Toggle a home assistant input using a USB gamepad.
It uses evdev to read Linux input devices, and homeassistant-api to toggle a group of lights in home assistant.
Build the docker image
docker build . -t homeassistant-gamepad
Create and set your access token, from your Profile -> Long-Lived Access Tokens -> Create Token
export HOMEASSISTANT_TOKEN=...
Run the docker image
docker run --rm -it \
--device=/dev/input/event0 \
-e HOMEASSISTANT_TOKEN \
-e HOMEASSISTANT_URL=http://192.168.1.8:8123/api \
-e HOMEASSISTANT_ENTITY=light.office_lights \
-e INPUT_DEVICE=/dev/input/event0 \
homeassistant-gamepad
Note: If you have exported the environment variable
HOMEASSISTANT_TOKENfor your current user, and are usingsudoto run docker, you may need to preserve environment variables withsudo -E.
version: '3'
services:
homeassistant-gamepad:
build: .
devices:
- /dev/input/event0
restart: unless-stopped
environment:
- HOMEASSISTANT_TOKEN
- HOMEASSISTANT_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8123/api
- HOMEASSISTANT_ENTITY=light.office_lights
- INPUT_DEVICE=/dev/input/event0
This assumes you have set HOMEASSISTANT_TOKEN in your current shell.
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