🚀 Frenck's GitHub Action for gathering information from an Home Assistant Add-on.

This GitHub Action is able to extract information from a Home Assistant Add-on, for use in other GitHub Actions.

It contains information like name, slug, architectures, and a lot more.

jobs:
  information:
    name: Gather add-on information
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    outputs:
      name: ${{ steps.information.outputs.name }}
      description: ${{ steps.information.output.description }}
      architectures: ${{ steps.information.outputs.architectures }}
    steps:
      - name: ⤵️ Check out code from GitHub
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: 🚀 Run add-on information
        id: information
        uses: frenck/action-addon-information@v1

By default, the Action will try to find the add-on in the repository. However, if you have multiple add-on in a single repository, this can become a problem.

Using the path argument, you can point the Action towards the specific add-on you'd like to get information from.

- name: 🚀 Run Home Assistant Add-on Information
  id: information
  uses: frenck/action-addon-information@v1
  with:
    path: "./addon"

The Action provides the following information as output:

This repository keeps a change log using GitHub's releases functionality.

Releases are based on Semantic Versioning, and use the format of MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH. In a nutshell, the version will be incremented based on the following:

• MAJOR: Incompatible or major changes.
• MINOR: Backwards-compatible new features and enhancements.
• PATCH: Backwards-compatible bugfixes and package updates.

You can specify which version of this GitHub Action your workflow should use. And even allowing for using the latest major or minor version.

For example; this will use release v1.1.1 of a GitHub Action:

- name: 🚀 Run Home Assistant Add-on Information
  uses: frenck/[email protected]

While the following example, will use the v1.1.x minor release, for example if v1.1.2 is the latest releases (starting with v1.1), this will run v1.1.2:

- name: 🚀 Run Home Assistant Add-on Information
  uses: frenck/[email protected]

As in the examples throughout the documentation, the following example is locked on major version, meaning any v1.x.x latest version will be used, as long as it is version 1.

- name: 🚀 Run Home Assistant Add-on Information
  uses: frenck/action-addon-information@v1

The advantage of locking against a more specific version, is that it prevents surprises if an issue or breaking changes were introduced in a newer release.

The disadvantage of being more specific, is that it requires you to keep things up to date. Fortunately, GitHub has a tool for that, called: Dependabot.

Dependabot can automatically open a pull request on your repository to update this Action for you. You can instantly see if the new version works (as the pull request shows the success or failure status) and you can decide to merge it in by hitting the merge button. Quick, easy and always up2date.

To enable Dependabot, create a file called .github/dependabot.yaml:

version: 2
updates:
  - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
    directory: "/"
    schedule:
      interval: daily

Your all set! Dependabot will now check (and update) your GitHub actions every day. 🤩

This is an active open-source project. We are always open to people who want to use the code or contribute to it.

We've set up a separate document for our contribution guidelines.

Thank you for being involved! 😍

The original setup of this repository is by Franck Nijhof.

For a full list of all authors and contributors, check the contributors page.

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