Home Assistant Windows Tools

This project contains tools to make Home Assistant easier to use on windows.

gatttool

This tool emulates the linux bluez stack gatttool, it currently only supports --char-read, --char-write-req and --characteristics functionality but that is enough to run Mi Flora Plant Sensor.

Only tested on Windows 10, not compatible with Windows 7 but could work on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.

hcitool

This tool emulates the linux bluez stack hcitool, it currently only supports lescan.

You will have to pair the Bluetooth LE device in Windows before this tool will be able to detect it. Only tested on Windows 10, not compatible with Windows 7 but could work on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.

HomeAssistantService

This tool allows you to run HASS as a Windows service also implements a check every 30 seconds to ensure that HASS is responsive.

Installation

• Copy the HomeAssistantService folder to a location of choice for example C:\Program files\HomeAssistantService\
• Open cmd and go to the directory where you placed HomeAssistantService
• Run HomeAssistantService install, this installs it as a windows service.
• Provide the credentials for the current user when prompted (This is used to run the service as the current user)
• Run HomeAssistantService start this starts the service and in turn Home Assistant.

Uninstall

• Open cmd and go to the directory where you placed HomeAssistantService
• First stop the service with HomeAssistantService stop
• Run HomeAssistantService uninstall to uninstall the service

IISRPWA - IIS Reverse Proxy with authentication

This allows you to turn IIS into a Reverse proxy with multiple users.

Passwords are stored using Salt and key stretching with SHA512.

Installation

• Create a new site in IIS
• Add a HTTPS Cert
• Copy IISRPWA to the iis site directory
• Run App_Data\IISRPWA.Manager.exe
• add at least one user
• If your not using Let's Encrypt remove PathException ~/.well-known/acme-challenge/*
• If you wish to be able to access HASS without authenticating at home add a ip exception specific for your ip or with 192.168.0.* (replace 0 if your using a diffrent subnet)
• Open web.config change the ip address on the following line <action type="Rewrite" url="http://192.168.0.15/{R:1}"/>.

Requirments

• URL Rewrite for IIS
• Websocket support for IIS

IISRPWA.Manager

This tool allows you to manage the Configuration.config for IISRPWA.