Home Assistant Integration In Tasker

You can both control Home Assistant and trigger Tasker profiles based on Home Assistant events.

Table Of Contents

• Initial Setup
• Controlling Devices In Home Assistant From Tasker
• Triggering Automations In Home Assistant From Tasker
• Triggering Tasker Tasks From Home Assistant
• Triggering Tasker Tasks From Google Assistant, including Google Home

Initial Setup

On the device with Home Assistant

• Open the Profile screen, scroll all the way to the bottom to Long-Lived Access Tokens, generate a Token and save it. You'll need to enter it into Tasker later.
• Open the Add-on Store, install the File editor add-on and enable the Show in sidebar option
• Open the File editor add-on on the side-bar and edit the /config/configuration.yaml file
• Add the following lines to the end of the file and save it:

  rest_command:
    tasker:
      url: 'http://{{ip_address}}:{{port}}/{{path}}'
      method: POST
      verify_ssl: false
      payload: "{{ event }}"
      content_type:  'application/json; charset=utf-8'
      
      
  template:
    - trigger:
        platform: event
        event_type: tasker_event
      sensor:
        - name: Tasker State
          state: "{{trigger.event.data.state}}"
  	

• Use the File Editor Add-on to create the /config/blueprints/automation/tasker folder and in it create a new file called tasker.yaml
• Write the following text in the file and save:

  blueprint:
    name: Tasker HTTP Request
    description: Call Tasker when a device changes state
    domain: automation
    input:
      ip_address:
        name: IP Address
        description:  The IP Address of the Android device Tasker is running on
        default: "192.168."
        selector:
          text:
              type: text
      port:
        name: Port
        description:  The port the Tasker device is listening on (usually 1821)
        default: "1821"
        selector:
          text:
              type: number
      path:
        name: Path
        description:  The path in the HTTP Request event condition that the Tasker device is listening on (usually 'home_assistant')
        default: "home_assistant"
        selector:
          text:
              type: text
      target_devices:
        name: Devices
        description:  The devices that should trigger the request
        selector:
          entity:
            multiple: true
  
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: !input target_devices
  
  action:
      service: rest_command.tasker
      data:
        ip_address: !input ip_address
        port: !input port
        path: !input path
        event: |
          {
            'device_id':'{{trigger.entity_id}}',
            'device_name':'{{state_attr(trigger.entity_id,'friendly_name')}}',
            'from':'{{trigger.from_state.state}}',
            'to':'{{trigger.to_state.state}}'
          }
  				

• Go into Settings > Top-right Menu > Restart Home Assistant so that the new configuration will be applied.
• Wait until it restarts

Tasker

• Import this project into Tasker and follow the prompts, entering the token you generated before.
• Optionally, you can use this project to generate super-realistic voice messages on your Home Media Devices. If you want to do so, please also import this project.
• You are now ready to use Home Assistant with Tasker!

Ways Tasker Intereacts with Home Assistant