Selfhosted @lemmy.world unknowing8343 @discuss.tchncs.de 9 mo. ago

Controlling and monitoring computers (Windows, Linux) from Home Assistant?

There does not seem to exist like a single, complete solution for this that everyone agrees is the way to go... or maybe I did not look hard enough.

How do you do it?

My priorities are:

Top priority

Turn off

Amazing to have

Volume controls
Pause/play

Nice to have

monitoring state (on/off)

I saw that System Bridge exists, and looks almost perfect aside from the fact that is not even in the AUR (outdated) and is not distributed under Chocolatey in Windows... this makes me think that the project is very much not widely used at all.

So, how do you deal with these things?

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System Bridge might just be what you're looking for.
- As I said... I know of its existance but it seems like distribution channels are non-existant, which makes me precautious about using it.
  
  What do you mean by that? There are recent releases on their github.
KDE Connect, not for home assistant, but still an awesome tool
- Can you turn off the computer with KDE Connect?
  
  You can run commands, so systemctl poweroff should work to turn off your computer (on Linux, not sure how KDE Connect works on Windows, but I'd assume there's an equivalent)
Windows only but does pack a pretty nice set of features: https://hassagent.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- Looks good, but seems a bit outdated? Are you using it?
  
  The original dev has gone silent indeed, but a team of volunteers resumed development recently. So I wouldn't call it outdated, but we'll see if they'll keep up the good work for long.
  
  I've been using it for more than a year to automate a few stuff, it's been good for this purpose so yeah I would recommend it :)
Shell Commands are the primary tool I use to go about doing these things. I write the scripts to perform the action(s) desired and drop them on the local PC. The shell commands are then fired off from Home Assistant via SSH (either directly in the HA dashboard a la human interaction or through automations) or via my phone through Tasker or KDE Connect (as mentioned elsewhere.)

The trickiest bit for me was setting the correct environmental variables in the scripts but then it was an excellent learning opportunity! Best of luck OP and let me know if I can provide any more info.
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