Home-Assistant-Discord-bot

Commands

Replace ! with your prefix
() = Required [] = Optional

• !state (entity_id) Shows the state of the entity
• !light_on (entity_id without light.) Turns the light on
• !light_on_color (entity_id without "light.") (R) (G) (B) (Brightness) Turns the light on with the given RGB values
• !light_off (entity_id without light.) Turns the light off
• !switch_on (entity_id without switch.) Turns the switch on
• !switch_off (entity_id without switch.) Turns the switch off
• !alexa (message) Says message through alexa. Installation: Look Alexa

Installation

Requirments

• Home Assistant
• Node.js
• NPM
• Alexa Media Player in Home Assistant (only if you want to use !alexa)
• Docker

Installation

You must go into the folder with the files and then execute the following commands

• Make a Container with the Image minionflo/discord:homeassistant
• Set the Env variabels
  • DC_TOKEN = Your discord token
  • DC_OWNER = Your discord id
  • DC_STATUS = The status of the bot
  • DC_STATUSTYPE = The type of the status
  • DC_PREFIX = The prefix of the message to listen to
  • DC_CHANNEL = The channel id of the channel to listen to
  • HA_TOKEN = Your Home Assistant Long-Lived-Access Tokens
  • HA_HOST = The url of your Home Assistant instance
  • HA_PORT = The port of your Home Assistant instance
  • HA_PROTOCOL = wss for Home Assistant with SSL, ws for Home Assistant without SSL
• Start the Container

Alexa

You need two helpers and one automation for !alexa to work

Helpers

1. Toggle Helper with the name: alexa_say
2. Text Helper with the name: alexa_say

Automation

Create an automation and open the automation yaml editor and paste in the code below

description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: input_boolean.alexa_say
    to: 'on'
condition: []
action:
  - service: notify.alexa_media_NAME
    data:
      data:
        type: tts
      target:
        - media_player.NAME
      message: '{{ states(''input_text.alexa_say'') }}'
  - service: input_boolean.turn_off
    data:
      entity_id: input_boolean.alexa_say
mode: single

Replace "NAME" with the name of your alexa