Home Assistant integration

[Igglybuff]

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Feature description

I'd love to integrate JetKVM into Home Assistant. I have the ATX extension, and it would be really nice to be able to control that from Home Assistant, and by extension voice assistants ("Hey Google, turn on the server!"). An official integration could also surface other information from JetKVM as entities etc. for use in automations and dashboards (e.g. connection stats).

I would make one myself, but the JetKVM cloud API seems to be largely undocumented and a bit of a black box - sure it's open source, but that's about it. I wouldn't know where best to start. There are one or two unmaintained projects I found but I don't really trust that they work well enough for long-term use.

[SlyBlueFox]

I would love to see this as well, much for the same reason. If not a full integration, even just having an open API for JetKVM would be valuable, that way the community could develop an integration.

[aaronbolton]

Upvote from me, I came here to look for exactly this

[bryanvaz]

someone took a first pass at an integration a while ago:
https://github.com/Poshy163/HomeAssistant-JetKVM

[PH89]

This is nice idea.

I would make one myself, but the JetKVM cloud API seems to be largely undocumented and a bit of a black box - sure it's open source, but that's about it.

JetKVM is using a WebSocket & WebRTC combination this makes sense since streaming is one of the main purpose here. However there are (Python) implementation for the WebRTC API like https://github.com/agners/pyjetkvm-client. So it should be not so hard to implement an HA integration upon on this. BUT There is a bigger issue the single session limitation.
This would logout the user of the JetKVM when ever the HA integration would fetch data or sending commands.

As an alternative we could implement an mqtt client into JetKVM.
Thanks to the mqtt device discovery (https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/mqtt/) it would be possible to integrate this device without much configuration overhead.

I am going to investigate this further.

[bryanvaz]

personally, I would probably be lazy and run ssh commands from HAOS, assuming I can issue atx power commands via local cli.

[aaronbolton]

@PH89 MQTT Client would be a really good idea

@bryanvaz I looked at SSH, but I cannot find any cli commands

[PH89]

The current progress. Core functionality is done.

DC and ATX entities are dynamic based on which module is connected to the JetKVM.

If you have wishes for entities please mention them.

[aaronbolton]

The current progress. Core functionality is done.

DC and ATX entities are dynamic based on which module is connected to the JetKVM.

If you have wishes for entities please mention them.

Excellent work, will you be opening a PR

[Igglybuff]

That looks really nice, great work @PH89!

Happy to test this out whenever it's ready.

[PH89]

PR created #1195

Feel free to test.