FPP Sensors, such as CPU Temperature, should support specifying a device_class.

Adding a https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/sensor.mqtt/#device block to the MQTT config JSON will allow linking/association of entities in Home Assistant as well as a richer configuration UI.

There seems to be missing boxes and setting after upgrading FPP to 5.0 or higher making it unusable.

I have FPP and HomeAssistant (and Zigbee and Zwave and Yi etc) configured to utilize the homeassistant topic on my server. However, rather than publishing to /homeassistant/light, this plugin appears instead to be publishing to /homeassistant/falcon/player/ha/light

Am I missing a configuration setting somewhere? I was really hoping this would be a good option for controlling my house-mounted lights when I'm not running a show.

Please answer the following:

FPP Version and Hardware:

FPP 7.1 running on multiple Kulp controllers

Describe the bug

In the Home Assistant plugin page, the temp and VIN sensors do not show up in the UI so there is no way to enable/configure those sensors.

Reproduce:

Load the plugin, restart/reboot FPP, access the HA plugin page and the overlays/GPIO are listed but the cape sensors are not.

Per https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/sensor/#device-class if device class is "None" then the device_class attribute should not be set.

I entered the same MQTT information (username, password, ip, port) that works for all of my MQTT light switches in the MQTT section in FPP. No mention of the FPP ip in the HA mosquitto logs, as if FPP isnt even trying to connect. Running FPP on a pi 3 b+.

I would love to see the effects that Dan added to FPP with WLED .. to be able to be added to each device "entity" .
I know its all beta and a start but i think it would add greatness to lots of ppl

thanks for reading
love the ha plugin

Due to the HA MQTT configuration not being published with the retain flag if Home Assistant is restarted the FPP entities setup by MQTT auto discovery will disappear.

Receiving "MQTT Is Not Connected, cannot configure Home Assistant Plugin" however MQTT is connected.

Logs from fppd: fppd.log

Looking at logs, it may be due to the plugin being initialized before MQTT:

2022-10-22 23:22:28.827 (1561) [General] /opt/fpp/src/fppd.cpp:694: Performing Restart.
--------SNIP---------
2022-10-22 23:22:29.268 (1561) [Plugin] src/FPP-HomeAssistant.cpp:31: Initializing Home Assistant Plugin
2022-10-22 23:22:29.270 (1561) [Plugin] src/FPP-HomeAssistant.cpp:58: MQTT Is Not Connected, cannot configure Home Assistant Plugin
----SNIP------
2022-10-22 23:22:30.184 (1561) [General] /opt/fpp/src/fppd.cpp:795: Checking MQTT
2022-10-22 23:22:30.185 (1561) [Control] /opt/fpp/src/mqtt.cpp:449: Mosquitto SetReady()
2022-10-22 23:22:30.185 (1561) [Control] /opt/fpp/src/mqtt.cpp:481: Mosquitto Connected.... Will Subscribe to Topics
2022-10-22 23:22:30.185 (1561) [Control] /opt/fpp/src/mqtt.cpp:509: MQTT HandleConnect Complete
2022-10-22 23:22:30.186 (1561) [General] /opt/fpp/src/fppd.cpp:803: Starting main processing loop
2022-10-22 23:22:33.185 (25741) [Control] /opt/fpp/src/mqtt.cpp:648: Starting Publish Thread with Frequency: 10**

I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. There is limited instructions though so I'm just assuming it's simple instructions and I have something configured wrong.

Under settings, my MQTT information is in there and on Home Assistant it shows MQTT is up and running and sees the IP address. When enabling the checkbox by the Overlay Models nothing happens. I click on the save HA config and nothing shows up in MQTT. It asks me to restart FPP and it disconnects from MQTT as expected and then reconnects when it comes back up. No Overlay Models show as entities or lights. I have restarted Home Assistant as well and it still doesn't show any new entities. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. It looks straightforward, but I can't get it to work.

FPP Version and Hardware:
FPP v6.3-1-gdbe9f8b3 running on BBB

Describe the bug
Discovered HA entity works as expected except it will not accept an Effect parameter in HA

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Enable Discovery of Overlay Model in Home Assistant plugin
2. Add effect for Overlay Model in Home Assistant plugin with new command "Overlay Model Effect". "Run Now" in "Edit Effect Command" menu successfully starts effect.
3. Save HA Config and restart fpp
4. Home Assistant discovers RGB light for Overlay Model with on/off control, brightness, and color exposed on the entity info pane in HA (nothing about effects)
5. Also, from the services page in HA, the light.turn_on service turns the Overlay Model on but adding an effect that matches the command name added in the plugin makes no difference. The effect parameter seems to be ignored.

Expected behavior
As I read it, I think the effect is supposed to be accessible via HA

Screenshots

Thanks!

I would like to see more sensors being reported. Like CPU Temperature and FPP IP Address and percentage of space remaing on SD card. Thanks

There don't appear to be any instructions on how to set this up.

          I don't see anything odd in the Logs and I can't replicate it either. Can you uninstall FPPMon and the Home Assistant plugins (and any others that you might have) and see if you get the same behavior? If so, note the time that you clicked on the Re-Start FPP and let it sit for a while to see if it eventually comes back on. Do you have any outputs enabled that are not actually online? If it doesn't come back on, then note the time that you rebooted it and post the logs again so we can look at the times you took those actions. Thanks

Originally posted by @Poporacer in FalconChristmas/fpp#1730 (comment)

FPP 5.3
Raspberry Pi 4 2GB.

Installing Home assistant plugin prompts for restart of FPPD.
FPPD then stops and will not start again (even after full reboot of the Pi).

Steps taken:

1. Stopped anything playing.
2. Added HA plugin.
3. Ticked 'CPU' sensor only (no GPIO or models).
4. Prompt by FPP to restart FPPD. Clicked restart.
   No errors given by FPP as to FPPD not restarting. It gives notification it has started. Red banner saying FPPD is stopped continues to show.

My Home Assistant instance has also not found it.

Uninstalling the plugin resolves FPPD not starting issue.

My first guess is an issue with HA plugin requiring more to be downloaded when I hit 'restart fppd' in the banner.

Seems to be working well (many thanks).

But when I turn the light on and set the colour in Home Assistant, only the first 100 pixels (I'm guessing, didn't count them) light up, with the remainder of the string staying dark.

When I test the string in FPP, or play a sequence in FPP, the whole string works as expected, so not a set-up issue from that front I think.