Home Assistant Config Helper is add-on for Visual Studio Code. The main advantage of the add-on is the auto completion of the entity-id’s from your Home Assistant configuration.
Installation
- Installing Visual Studio Code (https://code.visualstudio.com/)
- Installing Home Assistant Config Helper Add-on from the marketplace (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=keesschollaart.vscode-home-assistant)
- Open Visual Studio Code Settings
- Now go to the „Home Assistant Config Helper“ Settings in the category Extensions
- Here you have to insert the Host URL of your Home Assistant (some thing like this: http://192.168.1.xxx:8123) and the Long Lived Access Token. How to get the Token is explained in the next step.
- To get a Long Lived Access Token you have to login in your Home Assistant. Click on your profile name in the left corner on the bottom („christoph“). Now scroll to the bottom of this page. There is a button to create a new token.
- Insert the generated token into your visual studio code settings.
- Open a YAML File of yout Home Assistant Configuration. (I use a samba server on the raspberry pi to edit the configuration)
- Now the auto completion of the entity-id’s from your Home Assistant configuration should work
