Running the agent as a service and tray icon

[hapklaar]

I installed the agent as a service with systemctl --user enable go-hass-agent && systemctl --user start go-hass-agent to have it auto start on boot. I would also like to have the tray icon present, but this is not active.

To start it I can separately issue a go-hass-agent run on which the icon will show. Is this the way or can I have the tray icon auto start another way?

PS Thanks for creating this, really appreciate it!

[joshuar]

Hey there, thanks for trying out Go Hass Agent!

If you are running Go Hass Agent in a desktop, then you don't need to worry about configuring and starting it as a systemctl service. You can just use the autostart functionality of your desktop environment, for example in KDE or Gnome, or see the documentation for your desktop environment (the Arch Wiki might have some useful information).

The systemctl service is primarily for "headless" usage (i.e., servers) not running any desktop environment. If you run the agent both as a a systemctl service and in your desktop, you'll have two instances sending duplicate data, which might not be desired 😄