Home Assistant

Server-sent Events

The server-sent events feature is a one-way channel from your Home Assistant server to a client which is acting as a consumer. For bi-directional communication check the RESTful API and Python API.

The URI that is generating the data is /api/stream.

A requirement on the client-side is existing support for the EventSource interface.

There are various ways to access the stream. One is curl:

$ curl -X GET -H "x-ha-access: YOUR_PASSWORD" http://localhost:8123/api/stream

For more comfort put the HTML snippet below in a file sse.html in your www folder of your Home Assistant configuration directory (.homeassistant)

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
    <h1>Getting Home Assistant server events</h1>
    <div id="events"></div>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        var source = new EventSource("/api/stream");
        source.onmessage = function(event) {
            document.getElementById("events").innerHTML += event.data + "<br>";
        };
    </script>
</body>
</html>

Visit https://localhost:8123/local/sse.html to see the stream of events.

Example

The home-assistant-sse repository contains an more advanced example.