fabric-home-assistant

Easily deploy Home-Assistant and it's components from a fresh Raspbian Jessie/Jessie-Lite or Debian 8 install. The fab deploy script will do the following:

• Create needed directories
• Create needed service accounts
• Install OS and Python dependencies
• Setup a virtualenv to run Home-Assistant and components inside.
• Run as a service account
• Build Mosquitto from source with websocket support
• Install Python-openzwave in the Home-Assistant virtualenv
• Add both Home-Assistant and Mosquitto to systemd services

What is Fabric? The official README says:

"Fabric is a Python (2.5-2.7) library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks."

Python makes automating the build of things effortless. Since I use Python3 mostly, and the offical repo's don't contain a py3 version yet, you'll need to use this version for now: https://github.com/mathiasertl/fabric.git

Usage:

Simply install fabric locally: pip install fabric (for python 3 support, install fabric3 https://github.com/mathiasertl/fabric.git)

Ensure you're able to SSH into the target server.

Clone the contents: git clone https://github.com/jbags81/fabric-home-assistant.git Add the host info from before to the beginning of fabfile.py The repo contains a pre-configured default mosquitto.conf file. The only addition is an added listener for websockets listening on 9001. It also contains preconfigured systemd service profiles. For the fabric script to run successfully, it has to be ran from the root of the cloned repo.

Run the "deploy" function to build a new home-assistant server: fab deploy then reboot. Everything will start at boot, and Home-Assistant is accessible from http://your_server_ip:8123

Fabric allows any of the underlying functions to be ran individually as well. run fab -l to see a list of all callable jobs.

Future support for non-virtualenv based servers will be added, along with the ability to auto upload existing or backup .yaml Home-Assistant configs. I'm also working on a turn-key devlopment script to make testing and development environments one click setups.. More to come!

Tested with Raspbian Jessie, Jessie-Lite, and Debian 8