homelab-codex-ws/services/ha-diag-agent/README.md
Oskar Kapala 31b48d162a feat(ha-diag-agent): WebSocketMonitor for real-time HA liveness
- persistent WS connection to HA with auth + state_changed subscription
- watchdog detects silence > 5min → emits ha_websocket_dead
- immediate ha_websocket_dead on disconnect, exponential reconnect with jitter
- cooldown prevents alert spam (10min repeat window while HA stays down)
- ha_websocket_recovered emitted on reconnect after a dead alert (allows
  supervisor to clear active incidents in Phase 5)
- new monitors/ subpackage for long-running tasks (vs interval checks/)
- /health endpoint now includes ws_connected field
- 26 unit tests, 3 integration tests (real HA + container stop/restart)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 15:00:18 +02:00

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# ha-diag-agent
Per-host Home Assistant diagnostic agent. Polls HA REST API on a schedule,
emits structured events to `/opt/homelab/events/<node>/`, and exposes an
HTTP API for health checks and manual check triggers.
Follows the same event-pipeline pattern as `node-agent`: filesystem-first,
no direct supervisor integration, events processed by the VPS observer.
## Architecture
```
APScheduler (interval-based REST checks)
├─ HeartbeatCheck → pings /api/, emits ha_websocket_dead on failure
├─ UnavailableEntitiesCheck → entity unavailable > threshold
├─ SystemHealthCheck → /api/system_health per-integration status
├─ AutomationFailuresCheck → automation last-run error traces
└─ UpdatesAvailableCheck → pending HA/integration updates
WebSocketMonitor (persistent, long-running — Phase 4b)
└─ Maintains a live WS subscription to state_changed events
Any traffic = HA is alive. Watchdog fires ha_websocket_dead on
silence > 5min or on disconnect. Emits ha_websocket_recovered
when the connection is restored after a dead alert.
FastAPI (port 8087)
GET /health → liveness probe (includes ws_connected field)
POST /trigger/<check> → run a named check on demand
SQLite (/data/ha_diag.db)
entity_baseline → last-known entity states
check_history → per-check run log
alerts_sent → dedup gate for alert events
```
The WebSocketMonitor is the only persistent-connection component; all other
checks are APScheduler intervals (stateless REST polls).
## Event Types
| Type | Severity | Trigger |
|------|----------|---------|
| `ha_websocket_dead` | error | WS disconnect, silence > 5min, or /api/ unreachable |
| `ha_websocket_recovered` | info | WS reconnected after a dead alert (clears incident) |
| `ha_integration_failed` | error | Integration in error state |
| `ha_entity_unavailable_long` | warning | Entity unavailable > threshold |
| `ha_automation_failing` | warning | Automation last run errored |
| `ha_update_available` | info | HA or integration update pending |
| `ha_recorder_lag` | warning | Recorder write lag > threshold |
| `ha_system_health_degraded` | warning | System health check failed |
Event routing in supervisor (Phase 5) maps these to `notify` actions.
`ha_websocket_recovered` should be routed to clear any active `ha_websocket_dead` incident.
## Deployment model
The agent is deployed **per-host** but targets a potentially remote HA instance:
| Node | Agent runs on | HA lives on | HA URL |
|------|--------------|-------------|--------|
| piha | piha | piha (localhost) | `http://localhost:8123` |
| chelsty-infra | chelsty-infra | chelsty-ha (HAOS VM, separate machine) | `http://100.70.180.90:8123` |
**chelsty-infra note:** Home Assistant runs on `chelsty-ha`, a dedicated Home Assistant
OS VM. `chelsty-infra` is the hypervisor but does not run HA itself. The agent on
`chelsty-infra` reaches HA over the Tailscale network (`100.70.180.90:8123`). If `chelsty-ha`
gets a new Tailscale IP, update `HA_URL` in `/opt/homelab/config/ha-diag-agent/.env` on
`chelsty-infra`.
## Deployment
```bash
# 1. Create config on target node
ssh oskar@<node-ip>
mkdir -p /opt/homelab/config/ha-diag-agent /var/lib/ha-diag-agent
cat > /opt/homelab/config/ha-diag-agent/.env << 'EOF'
HA_URL=http://homeassistant.local:8123 # or http://100.70.180.90:8123 for chelsty-infra
HA_TOKEN=<long-lived-token>
NODE_NAME=piha # or chelsty-infra
LOCATION_TAG=ken # or chelsty
CHECK_INTERVAL=60
EOF
# 2. Deploy
scripts/deploy/deploy.sh --service ha-diag-agent
# 3. Verify
docker ps --filter name=ha-diag-agent
curl http://localhost:8087/health
```
### chelsty-infra note
`chelsty-infra` runs docker-compose v1 (1.29.2). Use `docker-compose` (hyphenated):
```bash
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d --build
```
### HA long-lived token
In HA UI: Profile → Long-Lived Access Tokens → Create token.
## Running Tests
```bash
cd services/ha-diag-agent
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest tests/ -v
```
## Optional YAML config
Place `/opt/homelab/config/ha-diag-agent/ha-diag-agent.yaml` on the node.
Values there are defaults; env vars take priority.
```yaml
ha_url: http://homeassistant.local:8123
location_tag: ken
check_interval: 60
```