ha-deploy

name	ha-deploy
description	Use when deploying Home Assistant config, validating YAML packages, or verifying system health after changes. Replaces shell-based validation with 40-170x faster compiled checks.

HA Deployment Validation

Pre-deploy validation and post-deploy verification for Home Assistant config packages.

Pre-Deploy: Validate

Run before deploying config to HA:

homeassist validate ./packages                    # YAML syntax + structure
homeassist validate ./packages --check-entities   # + verify entity refs against live HA
homeassist validate ./packages --check-registry   # + detect orphaned entity registry entries

What it checks

• YAML syntax and structure
• Package exclusion (blocked top-level keys like recorder, logger in packages)
• Automation syntax (trigger/action required, alias recommended, blueprint-aware)
• Sensor/binary_sensor platform validation
• Circular reference detection (template sensors referencing themselves)
• Jinja2 template balance
• Duplicate entity IDs across files
• Common errors (tabs, bare unavailable, None thresholds)
• File cruft (backup files, temp files)
• Entity references exist in live HA (--check-entities)
• Orphaned entity registry entries (--check-registry, via WebSocket)

Exit codes

• 0 — no errors (warnings are non-blocking)
• 1 — errors found, do not deploy

Post-Deploy: Verify

Run after deploying and reloading HA:

homeassist verify                              # Health check
homeassist verify --baseline snapshot.json     # Compare against baseline

What it checks

• HA configuration validity
• Entity counts (total, unavailable, unknown)
• Automation states (on/off)
• Baseline delta (did unavailable count increase?)

Full Deploy Workflow

# 1. Validate locally
homeassist validate ./packages --check-entities --check-registry || exit 1

# 2. Deploy (rsync, git pull, etc.)
rsync -av packages/ root@ha-host:/config/packages/

# 3. Reload
homeassist config reload all

# 4. Verify
homeassist verify --baseline snapshot.json

Performance

Step	Shell script	homeassist
YAML validation (157 files)	~30s	0.12s
+ entity ref checks	~35s	0.25s
Full validate + verify	~42s	1.3s