Hassle is a smart home automation library for Home Assistant, written in Kotlin. It allows your application or service to interact with Home Assistant, such as to observe state changes, listen to events, send commands, and much more. Hassle establishes a background WebSocket connection to Home Assistant, and aims to be resilient to network connectivity issues when possible.
To connect to your Home Assistant server:
val credentials = Credentials(
name = "Home Assistant",
host = "homeassistant.myserver.com",
port = 8123,
accessToken = "access_token_obtained_from_home_assistant",
isSecure = false // true for HTTPS/WSS
)
val client = homeAssistantApiClient(credentials)
client.connect()Hassle provides predefined factory functions, data classes, and observers for all of the common entity types.
In the following example we'll observe the motion sensor in the living room, and when motion is detected we'll turn on the living room light with a 5000K color temperature.
val client = homeAssistantApiClient(...)
client.connect()
val motionSensor = client.MotionSensor(
EntityId.fromString(ObjectId("living_room_motion"))
)
val light = client.RGBWLight(ObjectId("living_room_main_light"))
motionSensor.onMotionAlarm { //this: MotionSensor
light.setColorTemperature(5000.kelvin)
}Hassle abstracts away the lower level service calls and state observation and encourages you to think in states instead. This is less error-prone and hopefully easier to understand.
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If you're not already familiar with Home Assistant, you'll find all you need on the Getting Started page.
Further information on this topic is available on the official Home Assistant Documentation page.
Hassle is available from Maven Central. Add the following lines to your build.gradle.kts:
repositories {
// ...
mavenCentral()
}dependencies {
// ...
implementation("com.codellyrandom.hassle:hassle:${replace with a version}")
}The API documentation for Hassle is available here.
Hassle has no opinion on how you want to run your application, what other libraries or pattern you choose, or what else is best for what you like to build. All Hassle needs is a Kotlin environment to run properly.
If you want to make modifications or enhancements to Hassle, the IntelliJ IDEA by JetBrains is your best bet. The Community Edition is free and should provide what you need.
To create a new patch release:
git checkout release
git reset --hard origin/main
git push
To create a new release with a specific release number:
- Tag the SHA that you want to release with the version number, starting with "v", such as
git tag "v1.0.0"
- Push the tag
git push --tags
- Reset the
releasebranch to the new tag:
git checkout release
git reset --hard "v1.0.0"
git push
GitHub Actions will take care of creating and publishing a new release.
Q: Can I use Hassle to write my Home Assistant automations?
A: You definitely could, although Hassle was really designed to let your Kotlin service or application interact with Home Assistant. You could wrap your Hassle logic in a small program that spins the run loop in order to continue listening for events. You also might look at Khome, which was designed more directly for this purpose.
Q: Why Kotlin?
A: Kotlin's a great, modern, language. It's also compatible with other languages such as Objective-C (and by extension Swift) and JavaScript via Kotlin Multiplatform.
Q: So is Hassle compatible with Kotlin Multiplatform?
A: Sort of. Hassle uses only multiplatform-compatible libraries, and therefore compiles for all platforms, but it doesn't actually work with iOS because Ktor, the networking library used by Hassle, doesn't yet support WebSocket connections. Once that support is in place the aim is to get Hassle working for iOS as well.
It's quite possible that Hassle works when transpiled to JavaScript, but this hasn't been tested.
- Quick start
- Sensors, Actuators and Observers
- Predefined entity types (to be finished)
- Build entity types from scratch (coming soon)
- Notifications API
- Safety's first
Hassle was forked from Khome, and a huge thank you goes out to dennisschroeder and the contributors to that project.