
#include <HARestAPI.h>
Declare clients before setup(). If using HA with no SSL declare WiFiClient and pass it to HARestAPI.
WiFiClient client;
HARestAPI ha(client);
If using HA with SSL declare WiFiClientSecure and pass it to HARestAPI.
WiFiClientSecure sclient;
HARestAPI ha(sclient);
In setup make sure to setup IP and port of HA server. Default is 8123 and if using SSL 443.
const char* ha_ip = "192.168.0.xxx";
uint16_t ha_port = 8123;
const char* ha_pwd = "HA_PASSWORD"; //long-lived password. On HA, Profile > Long-Lived Access Tokens > Create Token
ha.setHAServer(ha_ip, ha_port);
ha.setHAPassword(ha_pwd);
// Optional, but can use SHA1 fingerprint to confirm one is connecting to
String fingerprint = "35 85 74 EF 67 35 A7 CE 40 69 50 F3 C0 F6 80 CF 80 3B 2E 19";
ha.setFingerPrint(fingerprint);
All the commands below do the same thing
Home Assistant
URL: "/api/services/light/turn_on" (HA -> Developer Tools -> Services -> Service)
Component: "light.bedroom_light" (HA -> Developer Tools -> Services -> Entity)
// 1. Send custom DATA to HA
ha.sendCustomHAData("/api/services/light/turn_on", "{\"entity_id\":\"light.bedroom_light\"}");
// 2. Set component and send light to HA // Will set tmpURL to "/api/services/light/turn_on"
ha.setComponent("light.bedroom_light");
ha.sendHALight(true);
// 3. Set light on/off as bool and component is 2nd input, Send Light to HA
// Will set tmpURL to "/api/services/light/turn_on"
ha.sendHALight(true, "light.bedroom_light");
// 4. Set component and URL is 2nd input, Send custom URL to HA
ha.setComponent("light.bedroom_light");
ha.sendHAURL("/api/services/light/turn_on");
// 5. Set URL and Send component to HA
ha.setURL("/api/services/light/turn_on");
ha.sendHAComponent("light.bedroom_light");
// 6. Set URL 1st argument, component 2nd, send to HA
ha.sendHAComponent("/api/services/light/turn_on", "light.bedroom_light");
// 7. Set URL , Set component, send to HA
ha.setURL("/api/services/light/turn_on");
ha.setComponent("light.bedroom_light");
ha.sendHA();