setup-homeassistant

Setup a Home Assistant instance in your GitHub action flow.

This can be usefull for any number of reasons, but espesially for testing where you need to test against a running installation of Home Assistant.

During the run it will validate the configuration, and create a LLAT that can be used for authentication.

Usage

- name: 👷 Setup Home Assistant
  id: homeassistant
  uses: ludeeus/setup-homeassistant@main

When this step is complete you will have access to these variables you can use later in your job.

variable	description
`${{ steps.homeassistant.outputs.url }}`	This is the URL to reach the instance.
`${{ steps.homeassistant.outputs.token }}`	This is a LLAT you can use for autenticated requests.
`${{ steps.homeassistant.outputs.containername }}`	This is the name of the container that is running, can be usefull if you need to query the logs.

Inputs

Inputs for actions are defined with the with: key for the stage configuration, these inputs are valid:

input	description
`tag`	This can be any valid tag for a `homeassistant/home-assistant` container, the default is `dev`.
`config-dir`	Relative path to the configuration directory you want to use, defaults to the root of the repo.
`retry-limit`	How many times/seconds the action will wait for Home Assistant to start before giving up, `360` is the default.

Full usage example

name: home-assistant-check

on:
  pull_request:
    branches: 
    - main
  push:
    branches: 
    - main

jobs:
  check:
    name: With config-dir
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    strategy:
      matrix:
        channel:
          - stable
          - beta
          - dev
    steps:
      - name: 📥 Check out the repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: 👷 Setup Home Assistant
        id: homeassistant
        uses: ludeeus/setup-homeassistant@main
        with:
          tag: ${{ matrix.channel }}
          config-dir: test_configuration

      - name: ✅ Verify API Access
        run: | 
          curl -sSL -f -X GET \
            -H "Authorization: Bearer ${{ steps.homeassistant.outputs.token }}" \
            -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
            ${{ steps.homeassistant.outputs.url }}/api/states

      - name: 📜 Get logs
        run: docker logs ${{ steps.homeassistant.outputs.containername }}