HAdashboard in a Python Virtual Environment!!

Published: 18 May 2018
on channel: BurnsHA

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This video is a tutorial on how to setup HAdashboard in a Python Virtual environment!

Here is a link to get you started...

http://appdaemon.readthedocs.io/en/la...

For starters, make sure your system is up to date....

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Next we are ready to setup the python virtual environment....

python -m venv appdaemon
cd appdaemon
source bin/activate
python -m pip install wheel

Now we are ready to install appdaemon...

python3 -m install appdaemon
mkdir conf
cd conf
vi appdaemon.yaml

log:
logfile: /home/adrian/appdaemon/conf/appdaemon.log
errorfile: /home/adrian/appdaemon/conf/aderror.log
appdaemon:
threads: 10
app_dir: /home/adrian/appdaemon/conf/apps
plugins:
HASS:
type: hass
ha_url: http://10.10.10.235:8123
hadashboard:
dash_url: http://10.10.10.235:5050
dash_dir: /home/adrian/appdaemon/conf/dashboards

Once thats done, create a couple of folders referenced in the config file...

mkdir apps
mkdir dashboards

Now we are ready to setup a service file for autoboot.....

sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/appdaemon.service

[Unit]
Description=Appdaemon for HASS
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=adrian
ExecStart=/home/adrian/appdaemon/bin/appdaemon -D DEBUG -c "/home/adrian/appdaemon/conf"

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Save that and enabled the service....

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable appdaemon.service
sudo systemctl start appdaemon.service
sudo systemctl status appdaemon.service

Now we are ready to create a test dashboard.....

cd dashboards
vi main.dash

title: Main
widget_dimensions: [170,180]
widget_margins: [15,15]
columns: 11

clock:
widget_type: clock

switch:
widget_type: switch
entity: switch.hasspower
state_text: 1

reload:
widget_type: reload

layout:
clock(4x2), switch(2x2)
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-
reload(1x1)

sudo systemctl restart appdaemon.service

You should be good to go now, you can view the new dashboard by going to...

http://IP.OF.APPDAEMON:5050

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