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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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VS Code in Home Assistant: any use for this outside of editing yaml files? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't see that there's any sort of integration for writing code to process information from HA entities like Node Red + Companion. Am I missing something and this is more than just an interface for the config files and maybe a git client for those config files?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

VSCode in HA is primarily useful for editing config files and with all the latest pushes towards config in the UI it's not as useful as it used to be. That said, it does integrate with HA to provide completion for entities and some basic yaml validation.

I also use it to work on ESPhome configs as well as some simple file management. I never got SSH working correctly on the HA VM and VSCode has been a convenient workaround.