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Home Assistant Community Add-on: VSCode Remote

A small add-on to allow to connect a VSCode client into Home Assistant, so you can access and edit your configuration with a remote Visual Studio Code instance with ease.

Installation

The installation of this add-on is pretty straightforward and not different in comparison to installing any other Home Assistant add-on.

1. Search for the "VSCode Remote" add-on in the Supervisor add-on store and install it.
2. Set a password or add a SSH public key pair to the add-on configuration.
3. Start the "VSCode Remote" add-on.
4. Check the logs of the "VSCode Remote" add-on to see if everything went well.
5. Connect the Visual Studio Code on your desktop with Home Assistant.

Configuration

Note: Remember to restart the add-on when the configuration is changed.

Example add-on configuration:

log_level: info
password: ""
authorized_keys:
  - ssh-rsa AASDJKJKJFWJFAFLCNALCMLAK234234.....
packages:
  - mariadb-client
init_commands:
  - ls -la

Note: This is just an example, don't copy and paste it! Create your own!

Option: log_level

The log_level option controls the level of log output by the addon and can be changed to be more or less verbose, which might be useful when you are dealing with an unknown issue. Possible values are:

• trace: Show every detail, like all called internal functions.
• debug: Shows detailed debug information.
• info: Normal (usually) interesting events.
• warning: Exceptional occurrences that are not errors.
• error: Runtime errors that do not require immediate action.
• fatal: Something went terribly wrong. Add-on becomes unusable.

Please note that each level automatically includes log messages from a more severe level, e.g., debug also shows info messages. By default, the log_level is set to info, which is the recommended setting unless you are troubleshooting.

Option: password

Sets the password to log in with. Leaving it empty would disable the possibility to authenticate with a password. We would highly recommend not to use this option from a security point of view.

Note: The password will be checked against HaveIBeenPwned. If it is listed, the add-on will not start.

Option: authorized_keys

Add one or more public keys to your SSH server to use with authentication. This is the recommended over setting a password.

Please take a look at the awesome documentation created by GitHub about using public/private key pairs and how to create them.

Note: Please ensure the keys are specified as a list.

Option: packages

Allows you to specify additional Debian packages to be installed in your shell environment (e.g., Python, PHP, Go).

Note: Adding many packages will result in a longer start-up time for the add-on.

Option: init_commands

Customize your VSCode environment even more with the init_commands option. Add one or more shell commands to the list, and they will be executed every single time this add-on starts.

Option: i_like_to_be_pwned

Adding this option to the add-on configuration allows to you bypass the HaveIBeenPwned password requirement by setting it to true.

Note: We STRONGLY suggest picking a stronger/safer password instead of using this option! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Known issues and limitations

• "Visual Studio Code is unable to watch for file changes in this large workspace" (error ENOSPC)

  This issue is caused by your system not having enough file handles, which causes VSCode to be unable to watch all your files. For HassOS, currently the only option is to click on the little cog when the notification appears and tell it to not show again. In case you have a generic Linux setup (e.g., Ubuntu), follow this guide by Microsoft:

  https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux#_visual-studio-code-is-unable-to-watch-for-file-changes-in-this-large-workspace-error-enospc

Changelog & Releases

This repository keeps a change log using GitHub's releases functionality.

Releases are based on Semantic Versioning, and use the format of MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH. In a nutshell, the version will be incremented based on the following:

• MAJOR: Incompatible or major changes.
• MINOR: Backwards-compatible new features and enhancements.
• PATCH: Backwards-compatible bugfixes and package updates.

Support

Got questions?

You have several options to get them answered:

• The Home Assistant Community Add-ons Discord chat server for add-on support and feature requests.
• The Home Assistant Discord chat server for general Home Assistant discussions and questions.
• The Home Assistant Community Forum.
• Join the Reddit subreddit in /r/homeassistant

You could also open an issue here GitHub.

Authors & contributors

The original setup of this repository is by Franck Nijhof.

For a full list of all authors and contributors, check the contributor's page.

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2021 Franck Nijhof

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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