Node-RED Home Assistant Three-Way Switch Manager

This project is a web application designed to help users manage their Home Assistant devices and mappings, focusing on creating virtual three-way switch setups and virtual parallel switch setups through Node-RED. The application allows users to independently manage their own device configurations and mappings.

Features

• Device Management:

  • Fetch Home Assistant devices and entities.
  • Display devices in a table format.

• Mapping Management:

  • Create mappings between source and target devices/entities.
  • Display mappings in a table format.
  • Enable three-way switch setup with a checkbox.
  • Highlight duplicate mappings.
  • Prevent mappings with identical source and target entities.

• Configuration Management:

  • Update Home Assistant configuration settings (URL and access token) via a settings page.
  • Test Home Assistant connection to verify URL and access token.

Requirements

• Python 3.8 or higher
• Home Assistant with relevant devices configured
• Node-RED installed in Home Assistant
• (optional) Node-RED node: @bartbutenaers/node-red-autolayout-sidebar

Directory Structure

node-red-homeassistant-three-way/
  ├── .dockerignore
  ├── .gitignore
  ├── config.py
  ├── config.yaml
  ├── CONTRIBUTING.md
  ├── devices.csv
  ├── Dockerfile
  ├── mappings.csv
  ├── README.md
  ├── requirements.txt
  ├── run.py
  ├── tests
  │   └── unit_tests
  │       └── test_functions.py
  ├── scripts
  │   ├── check_mapping.py
  │   ├── get_ha_devices_entities.py
  │   └── main.py
  └── app
      ├── routes.py
      ├── __init__.py
      ├── templates
      │   ├── devices.html
      │   ├── index.html
      │   ├── mappings.html
      │   └── settings.html
      └── static
          ├── favicon.ico
          ├── scripts.js
          └── styles.css

How to run

1. Clone the Repository:

   git clone https://github.com/guimatheus92/node-red-homeassistant-three-way.git
   cd node-red-homeassistant-three-way

2. Build the Docker Image:

   Build the Docker image using the following command:

   docker-compose up --build

3. Access the Flask Application:

   Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:5000 to access the application.

How to use

Accessing the Application

1. Navigate to the application's URL in your web browser (e.g., http://127.0.0.1:5000 for local development).

Configuration Management

1. Go to the "Settings" tab.
2. Update the Home Assistant URL and access token.

3. Test the connection to ensure the URL and token are correct by clicking the "Test Connection" button. A message will be displayed indicating whether the connection was successful.

4. Check if the template JINJA code works properly in your Home Assistant Template window. Because this code can vary from one user to another.

In this case, this code is retrieving all devices from Tuya and MQTT sources and ignoring some entities. So, this code works on my end because I have renamed my devices and entity in a certain way.

Then first, go to your Home Assistant -> Developer Tools -> Template: Copy and paste the code and do the changes on your end, before running in the application:

5. Save the settings.

Device Management

1. Go to the "Devices" tab.
2. Click "Fetch Devices" to retrieve the latest devices from your Home Assistant (after a success message appear, refresh the page manually).
3. The devices will be listed in the table. You can also download the devices.csv file.

Mapping Management

1. Go to the "Mappings" tab.
2. Add a new mapping by selecting source and target devices and entities.

3. Enable the "Three Way" option if needed by checking the checkbox. You will notice that a new row will be added with entities in reverse (will turn on and turn off in both ways).

4. Save the mappings.
5. The mappings will be listed in the table. You can also download the mappings.csv file.

Node-RED Flow

1. After everything is done, click on Generate NodeRED JSON button to generate a Node-RED Flow JSON. The file will be generated and downloaded automatically.

2. Go to Node-RED, click on Import and paste the generated JSON
3. After you manage to paste and create a new flow, you will see something like this:

4. I would suggest to do the following:

• 4.1. CTRL + A (Select all)
• 4.2. Install Auto Layout is suggested above in this doc
• 4.3. Click on Execute auto-layout button

You will see the magic happening and will look something like this:

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please fork the repository and submit a pull request.

Acknowledgements

• Home Assistant: https://www.home-assistant.io/
• Node-RED: https://nodered.org/