Introduction to Poeschl Home Assistant Supervisor Add-ons
The Poeschl Home Assistant Supervisor Add-ons represent a collection of tools designed to enhance and extend the capabilities of the Home Assistant system, a popular platform for home automation known previously as Hass.io. These add-ons make it easier for users to create more personalized, efficient, and secure home automation setups.
Current Repository Status
Recently, the add-ons have been moved to a dedicated organization to streamline maintenance and enable contributors to manage specific add-ons. For future updates, users are encouraged to transition to the new repository available at Poeschl-HomeAssistant-Addons.
Available Add-ons
Here is a glimpse into some of the exciting tools available:
- ICantBelieveItsNotValetudo: This add-on serves as a Valetudo Companion for generating robot vacuum maps.
- MaryTTS: Provides a local Text-To-Speech system, adding voice capabilities to your Home Assistant setup.
- PicoTTS: Offers a text-to-speech voice synthesizer from SVox, embedded in Android's AOSP.
- pigpio: Facilitates LED control for Raspberry Pi devices, enhancing home lighting solutions.
- MPD: A minimalist media player featuring a simple web interface.
- valetudo-mapper: Complements Valetudo RE with map generation functions.
- ympd: Provides a lightweight web interface for MPD music server control.
- Git Exporter: Allows exporting of Home Assistant configurations to a Git repository, ensuring sensitive information remains secure.
- Syncthing: Offers decentralized file synchronization focusing on privacy.
- rsync: Automates folder synchronization from Home Assistant to other machines using rsync and SSH.
- rsync-local: Designed for syncing folders to local devices like USB drives.
- VNC Viewer: Integrates VNC displays into Home Assistant.
- Mopidy: Another web interface media player option.
- Asterisk: An open-source framework for setting up communication applications.
- OWASP Juice Shop: A deliberately insecure platform present as a security testing tool.
Norably, some add-ons are experimental, meaning they might not function as expected, and users are advised to proceed with caution. Additionally, deprecated add-ons will no longer receive updates but are available for forking by interested developers.
Deprecated Add-ons
These add-ons are no longer active:
- Docker Container Stats: Provided lightweight monitoring for docker containers.
- OWASP ZAP: Offered a security testing tool with man-in-the-middle functionality.
- mitmproxy: Acted as a straightforward man-in-the-middle proxy for network request tracing.
Installation Guide
To install these add-ons, users need to link the repository to their Home Assistant instance. This can be done directly by adding the repository URL to the Home Assistant add-on store:
https://github.com/Poeschl/Hassio-Addons
Alternatively, users can access the add-ons through the supervisor add-on store in Home Assistant. Function-specific add-on installation buttons are also available in the README files of each add-on's folder.
Licensing
The add-ons follow the licensing terms of the repository unless specified otherwise.
This collection of add-ons showcases how home automation can be versatile and adaptive to unique user needs, emphasizing ease of use, customization, and security.