Feature Request: Home Assistant Add-on / HACS Integration for Homebox with Status Entity Exposure

[kenibarwick]

What is the problem you are trying to solve with this feature?

I’d like to propose a Home Assistant integration—either as a full Home Assistant Add-on or a HACS custom integration—that enables users to run and interface with Homebox natively within Home Assistant. Additionally, exposing the status of individual items stored in Homebox (e.g. warranties, expiry dates, usage states, critical equipment statuses) as entities would unlock significant automation potential.

What is the solution you are proposing?

1. Home Assistant Add-on:
   • Containerized deployment of Homebox within the HA supervisor.
   • Easy installation and update management from the HA Add-on Store.
   • Accessible via HA Ingress or direct IP:port.
   2. HACS Custom Integration:
   • Integration that connects to an existing Homebox instance (remote or local).
   • Reads item statuses, expiry dates, and custom tags.
   • Exposes these as sensor or binary_sensor entities in Home Assistant.
   • Support for custom attributes (e.g., purchase date, serial number) for advanced automations.

What alternatives have you considered?

No response

Additional context

Many Home Assistant users already use HA as the hub of their smart home and infrastructure management. Homebox, being purpose-built for tracking physical assets and devices, complements this well.

By integrating Homebox with HA, users could:
• Automate reminders or actions based on expiry dates (e.g., send a notification or update a dashboard when a warranty is close to expiring).
• Surface the status of IT/home equipment (e.g., “laptop out for repair”, “TV warranty expired”) directly within Lovelace dashboards.
• Allow integrations with existing systems like calendars, notification engines, or even routines (e.g., flashing a smart light when a key asset becomes overdue).
• Centralize system health and asset tracking into one UI—perfect for home labs and enthusiast setups.

Why This Matters

Home Assistant is widely used for monitoring, automation, and alerting, while Homebox excels at structured asset documentation. Marrying the two tools via an integration would make both substantially more powerful—bringing documentation and status awareness into the proactive automation realm.

Homebox data is currently passive. Integration would make it actionable—bridging the gap between information and automation.

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Similar Precedents

Other projects (e.g., Vaultwarden, SABnzbd) already maintain official or community add-ons/integrations, which demonstrates strong adoption and long-term viability when combined with HA.

Contributions

• I have searched through existing ideas in the discussions to check if this is a duplicate

[tonyaellie]

https://github.com/sysadminsmedia/homebox-ha-addon exists tho I believe it needs work