Gome-Assistant

Write strongly typed Home Assistant automations in Go!

Disclaimer

Gome-Assistant is a new library, and I'm opening it up early to get some user feedback on the API and help shape the direction. I plan for it to grow to cover all Home Assistant use cases, services, and event types. So it's possible that breaking changes will happen before v1.0.0!

Quick Start

Installation

go get saml.dev/gome-assistant

Write your automations

Check out example/example.go for an example of the 3 types of automations — schedules, entity listeners, and event listeners.

ℹ️ Instead of copying and pasting, try typing it yourself to see how autocomplete guides you through the setup using a builder pattern.

Run your code

Keeping with the simplicity that Go is famous for, you don't need a specific environment or docker container to run Gome-Assistant. You just write and run your code like any other Go binary. So once you build your code, you can run it however you like — using screen or tmux, a cron job, a linux service, or wrap it up in a docker container if you like!

❗ No promises, but I may provide a Docker image with file watching to automatically restart gome-assistant, to make it easier to use gome-assistant on a fully managed Home Assistant installation.

gome-assistant Concepts

Overview

The general flow is

1. Create your app
2. Register automations
3. Start app

import ga "saml.dev/gome-assistant"

// replace with IP and port of your Home Assistant installation
app, err := ga.NewApp("0.0.0.0:8123")

// create automations here (see next sections)

// register automations
app.RegisterSchedules(...)
app.RegisterEntityListeners(...)
app.RegisterEventListeners(...)
app.RegisterIntervals(...)

app.Start()

A full reference is available on pkg.go.dev, but all you need to know to get started are the four types of automations in gome-assistant.

• Daily Schedules
• Entity Listeners
• Event Listeners
• Intervals

Daily Schedule

Daily Schedules run at a specific time each day.

_7pm := ga.NewDailySchedule().Call(myFunc).At("19:00").Build()

Schedules can also be run at sunrise or sunset, with an optional offset.

// 30 mins before sunrise
sunrise := ga.NewDailySchedule().Call(myFunc).Sunrise(app, "-30m").Build()
// at sunset
sunset := ga.NewDailySchedule().Call(myFunc).Sunset().Build()

Daily schedules have other functions to change the behavior.

Function	Info
ExceptionDates(t time.Time, ...time.Time)	Skip the schedule on the given date(s). Functions like a blocklist. Cannot be combined with OnlyOnDates.
OnlyOnDates(t time.Time, ...time.Time)	Run only on the given date(s). Functions like an allowlist. Cannot be combined with ExceptionDates.

Schedule Callback function

The function passed to .Call() must take

• *ga.Service used to call home assistant services
• *ga.State used to retrieve state from home assistant

func myFunc(se *ga.Service, st *ga.State) {
  // ...
}

Entity Listener

Entity Listeners are used to respond to entities changing state. The simplest entity listener looks like:

etl := ga.NewEntityListener().EntityIds("binary_sensor.front_door").Call(myFunc).Build()

Entity listeners have other functions to change the behavior.

Function	Info
ToState("on")	Function only called if new state matches argument.
FromState("on")	Function only called if old state matches argument.
Throttle("30s")	Minimum time between function calls.
Duration("30s")	Requires ToState(). Sets how long the entity must be in the state before running your function.
OnlyAfter("03:00")	Only run your function after a specified time of day.
OnlyBefore("03:00")	Only run your function before a specified time of day.
OnlyBetween("03:00", "14:00")	Only run your function between two specified times of day.
ExceptionDates(time.Time, ...time.Time)	A one time exception on the given date. Time is ignored, applies to whole day. Functions like a "blocklist".
ExceptionRange(time.Time, time.Time)	A one time exception between the two date/times. Both date and time are considered. Functions like a "blocklist".
RunOnStartup()	Run your callback during App.Start().

Entity Listener Callback function

The function passed to .Call() must take

• *ga.Service used to call home assistant services
• *ga.State used to retrieve state from home assistant
• ga.EntityData which is the entity that triggered the listener

func myFunc(se *ga.Service, st *ga.State, e ga.EntityData) {
  // ...
}

Event Listener

Event Listeners are used to respond to entities changing state. The simplest event listener looks like:

evl := ga.NewEntityListener().EntityIds("binary_sensor.front_door").Call(myFunc).Build()

Event listeners have other functions to change the behavior.

Function	Info
Throttle("30s")	Minimum time between function calls.
OnlyAfter("03:00")	Only run after a specified time of day.
OnlyBefore("03:00")	Only run before a specified time of day.
OnlyBetween("03:00", "14:00")	Only run between two specified times of day.
ExceptionDates(time.Time, ...time.Time)	A one time exception on the given date. Time is ignored, applies to whole day.
ExceptionRange(time.Time, time.Time)	A one time exception between the two date/times. Both date and time are considered.

Event Listener Callback function

The function passed to .Call() must take

• *ga.Service used to call home assistant services
• *ga.State used to retrieve state from home assistant
• ga.EventData containing the event data that triggered the listener

func myFunc(se *ga.Service, st *ga.State, ed ga.EventData) {
  // ...
}

Interval

Intervals are used to run a function on an interval.

// run every hour at the 30-minute mark
interval := ga.NewInterval().Call(myFunc).Every("1h").StartingAt("00:30").Build()
// run every 5 minutes between 10am and 5pm
interval = ga.NewInterval().Call(myFunc).Every("5m").StartingAt("10:00").EndingAt("17:00").Build()

Intervals have other functions to change the behavior.

Function	Info
StartingAt(TimeString)	What time the interval begins to run each day.
EndingAt(TimeString)	What time the interval stops running each day.
ExceptionDates(time.Time, ...time.Time)	A one time exception on the given date. Time is ignored, applies to whole day.
ExceptionRange(time.Time, time.Time)	A one time exception between the two date/times. Both date and time are considered.

Interval Callback function

The function passed to .Call() must take

• *ga.Service used to call home assistant services
• *ga.State used to retrieve state from home assistant

func myFunc(se *ga.Service, st *ga.State) {
  // ...
}