Integrating Grocy and Barcode buddy as Add-ons within Home Assistant

[Tim-G-Winters]

Discussed in https://github.com/Forceu/barcodebuddy/discussions/223

^{Originally posted by **dvpfig** September 10, 2023} Hi, Not sure how up-to-date this repository is kept with the changes in HA, but the ingress type of access in HA add-ons seems not to be supported by Barcode buddy. Or at least I cannot find a way. I have both Grocy and Barcode buddy as two Add-ons in the same HassOS instance. Grocy is well installed and communicates with my Grocy on Android app, so it's reachable. For the Barcode buddy add-on, when trying to setup the connection to Grocy. I don't manage to make it work. The screen requests a IP address for Grocy and /api/ at the end. However, with ingress, I cannot seem to make Grocy accessible via an IP and port number. Is there a way with latest versions of HA, Grocy, to make Barcode buddy work?

[mazetar]

Hi, I'm using the most recent version of HA, running HassOS. I got Barcode buddy to communicate with Grocy by using the local address that the machine hosting HA/HassOS runs at. So I set the Grocy API URL http://192.168.0.100:9192/api/

Now if I use SSL for Grocy and have it exposed to the web I did not find a way to avoid going through the web to access it as it won't accept http connections (which is fair) and I can't be arsed to figure out local certs now :P When I had exposed HA to the web through duckdns then I could reach it from barcode buddy by uisng https://MySubDomainName.duckdns.org:9192/api/

Note that you would have to forward ports on your router for this to work, so check the portforwarding.

[Tim-G-Winters]

I get an error. Unable to connect to API: Invalid API key.

[mazetar]

Check that you are using the correct API key from Grocy? If you doubleclick the API key in Grocy and copy it, you should get it without any trailing spaces