Windows and macOS have similar clients (Hass.Agent for Windows and Home Assistant for macOS).

I’ve found these kinds of clients useful because I can remotely wake-up or sleep computers, track how long they are turned on for, and automatically pause my lights and music when my webcam turns on.

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    Ooooh! Finally. I have needed something like this to control the volume on my media PC.

    I used to have an automation that detects when my HVAC turns on, and it bumps the volume of whatever I’m playing up a few clicks. Then turns it back down when the HVAC cycle finishes. Super handy due to the crazy loud HVAC in my house.

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    Been using this for several months now and it’s been great. I even set up scripts to set my next boot to be Windows when I know I’ll be gaming with friends using a game on GamePass so it’ll be booted and ready when game night is about to start.

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    I don’t have mqtt in my home, so I assume this would not work for me, even though the computer is connected to the same network as the HA instance is?

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          It does. I use Mosquito but I believe HA has a built in one too. Mosquito was easy enough to set up though.

          Honestly MQTT is like the nervous system of my HA setup. I started using it with Tasmota when I Tasmotised all my cheap WiFi bulbs, then opted for Zigbee2mqtt for my ZigBee setup.

          But I also have things like my bedside clock (an old phone running WallPanel), my doorway tablet (a Nexus 7 running Fully Kiosk Browser), my PC and even my alarm clock app on my phone, all running through MQTT.

          I even had Tasker on my phone communicating with HA via MQTT before I gave up on that. It’s really useful

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    Oh neat!

    I made a custom solution for WOL and remote shutdown using nodered and MQTT, but this is so cleaner than maintaining a custom solution

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        Yeah the nodered flow on the target device is for handling shutdown(sleep) and status reporting back to HomeAssistant, so in HA the computer is a simple switch with on/off states

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    I’m definately going to try this, I was using Hass.Agent before switching to Linux and am looking for someting similar.

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    4 months ago

    Can somebody shed some light on why this doesn’t create a systemd entry? It works when I manually run it specifying the config.yaml file but there are no systemd entries. I’m on Ubuntu desktop.

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    3 months ago

    This is so cool, first MQTT-based sensor I’ve set up. Already had a broker set up with HA, but how can HA automatically discover which topic to listen to, know the vendor name and how to interpret all the data?