Home Assistant Integration for Fabman – Looking for Alpha Testers & Ideas!
I’ve been working on a Home Assistant integration for Fabman, and I’m excited to share it with you!
This integration allows you to connect your Fabman setup with Home Assistant, opening up endless automation possibilities. Want to control access based on schedules, trigger actions when a bridge is activated, or get notifications when a specific event occurs? Now you can!
Alpha Stage – Looking for Feedback!
This integration is still in alpha and hasn’t been widely tested yet. That’s where I need your help! If you’re willing to try it out, I’d love to hear your feedback, bug reports, and suggestions.
What use cases do you have in mind?
I’m especially curious about how you’d like to use this integration. What automations would be useful for your Fabman setup? Let’s brainstorm together!
Hi Roland, thanks for the info; I´ll look at it!
As a non-coder (just yet :)), is this safe to connect to our instance of FabMan (I see that it´s only connected via webhooks, so there should be no connection back to FabMan)? @michael_Walchshofer I would love to know what you guys plan to do with HA.
Home Assistant controls the Fabman Bridges via the Fabman API. Additionally, HA periodically queries Fabman for the status of machines, also using the Fabman API. Depending on the polling interval, the status in HA might be slightly delayed.
To avoid this delay, you can optionally have Fabman actively send status updates to HA via Fabman webhooks. However, this requires the HA server to be accessible from the internet.
Regarding security: Since HA only communicates with Fabman via the official API and does not require direct database or system access, the integration follows standard authentication and permission mechanisms provided by Fabman. The webhook feature is optional, and if used, you should ensure that your HA instance is securely configured (e.g., HTTPS, authentication, firewall rules) to minimize exposure.
Integration & Documentation:
Alpha Stage – Looking for Feedback!
What use cases do you have in mind?