Hass-Rs

A simple async Rust client library for interacting with Home Assistant websocket API.

Configure:

hass-rs supports tokio and async-std runtimes, by default it uses async-std, to use tokio change the feature flags in Cargo.toml

with async-std support

[dependencies]
hass-rs = { version = "0.2", features = ["async-std-runtime"] }

with tokio support

[dependencies]
hass-rs = { version = "0.2", features = ["tokio-runtime"] }

Example usage

use env_logger;
use hass_rs::client;
use lazy_static::lazy_static;
use std::env::var;

lazy_static! {
    static ref TOKEN: String =
        var("HASS_TOKEN").expect("please set up the HASS_TOKEN env variable before running this");
}

#[cfg_attr(feature = "async-std-runtime", async_std::main)]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    env_logger::init();

    println!("Creating the Websocket Client and Authenticate the session");
    let mut client = client::connect("localhost", 8123).await?;

    client.auth_with_longlivedtoken(&*TOKEN).await?;
    println!("WebSocket connection and authethication works");

    println!("Get Hass Config");
    match client.get_config().await {
        Ok(v) => println!("{:?}", v),
        Err(err) => println!("Oh no, an error: {}", err),
    }
    Ok(())
}

Test environment

Use docker to easily bootstrap a test environment.

Steps:

• clone the hass_rs github repository
• execute the below command, which runs the docker homeassistant container in background

$ docker run -d --name="home-assistant" -v /PATH_TO_YOUR_CONFIG:/config -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro --net=host homeassistant/home-assistant:stable

• login to Home Assistant web interface: http://localhost:8123/
• go to Profile --> Long-Lived Access Tokens and create a token to be used by hass_rs client
• set the environment variable export HASS_TOKEN=<YOUR_TOKEN_HERE>
• run the tests with cargo test
• run the example scripts: cargo run --example ping or cargo run --example fetch_items or cargo run --example subscribe_event

API reference

• client::connect(host, port) -- establish the websocket connection to Home Assistant server.
• client.auth_with_longlivedtoken(token) - authenticate the session using a long-lived access token.
• client.ping() - can serve as a heartbeat, to ensure the connection is still alive.
• client.subscribe_event(event_name, callback) - subscribe the client to the event bus. the callback is a closure, of type Fn(WSEvent), which is executed every time when a specific event is received.
• client.unsubscribe_event(subscription_id) - unsubscribe the client from the event bus.
• client.get_config() - it gets a dump of the current config in Home Assistant.
• client.get_states() - it gets a dump of all the current states in Home Assistant.
• client.get_services() - it gets a dump of the current services in Home Assistant.
• client.call_service(domain, service, service_data) - it calls call a service in Home Assistant.

Development status

• Create the client
  • Automatic reconnection (TBD)
  • Authenticate using long-lived access tokens
  • Authenticate using OAuth2 (TBD)
• Call a service
• Subscribe
  • Events
  • Config (you need this?, raise an Issue)
  • Services (you need this?, raise an Issue)
• UnSubscribe
• Fetch Commands
  • Fetching states
  • Fetching config
  • Fetching services
  • Fetching pannels (you need this?, raise an Issue)
  • Fetching media player thumbnails (you need this?, raise an Issue)
• Ping - Pong