HOME_ASSISTANT.md

Important

⚠ This is a public archive and the active project has been renamed to NetAlertX and moved: jokob.sk/NetAlertX

• To differentiate from the upstream stale project
• To differentiate from other active forks
• To indicate this is not a Raspberry Pi-specific tool anymore

Overview

PiAlert comes with MQTT support, allowing you to show all detected devices as devices in Home Assistant. It also supplies a collection of stats, such as number of online devices.

⚠ Note

• Please note that discovery takes about ~10s per device.
• Deleting of devices is not handled automatically. Please use MQTT Explorer to delete devices in the broker (Home Assistant), if needed.

🧭 Guide

💡 This guide was tested only with the Mosquitto MQTT broker

1. Enable Mosquitto MQTT in Home Assistant by following the documentation

2. Configure a user name and password on your broker.

3. Note down the following details that you will need to configure PiAlert:

   • MQTT host url (usually your Home Assistant IP)
   • MQTT broker port
   • User
   • Password

4. Open the PiAlert > Settings > MQTT settings group

   • Enable MQTT
   • Fill in the details from above
   • Fill in remaining settings as per description

📷 Screenshots