Local add-on testing

The fastest way to develop add-ons is by adding them to your local add-on repository. To access your local add-on repository, install either the Samba add-on or SSH add-on.

Right now add-ons will work with images that are stored on Docker Hub (using image from add-on config). Without image inside local add-ons repository it to be built on the device.

Local run

You can build an try the addon on your developer machine also. Move all addon stuff into a temp folder. Replace in the Dockerfile %%BASE_IMAGE%% with:

• armhf: homeassistant/armhf-base:latest
• aarch64: homeassistant/aarch64-base:latest
• amd64: homeassistant/amd64-base:latest
• i386: homeassistant/i386-base:latest

Add also a LABEL io.hass.version="xy" into your dockerfile. Use docker to build the test addon: docker build -t local/my-test-addon .

Create a new folder for data and add a test options.json file. After that you can run your add-on with: docker run --rm -v /tmp/my_test_data:/data -p PORT_STUFF_IF_NEEDED local/my-test-addon

Logs

All stdout and stderr is redirected to the Docker logs. The logs can be fetched from the add-on page inside the Hass.io panel in Home Assistant.