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ollo69 / ha-smartthinq-sensors

HomeAssistant custom integration for SmartThinQ LG devices configurable with Lovelace User Interface.
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Add Integration doesn't see smartthinq available #687

Closed hspindel closed 7 months ago

hspindel commented 8 months ago

Followed all the directions to install. custom-components added to ~/homeassistant. Verified files visible.

Rebooted homeassistant. Shift/reloaded browser (Firefox). Cleared cache for good measure. Devices/Add Integration does not see smartthinq.

Clues to what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you.

ollo69 commented 8 months ago

I think that you are missing a . in your path. Configuration path should be ~/.homeassistant 👍

hspindel commented 7 months ago

Thank you for the reply.

I did not originally have a .homeassistant directory, but there was a homeassistant directory, so I put the config files there. I guess that was the wrong thing to do.

So I created a .homeassistant directory and put the config files there. Now the problem is when I reboot home assistant the .homeassistant directory is gone.

I am trying to run home assistant under VirtualBox.

I can restart home assistant from a VirtualBox restore point, and the .homeassistant directory reappears. But the SmartThinQ LGE Sensors doesn't appear in the list of available integrations.

ollo69 commented 7 months ago

There are a lot of possible reason for this that depend on your os / enviroment / etc. If you are using Linux, just keep in mind 2 things:

1) file / directory in Linux that start with . are hidden 2) In Linux ~ means home directory, so the full path can be different and depend on the user you configure. If you create a user called homeassistant the full path should be something like /usr/homeassistant/.homeassistant.

I suggest to search more details on the ha forum / discord because your issue is not related to the integration but to ha configuration.

hspindel commented 7 months ago

The OS is HAOS running in a VirtualBox VM.

Yes, files starting with . are hidden but ls -al would show them.

I'm convinced this would work if I could get the files installed to the correct directory. The instructions say to create custom_components in the same directory as configuration.yaml. There is only one configuration.yaml file, and it is in /homeassistant.

Placing the custom_components file in /homeassistant and rebooting homeassistant does not result in "SmartThinQ LGE Sensors" being available.

I regret that I have no access to discord. Thank you for your answers.

hspindel commented 7 months ago

Never mind. I tried installing with HACS instead of the manual menthod and got that to work.

Thank you for your help.

ollo69 commented 7 months ago

Ok, I close this.