AppDaemon Dev

Setup

Secrets

Needs a long-lived token for HA in secrets.yaml

Debugger

Use with VSCode's debugger using a launch.json file.

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    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "AppDaemon Dev",
            "type": "debugpy",
            "request": "launch",
            "module": "appdaemon",
            "justMyCode": true,
            "args": "-c ../conf"        // Expects the conf directory to be next to the appdaemon one
        },
        {
            "name": "Pytest",
            "type": "debugpy",
            "request": "launch",
            "module": "pytest",
            "justMyCode": true,
            "args": [
                "${workspaceFolder}/tests",
                "--maxfail=1",            // Stop after the first failure
                "-s"                      // Allow for interactive debugging (pdb)
            ],
        }
    ]
}

Test Script

#!/bin/bash
set -e

SCRIPT_DIR=$(readlink -f $(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"))
REPO_DIR=$(dirname $SCRIPT_DIR)

echo $REPO_DIR
cd $REPO_DIR

rm -rf ./dist

# isort ./appdaemon ./docs/conf.py

black ./appdaemon ./docs/conf.py

pre-commit run --all-files

python -m pytest

python -m build

docker build -t appdaemon:local-dev .

cd ../conf
docker compose run -it --rm appdaemon

Reference

• importlib.reload(module)
• AppManagement.check_app_updates
  • AppManagement._load_reload_modules
  • AppManagement._load_apps
    • AppManagement.init_object