Home Assistant Integration

Display Oh Dear uptime monitoring in your Home Assistant smart home dashboard.

by Owen Voke

Oh Dear for Home Assistant #

Bring your website monitoring into your smart home dashboard. This Home Assistant integration, created by Owen Voke, displays Oh Dear uptime data as sensors you can use in automations and dashboards.

For a detailed walkthrough, see Owen's blog post about the integration.

Features #

Uptime Sensors: Create sensors for each monitored site showing uptime status
Dashboard Cards: Display site status using Lovelace cards
Automations: Trigger Home Assistant automations when sites go down
History Tracking: View uptime history in Home Assistant's history panel

Installation via HACS (Recommended) #

Add the custom repository: https://github.com/owenvoke/hass-ohdear
Search for "Oh Dear" and install the integration
Add the integration via the Home Assistant UI
Enter your Site ID and API token from the Oh Dear API Tokens page

Manual Installation #

Download the ZIP from the GitHub repository
Extract custom_components/ohdear to your Home Assistant installation
Add the integration via the UI with your Site ID and API token

Uptime Card Integration #

This integration pairs nicely with the custom Uptime Card. Use succeeded instead of ok for the status:

type: custom:uptime-card
entity: sensor.example_org_uptime
status_adaptive_color: true
ok: succeeded

Debug Logging #

If you encounter issues, enable debug logging via YAML:

logger:
  default: warning
  logs:
    custom_components.ohdear: debug
    ohdear: debug

Report issues on the GitHub repository.

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