pwnkw_ha

Kenneth’s Home Assistant projects — self-contained, copy-pasteable add-ons for HA. Each one lives under projects/ with its own README and install steps, so you can grab just the piece you want.

Projects

Project	What it does
Discogs → Sonos Jukebox	Shows a random record from your Discogs collection on a dashboard tile — tap to play the album on Sonos (via Apple Music), double-tap to shuffle, hold to open Discogs, plus a “Play Artist Mix” button.
Mailbox Item Tracker	Live count of uncollected items in your remote/CMRA mailbox (e.g. Anytime Mailbox), counted in real time from the provider’s “new mail” emails via IMAP, and auto-reset to zero when you arrive to collect.
Nanoleaf Room Clock	Turns a Nanoleaf Lines bar into a linear clock — minutes fill left to right, with an outdoor-temperature gauge, an overnight heartbeat, and a meeting countdown that drains the bar to empty exactly at meeting time. AppDaemon app driving the device over its local REST API.

More on the way.

Conventions

Every project in this repo follows the same rules, so they’re predictable to install and safe to publish:

• Self-contained. Each project is a folder under projects/<name>/ with its own README.md plus whatever that project actually needs. Config-based projects carry sensors/, rest/, scripts.yaml, dashboard/ and a configuration.example.yaml showing the !include lines to add; standalone apps (e.g. AppDaemon) ship their code and their own example config instead.
• No secrets in git. All credentials go through Home Assistant’s secrets.yaml (git-ignored) referenced via !secret. See secrets.yaml.example for the values each project needs.
• Documented. Each project’s README covers requirements, install steps, and how it works.

Using a project

1. Open the project folder and read its README.md.
2. Add any required secrets to your secrets.yaml (see secrets.yaml.example).
3. Copy the project’s files into place — for config-based projects that means merging scripts.yaml and adding the !include lines from configuration.example.yaml; for standalone apps, follow the install steps in that project’s README.
4. Restart / reload as the project’s README says, then add its dashboard cards if it has any.

Adding a new project

Start from the scaffold in projects/_template/ (browsable on GitHub only — Jekyll excludes leading-underscore directories from this site):

1. Copy projects/_template/ to projects/<your-project>/.
2. Delete the .gitkeep files and any folders/stubs the project doesn’t use.
3. Fill in the project’s README.md.
4. Add a row to the Projects table above.
5. Append any secrets to secrets.yaml.example under a new heading.

Repo layout

pwnkw_ha/
├── README.md              # this index
├── LICENSE                # MIT
├── CNAME                  # custom domain for the published site
├── .gitignore             # excludes secrets.yaml, .storage, logs, db
├── .github/FUNDING.yml    # Sponsor button
├── secrets.yaml.example   # aggregated secret placeholders, grouped by project
└── projects/
    ├── README.md          # project index
    ├── _template/         # copy this to start a new project
    ├── discogs-jukebox/   # Discogs → Sonos random-record tile
    │   ├── README.md
    │   ├── configuration.example.yaml
    │   └── sensors/  rest/  scripts.yaml  dashboard/
    ├── mailbox-tracker/   # IMAP-driven mailbox item counter
    │   ├── README.md
    │   ├── configuration.example.yaml
    │   └── packages/  dashboard/
    └── nanoleaf-clock-bar/  # AppDaemon linear clock on Nanoleaf Lines
        ├── README.md
        ├── nanoleaf_clock_bar.py
        ├── appdaemon.example.yaml  apps.yaml.example
        └── tools/

Support

These projects are free and always will be. If one of them saved you an evening, you can buy me a beer 🍺

License

MIT — do what you like, no warranty. Trademarks (Discogs, Apple Music, Sonos) belong to their respective owners; this repo is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.

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