HASSIO OnAir

A script to trigger a sensor in you homeassistant when your webcam becomes in use.

Installation instructions

1. You have to buy a third party app in order to identify if your webcam is in use. There is other free applications that do a similar thing, but I've had the most consistent luck with https://obdev.at/microsnitch
2. Install hassio-onair npm install hassio-onair -g
3. Make sure you're using a version of node that's 12 or greater, check with node --version. There's a problem with earlier versions of node where it won't pick up on file changes correctly.

Testing it works

1. Create a long lived access token from the profile settings in home assistant.
2. Run the script with onair -h <HOME_ASSISTANT_URL> -k <LONG_LIVED_ACCESS_TOKEN>
3. Have micro snitch running
4. Open photobooth
5. Check that the sensor.on_air entity is updated in home assistant

Creating a shortcut to make it easier to start

1. Create an automater script to make it easier to start up
   1. Open Automator
   2. File -> New
   3. Type: Application
   4. Add action: Run Shell Script
   5. Use the following command

      onair -h <HOME_ASSISTANT_URL> -k <LONG_LIVED_ACCESS_TOKEN> >/dev/null 2>&1 &

   6. Save
2. Start from applications folder (the app icon will immediately disappear, this is because the script runs in the brackground)