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Home Assistant and Yourls integration

Save yourself the work of writing custom integrations for Home Assistant and Yourls and use n8n instead. Build adaptable and scalable Miscellaneous, and Utility workflows that work with your technology stack. All within a building experience you will love.

How to connect Home Assistant and Yourls

  • Step 1: Create a new workflow
  • Step 2: Add and configure nodes
  • Step 3: Connect
  • Step 4: Customize and extend your integration
  • Step 5: Test and activate your workflow

Step 1: Create a new workflow and add the first step

In n8n, click the "Add workflow" button in the Workflows tab to create a new workflow. Add the starting point – a trigger on when your workflow should run: an app event, a schedule, a webhook call, another workflow, an AI chat, or a manual trigger. Sometimes, the HTTP Request node might already serve as your starting point.

Home Assistant and Yourls integration: Create a new workflow and add the first step

Step 2: Add and configure Home Assistant and Yourls nodes

You can find Home Assistant and Yourls in the nodes panel. Drag them onto your workflow canvas, selecting their actions. Click each node, choose a credential, and authenticate to grant n8n access. Configure Home Assistant and Yourls nodes one by one: input data on the left, parameters in the middle, and output data on the right.

Home Assistant and Yourls integration: Add and configure Home Assistant and Yourls nodes

Step 3: Connect Home Assistant and Yourls

A connection establishes a link between Home Assistant and Yourls (or vice versa) to route data through the workflow. Data flows from the output of one node to the input of another. You can have single or multiple connections for each node.

Home Assistant and Yourls integration: Connect Home Assistant and Yourls

Step 4: Customize and extend your Home Assistant and Yourls integration

Use n8n's core nodes such as If, Split Out, Merge, and others to transform and manipulate data. Write custom JavaScript or Python in the Code node and run it as a step in your workflow. Connect Home Assistant and Yourls with any of n8n’s 1000+ integrations, and incorporate advanced AI logic into your workflows.

Home Assistant and Yourls integration: Customize and extend your Home Assistant and Yourls integration

Step 5: Test and activate your Home Assistant and Yourls workflow

Save and run the workflow to see if everything works as expected. Based on your configuration, data should flow from Home Assistant to Yourls or vice versa. Easily debug your workflow: you can check past executions to isolate and fix the mistake. Once you've tested everything, make sure to save your workflow and activate it.

Home Assistant and Yourls integration: Test and activate your Home Assistant and Yourls workflow

Build your own Home Assistant and Yourls integration

Create custom Home Assistant and Yourls workflows by choosing triggers and actions. Nodes come with global operations and settings, as well as app-specific parameters that can be configured. You can also use the HTTP Request node to query data from any app or service with a REST API.

Home Assistant supported actions

Get Screenshot
Get the camera screenshot
Get
Get the configuration
Check Configuration
Check the configuration
Create
Create an event
Get Many
Get many events
Get Error Logs
Get a log for a specific entity
Get Logbook Entries
Get all logs
Call
Call a service within a specific domain
Get Many
Get many services
Create or Update
Create a new record, or update the current one if it already exists (upsert)
Get
Get a state for a specific entity
Get Many
Get many states
Create
Create a template

Yourls supported actions

Expand
Expand a URL
Shorten
Shorten a URL
Stats
Get stats about one short URL

FAQs

  • Can Home Assistant connect with Yourls?

  • Can I use Home Assistant’s API with n8n?

  • Can I use Yourls’s API with n8n?

  • Is n8n secure for integrating Home Assistant and Yourls?

  • How to get started with Home Assistant and Yourls integration in n8n.io?

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Simple debugging

Your data is displayed alongside your settings, making edge cases easy to track down.

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