Predbat Home Assistant Add-on
This add-on can be used with Home Assistant to run Predbat without AppDaemon or even outside Home Assistant
For Predbat documention see: https://springfall2008.github.io/batpred/
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- Go to settings, add-ons, add-on store, custom repositories
- add 'https://github.com/springfall2008/predbat_addon' as a new reposityr
- Click out of the repository list and refresh the page
- Scroll down and find Predbat, click on it and click 'Install'
- Once installed you can click start, it will now download the latest Predbat and start it running
- Predbat will error out as you have a Template configuration
- Navigate to '/addon_configs/6adb4f0d_predbat' directory in Home Assistant file editor or via a Samba/SSH mount
- Edit/replace the apps.yaml with the correct completed one as per Predbat documentation
- Click restart on the add-on if need be (it might start automatically anyhow)
Please note the predbat.log will be in this addon_configs directory also.
Do not run this at the same time as the appdaemon-predbat or Predbat within AppDaemon (stop them first and remember to only have one on auto-start)
Predbat can be run on a seperate machine also, you will need a MacOS with Python3, a Linux box (e.g. Debian) or Windows with the Linux subsystem (not yet tested but should work).
- Download the files from rootfs directory (https://github.com/springfall2008/predbat_addon/tree/main/predbat/rootfs) into their own directory on your machine
- Make sure your python environment has the dependancies required installed (https://github.com/springfall2008/predbat_addon/blob/main/predbat/requirements.txt)
- Launch run.csh (you might want to make this startup from boot if you want to keep Predbat running). This will download Predbat for the first time and then fail.
- Edit apps.yaml (or copy your previous version from an old installs inside HA) as per the Predbat documentation
- Add ha_url / ha_key settings into apps.yaml.
- The ha_url must be your Home Assistant machine e.g. http://homeassistant.local:8123
- The ha_key must be the persistant key you can generate in Home Assistant in your user/security section
- Kill and re-start run.csh and it should run as normal. If you get errors about missing Python packages then install them.
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Download the contents of 'https://github.com/springfall2008/predbat_addon/tree/main/predbat' onto your machine
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You should see Dockerfile.standalone and rootfs directories
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Download apps.yaml from Predbat repo (https://github.com/springfall2008/batpred/blob/main/apps/predbat/config/apps.yaml), place it into config directory somewhere in the host machine and edit it as per the Predbat documentation. this config directory will be mounted on the docker container.
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Add ha_url / ha_key settings into apps.yaml.
- The ha_url must be your Home Assistant machine e.g. http://homeassistant.local:8123
- The ha_key must be the persistant key you can generate in Home Assistant in your user/security section
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Build your docker as follows:
docker build . -t predbat -f ./Dockerfile.standalone
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Modify the docker compose file compose-standalone.yaml to add the config directory by replacing the string "/wkspace/homeassistant/predbat"
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Run container:
docker-compose -f compose-standalone.yaml up
Look into the docker under /config/predbat.log for the logfiles
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