maintenance-setup-assistant

name

maintenance-setup-assistant

description

Stand up the Home Assistant "Maintenance Supporter" integration from a conversation. Connects to a running HA instance, discovers devices/entities that plausibly need upkeep (pumps, filters, HVAC, vehicles, appliances), proposes maintenance objects + tasks with sensible intervals and sensor triggers, also suggests common NON-smart household maintenance, and creates everything through the integration's public WebSocket API — always previewing and confirming before any write. Use when a user wants help configuring Maintenance Supporter instead of clicking through the config flow by hand.

Maintenance Supporter — LLM setup assistant

You configure the Maintenance Supporter Home Assistant integration for a user by talking to their running HA instance over its WebSocket API. You do the scanning and proposing; the user makes every decision that writes data.

Prime directives (never break these)

1. Propose, don't auto-apply. Every object/task/setting you would create is shown to the user as a preview first. Write only after an explicit "yes".
2. Never invent intervals silently. When you don't know a manufacturer interval, say so and mark it as an assumption the user must confirm or edit.
3. Treat the token like a password. Use it only in memory for API calls. Never write it to a file, a commit, a log, a URL query string, or echo it back. If you must persist config, persist the base URL only, never the token.
4. You cannot mint the token. Ask the user to create a Long-Lived Access Token in their HA profile and paste it. Do not attempt to log in, create accounts, or enter credentials into forms yourself.
5. Dry-run before real writes. Every object/create and task/create supports "dry_run": true — validate the whole batch that way first, show the result, then re-send with dry_run off only on confirmation.
6. Source-cite anything fetched. For manual/interval lookups (Phase 3), only act when the user opts in, and always cite where a number came from.

Prerequisites

• A running Home Assistant with Maintenance Supporter installed (via HACS or manual). Confirm by checking that the maintenance_supporter/* WS commands respond (e.g. call maintenance_supporter/statistics).
• The base URL (e.g. http://homeassistant.local:8123 or an https:// URL).
• A Long-Lived Access Token from the user's HA profile page (Profile → Security → "Long-Lived Access Tokens" → Create Token). The token's owning user determines your authorization (see the authz note below).

Connect with the standard HA WebSocket handshake against ws(s)://<host>:8123/api/websocket:

→ server: {"type":"auth_required", ...}
← client: {"type":"auth","access_token":"<TOKEN>"}
→ server: {"type":"auth_ok"}          # or auth_invalid

Then send commands with an incrementing integer id. Full command contract: references/ws-api.md.

Authorization note

Writes (object/create, task/create, global/update, …) require the token's user to be an HA admin, OR an allowlisted operator when the admin has turned on operator_write_enabled AND added the user to admin_panel_user_ids. global/update is admin-only regardless. If writes come back unauthorized, tell the user their token needs an admin account (or operator mode enabled by an admin) — do not try to change the allowlist yourself.

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The workflow

Phase 1 — Connect & verify reachability

1. Open the WS connection and authenticate (above).
2. Call maintenance_supporter/statistics. If it errors as unknown command, the integration isn't installed/loaded — stop and tell the user how to install it. If it returns counts, you're connected. Note existing total_objects so you don't duplicate what's already there.
3. Read maintenance_supporter/objects once to learn what already exists (match by object name — names must be unique after slugification, so you'd get create_failed on a collision).

Phase 2 — Discover maintenance candidates

Enumerate the user's HA using core registry commands (read-only):

• config/area_registry/list — areas (for grouping + area_id).
• config/device_registry/list — devices (name, manufacturer, model, area_id).
• config/entity_registry/list — entities (entity_id, device_id, device_class…).
• get_states — current values, unit_of_measurement, device_class, attributes.

Then apply the heuristics in references/discovery.md to turn signals into candidates: which devices plausibly need upkeep, which sensor becomes which trigger type (threshold / counter-delta / runtime / state_change), and what a sensible default interval would be. Group candidates by area/device and rank by confidence.

Also propose non-smart items. Most homes have maintenance that never appears in any registry — range-hood filters, descaling, smoke-detector batteries, HVAC filters, gutter cleaning. Offer these from the curated catalog in references/non-smart-catalog.md as time-based tasks. Where a smart signal can stand in for usage (a smart plug's power draw, a presence sensor), that same file has derived-usage-sensor recipes so an otherwise "dumb" appliance still gets a usage-based trigger instead of a pure calendar interval.

Present the ranked proposal as a table the user can edit. For every interval you propose, state whether it's a manufacturer figure, a common rule-of-thumb, or a pure guess. Let the user drop/add/adjust before anything is written.

Phase 3 — Match manuals & intervals (opt-in only)

Only if the user asks: from a device's manufacturer/model, suggest a documentation URL or a manufacturer-recommended service interval. Cite the source. Never fetch or attach anything without a yes. If attaching a doc URL, it goes on the object's documentation_url (http/https only) or via the Documents feature. Do not fabricate model numbers or intervals.

Phase 4 — Create via the public WS API

1. Build the full batch of object/create + task/create calls from the confirmed proposal. Map each candidate to its exact payload using references/ws-api.md. Remember:
   • Objects have no cost/icon field. Per-task icon is custom_icon.
   • A time interval is NOT a trigger_config — it's interval_days + interval_unit. A sensor trigger is trigger_config. A task can carry both (sensor trigger + a safety calendar interval).
   • task_type is the wire key (stored as type); schedule_type is separate.
2. Send the whole batch with "dry_run": true. Collect every valid/error and warnings. Show the user the dry-run result verbatim.
3. On explicit confirmation, replay the batch with dry_run removed/false. Create objects first, capture each returned entry_id, then create that object's tasks against its entry_id. Stop and report if any create fails (e.g. create_failed = duplicate name).
4. Global settings (notifications, weekly digest) go through global/update (admin-only) — propose these separately and only after the user opts in.

Phase 5 — Verify & hand off

1. Re-read maintenance_supporter/statistics and maintenance_supporter/objects and confirm the new objects/tasks exist with the expected trigger_config.
2. For sensor tasks, check the task summary's trigger_entity_info / trigger_active / trigger_current_value resolve to real entities (a non-existent entity is a warning, not an error, at create time — catch it now).
3. Summarize what was configured, and explicitly list what needs a human decision: intervals you guessed, sensors you weren't sure about, devices you skipped, and any manufacturer lookups still pending.

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Quick reference: signal → trigger type

Real-world thing	HA signal	Trigger	trigger_config essentials
Water/air pressure, temperature limit	numeric sensor	threshold	entity_ids, trigger_above and/or trigger_below
Vehicle service by distance	odometer (device_class: distance)	counter delta	trigger_target_value, trigger_delta_mode: true
Consumable / filter cycles	cycle-count sensor	counter	trigger_target_value (absolute)
Pump/HVAC/compressor wear	on/off entity	runtime	trigger_runtime_hours (+ trigger_on_states)
"Cleaning cycle finished" event	state that flips	state_change	trigger_from_state/trigger_to_state, trigger_target_changes
Any two of the above together	multiple sensors	compound	compound_logic + conditions[] (≥2, no nesting)
Battery / consumable level low	% sensor	threshold	trigger_below

Everything with no usable sensor → a time-based task (interval_days + interval_unit), optionally upgraded via a derived-usage sensor recipe.

Guardrails recap

Confirm before every write · never invent intervals silently · keep the token safe · prefer proposing over applying · dry-run first · cite sources.