🚀 Frenck's Github Action: Home Assistant Core Configuration Check

🚀 Frenck's GitHub Action for running a Home Assistant Core configuration check.

About

This GitHub action runs a Home Assistant Core configuration check against your repository.

Please note; that this Action is useable for all Home Assistant installation types, and thus NOT limited to Home Assistant Core users. It also works if you are running Home Assistant Container, Supervised or OS.

Usage

name: Check
on: [push, pull_request]
jobs:
  home-assistant:
    name: Home Assistant Core Configuration Check
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: ⤵️ Check out configuration from GitHub
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: 🚀 Run Home Assistant Configuration Check
        uses: frenck/action-home-assistant@v1
        with:
          path: "./config"
          secrets: fakesecrets.yaml
          version: stable

Arguments

Input	Description	Usage
env_file	Possible path to environment file to use.	Optional
path	Path to the folder containing the Home Assistant Core configuration.	Optional
secrets	Alternative secrets file to use, e.g., "fakesecrets.yaml".	Optional
version	Version to use; dev/beta/stable or a specific version number.	Optional

Specific configuration folder

By default, this GitHub Action will use the root folder as the Home Assistant Core configuration folder. If you store your Home Assistant configuration in a subfolder, the path argument can be used to inform the Action about that.

For example, if your configuration is in the config folder:

- name: 🚀 Run Home Assistant Core Configuration Check
  uses: frenck/action-home-assistant@v1
  with:
    path: "./config"

Using a fake secrets file

Of course, you don't want to commit your secrets file. However, without a secrets file, your configuration check will most likely not pass.

This GitHub Action offers a way around that, but using a fake secrets file.

To use this, add a fake secrets file to your repository (e.g., fakesecrets.yaml) and make sure the content is the same as your real secrets.yaml (with, of course, fake credentials/data). The GitHub Action will use this file while checking your configuration.

For example, if you fake secrets file is fakesecrets.yaml:

- name: 🚀 Run Home Assistant Core Configuration Check
  uses: frenck/action-home-assistant@v1
  with:
    secrets: "fakesecrets.yaml"

Running against a specific version

This GitHub Action allows you to specify a specific version to run your Home Assistant Core configuration against. However, by default, the integration will try to find the .HA_VERSION file in your configuration folder.

If the .HA_VERSION file is found, the version in that file is used. If the .HA_VERSION file is not found; the Action will use the latest stable version of Home Assistant to test your configuration.

However, you can specify/override any version you like to check against, for example, check with Home Assistant Core 2021.1.0:

- name: 🚀 Run Home Assistant Core Configuration Check
  uses: frenck/action-home-assistant@v1
  with:
    version: "2021.1.0"

Alternatively, you can also use stable, beta or dev to run against the latest versions of those stability channels.

- name: 🚀 Run Home Assistant Core Configuration Check
  uses: frenck/action-home-assistant@v1
  with:
    version: beta

More extensive example

A more extensive example, that runs your configuration against the latest development, beta and stable versions:

name: Check
on: [push, pull_request]
jobs:
  home-assistant:
    name: "Home Assistant Core ${{ matrix.version }} Configuration Check"
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    strategy:
      matrix:
        version: ["stable", "beta", "dev"]
    steps:
      - name: ⤵️ Check out configuration from GitHub
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: 🚀 Run Home Assistant Configuration Check
        uses: frenck/action-home-assistant@v1
        with:
          path: "./config"
          secrets: fakesecrets.yaml
          version: "${{ matrix.version }}"

Real-world examples

The following repositories are using this GitHub Action, and thus provide you with some real-world uses of this GitHub Action.

• Frenck's Home Assistant Configuration
• Klaasnicolaas - Student Home Assistant Configuration
• Metbril's 😎 Home Assistant Configuration
• ntilley905's Home Assistant Configuration
• robbrad's Home Assistant Configuration
• Pinkywafer's Home Assistant Configuration

Are you using this GitHub Action? Feel free to open up a PR to add your configuration to this list 😍

Changelog & Releases

This repository keeps a change log using GitHub's releases functionality.

Releases are based on Semantic Versioning, and use the format of MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH. In a nutshell, the version will be incremented based on the following:

• MAJOR: Incompatible or major changes.
• MINOR: Backwards-compatible new features and enhancements.
• PATCH: Backwards-compatible bugfixes and package updates.

Versions & Updating

You can specify which version of this GitHub Action your workflow should use. And even allowing for using the latest major or minor version.

For example; this will use release v1.1.1 of a GitHub Action:

- name: 🚀 Run Home Assistant Configuration Check
  uses: frenck/[email protected]

While the following example, will use the v1.1.x minor release, for example if v1.1.2 is the latest releases (starting with v1.1), this will run v1.1.2:

- name: 🚀 Run Home Assistant Configuration Check
  uses: frenck/[email protected]

As in the examples throughout the documentation, the following example is locked on major version, meaning any v1.x.x latest version will be used, as long as it is version 1.

- name: 🚀 Run Home Assistant Configuration Check
  uses: frenck/action-home-assistant@v1

Automatically update using Dependabot

The advantage of locking against a more specific version, is that it prevents surprises if an issue or breaking changes were introduced in a newer release.

The disadvantage of being more specific, is that it requires you to keep things up to date. Fortunately, GitHub has a tool for that, called: Dependabot.

Dependabot can automatically open a pull request on your repository to update this Action for you. You can instantly see if the new version works (as the pull request shows the success or failure status) and you can decide to merge it in by hitting the merge button. Quick, easy and always up2date.

To enable Dependabot, create a file called .github/dependabot.yaml:

version: 2
updates:
  - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
    directory: "/"
    schedule:
      interval: daily

Your all set! Dependabot will now check (and update) your GitHub actions every day. 🤩

Contributing

This is an active open-source project. We are always open to people who want to use the code or contribute to it.

We've set up a separate document for our contribution guidelines.

Thank you for being involved! 😍

Authors & contributors

The original setup of this repository is by Franck Nijhof.

For a full list of all authors and contributors, check the contributor's page.

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2021-2023 Franck Nijhof

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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