Testing Config Changes

[krystiancharubin]

Is there a way to test config changes without having to restart HA every time?

[PiotrMachowski]

Right now it's not possible (only config validation). Maybe I will try to implement config flow, in this case you will be able to completely configure this integration via UI.

[krystiancharubin]

Would it be easy to run the python code from terminal to spit out an image?

[PiotrMachowski]

That's doable, I plan to prepare some scripts soon

[PiotrMachowski]

I added scripts here.

Before running you have to configure them (code between CONFIGURATION and CONFIGURATION END).

Python files of a component must be in the same direction as ones from scripts.

To open binary map file (map_data.gz) you can use RoboMapViever.

These scripts are not tested yet, so there may some issues. I will include them in a documentation later.

[leva3000]

@krystiancharubin I suggest the really great portable version of HA https://github.com/AlexxIT/HassWP.
It's just an 82M archive. You can set up your configuration and quickly restart the portable instance using the preadded script button on lovelace. I spent like 5-10 minutes to adjust settings.

[PiotrMachowski]

@leva3000 WOW! I didn't know about this tool!

[leva3000]

@PiotrMachowski So you need to check another cool stuff from this guy! Some time ago he released https://github.com/AlexxIT/XiaomiGateway3 integration which allows getting tokens of Xiaomi devices right from Mi Cloud and to integrate Xiaomi Gateway 3 in HA without soldering! Check videos on his YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/AlexxIT

[PiotrMachowski]

@leva3000 I have made a script for getting tokens of Xiaomi devices, you can check it out here 🙂

[leva3000]

Almost everybody in the Russian HA community is used modified Mi Home apk before solutions like yours and Alex's were implemented. Thank you!

[PiotrMachowski]

Added possibility to reload config from yaml file without HA restart in v2.0.3