Home assistant integration

[cunninr2]

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Excellent work. I'm really interested in getting status monitoring of the Ankermake M5 into home assistant so I can monitor from afar and auto shutdown. Probably only needs a few status parameters such as printing, job completed, bed/nozzle temps. start/stop printing. The icing on the cake would be a camera feed for sure. keep up the good work.

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[BowlesCR]

Despite the title, #92 seems to be working in this same direction -- you may want to see about coordinating efforts.

[Phoenix-DH]

I would also be ninteressted in a HA integration.
Thanks ✌🏻

[JayRHa]

Please work on this#

[sondregronas]

Hi - I've been working on a Home Assistant integration that seems to have now reached a usable stage, which is available here: https://github.com/sondregronas/ankermake-hass-component and can be installed via hacs.

Note: I've only tested with ankerctl in the v1.1 branch, and I'm not sure how stable it is yet as finding errors or debugging takes a lot of time

I'm also open to moving said integration over to the Ankermgmt organization if it's of any interest. (Ankermgmt/ankermgmt-hassio-addons#5)

[Phoenix-DH]

Hey,
this sounds great! Thanks.
Does that mean that in addition to your hacs also an ankerctl instance must be running? Anything else needrd on HA? MQTT Broker?

But where to find ankerctl for HA? Am I blind?

Thanks

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[sondregronas]

You just need an instance of ankerctl running, yes. Once you've installed via HACS / imported to custom_components you should find it under "Add Integration" in the Devices & Services dashboard. There's no need for an MQTT broker or any other dependencies as it uses ankerctl's own provided webserver (/ws/mqtt endpoint)

[Phoenix-DH]

Thanks!
Just added your repo to HACS and the Addon to HA.
Will try next time when I use the printer.

Thanks.

[Phoenix-DH]

Is the current way to install home assistant addon.
Afterwards install ankerctl on your pc to generste login.json.
Import login.json on the home assistant ankerctl webpage?

[sondregronas]

You need ankerctl running, I use this fork in docker for the time being: https://github.com/sondregronas/ankermake-m5-protocol/tree/patch-exiles-1.1-auto-restart-on-failure, but I presume the home assistant version should work.

The integration only needs the URL of an ankerctl instance, it doesn't matter if its running via home assistant or not.

EDIT: This docker-compose.yml file should work with my changes, though there's not much deviation from this default branch for the integration if you don't use go2rtc for the camera

services:
    ankerctl:
        container_name: ankerctl
        restart: unless-stopped
        build: 
          context: https://github.com/sondregronas/ankermake-m5-protocol.git#patch-exiles-1.1-auto-restart-on-failure
        privileged: true
        # host-mode networking is required for pppp communication with the
        # printer, since it is an asymmetrical udp protocol.
        network_mode: host
        environment:
            - FLASK_HOST=0.0.0.0
            - FLASK_PORT=4470
        volumes:
            - ankerctl_vol:/root/.config/ankerctl
            - ./ankermake-m5-protocol/web/:/app/web

    # This container will restart the ankerctl container every 2 hours
    # as a temporary workaround for some socket issues.
    ankerctl_restarter:
      image: docker
      volumes: ["/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock"]
      # 2 hours = 7200 seconds
      command: ["/bin/sh", "-c", "while true; do sleep 7200; docker restart ankerctl; done"]
      restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
    ankerctl_vol:

[Phoenix-DH]

Sure, but i do not want to run something in parallel.
I think I found in one orher thread maybe a solution:
#161

[sondregronas]

@Phoenix-DH

https://github.com/sondregronas/ankermgmt-hassio-addons - try replacing the main addon with this (remove the old repo from AddOn repos & replace with the new one - works for me 😄 (<hass-ip>:4470, ingress does not work on mine either)

This is the same Dockerfile as in my fork - which has the same changes as the fork/pr you linked, though it is not a long term solution. Once merged I'll most likely remove it.. (or just update it to the main repo's latest release)

I'd recommend creating an automation to restart the AddOn every 2 hours, if you want a reliable videostream.

[Phoenix-DH]

Thanks!
Will try next days. I have only a M5C without video.

Edit:
Replaced quickly the add-on, but it won‘t start:
W] No printers found in config. Please upload configuration using the webserver or 'ankerctl.py config import' [!] Printer number 0 out of range, max printer number is -1 [*] ServiceManager: Shutdown complete [W] No printers found in config. Please upload configuration using the webserver or 'ankerctl.py config import' [!] Printer number 0 out of range, max printer number is -1 [*] ServiceManager: Shutdown complete [W] No printers found in config. Please upload configuration using the webserver or 'ankerctl.py config import' [!] Printer number 0 out of range, max printer number is -1 [*] ServiceManager: Shutdown complete

Do I miss somerhing in addition?

[sondregronas]

I'll have a fix out in a couple minutes - good catch, this must've been an oversight in one of the other PRs :)

Go to AddOns and hit Check for Updates then rebuild the container in ~30 minutes

[Phoenix-DH]

Hey, will try it tomorrow! Thanks!

[sondregronas]

Should be working now in a couple minutes (requires a rebuild of the addon) - I'm not 100% certain the M5C is supported, from what I can tell it should?

EDIT: I've tried to log off and log back in again via the addon - everything seems to be working fine on the M5 at least 😄

If there's any issues with the component please move the convo over here: https://github.com/sondregronas/ankermake-hass-component/issues - I won't be able to work on this again until a couple weeks from now, but as far as I can tell we're stable-ish.

[Phoenix-DH]

Thanks!
I installed the latest and there is a login windows.
Will do the rest of testing today.

[Phoenix-DH]

Login worked, will install the plugin.
Also the upgrade to v1.0.2. of the addon was working.