✨ ABOUT REQUESTS

[alexbelgium]

Hi everyone,

When I was beginning to use HomeAssistant, I saw tons of possibilities with the system and was a bit frustrated when an app that I wanted was not available as an addon. I therefore started this repo. When people started asking me to port new apps that I was not using myself, I understood where they came from and tried to implement as many as possible.

Everyone is therefore free to make a request through the Issues system. However, I do not provide a guarantee neither of timings, nor of implementation. Globally, the key factors for implementation by order of priority are :

• Is the image from linuxserver.io ? They have the best dockerhub images, that are very easily converted in addons
• Number of people interested in the addon
• Quality of existing dockerhub image

Maintaining all those addons take a lot of time, although I recognize that people help me a lot through bug reports & proposing PR to improve the repo. So please don't hesitate to help improve things where you can, it will be much appreciated and will benefit everyone!

Have a nice day everyone

[KairuByte]

As someone with a longish standing request that is slowly being worked on, I appreciate all you do. Even if the end result is something that doesn't happen, the effort alone is appreciated. I personally do not expect anything, as you are doing this in your free time. You owe us nothing, after all. ^_^

I do have one suggestion though. Maybe move requests over into discussions? That way debate and voting would be easier in general, and the issues section could remain for actual issues.

[alexbelgium]

Good idea. I see that the HA community addon did this. I'll look at it as an improvement! I just want to keep visibility on the requests so I don't forget them :) I've also added a script that checks if issues or requests are open, and notify those on top of the relevant addon readme, I'll have to see if the github api exposes discussions in the same way as issues. Thanks for the proposal!

[alexbelgium]

I don't think I'll be able to add new addons for the moment

[richardwonka]

A note - and a question - on the documentation.

I love that the available options are all listed here, even with examples.

There is one piece of information missing: Where do I put these options? Which file do I need to edit to add them?

e.g.: I get the error message in the admin dashboard about missing the default phone region.

The documentation tells me that I can set default_phone_region: de

But where do I set this option?

[alexbelgium]

Hi, thanks for the feedback - options can be configured from the addon options page within homeassistant. Watch-out that if they are not used, they might be hidden.

[richardwonka]

That’s the odd thing. The example was not in the UI. When I added the option in yaml, the ui refused to save the config.
( I verified syntax )

[alexbelgium]

Well I guess you are talking about Nextcloud, which is the only add-on using this option. On my system I can see the option, and it is in the config, so I'm sure it exists. Now the only reason that you wouldn't see it in the nextcloud add-on options were if that option is hidden and needs to be shown by the switch in bottom right of my first screen shot

[richardwonka]

Yes, it is about nextcloud, sorry I hadn’t specified.

I had used that switch for the hidden options, that was the first place I looked.

I’m running the latest available nextcloud add-on on current Homeassistant and it was not showing and refusing to let me add the option.

EDIT:

1. I wasn’t using my eyes that well, I have found the option
2. It’s case sensitive and refusing to save when the country code is supplied in lower case. - removing case sensitivity might be an easy way to reduce surprises.

Facit: all sorted now, thank you

[alexbelgium]

Hi, sorry I don't have time anymore alas to add new addons. But I had written a short guide how to build addons. When I started I had no docker or HA knowledge and build all by trial ;-) https://github.com/alexbelgium/hassio-addons/wiki/Building-an-addon

Another way would be to use portainer to launch the docker by yourself - there is lots of documentation out there on using portainer to start a container

I would also recommend to check around if there is no other repo fitting your needs as indeed I think I already read in the past about flightradar addons !

Good luck, and have fun with HA!