Tips for integrationīecause the solution requires the registration of an app in your Azure AD environment – you need to have Global Admin privileges. Roger’s primary purpose for creating and maintaining this fork is simply to keep it alive for his own usage – so I don’t think he expected me to come along and start offering tweaks and feedback. The solution is itself a fork of a previously created integration that used Graph but has since been archived. I wanted something to integrate with my presence in real time, which is where I came across the O365-HomeAssistant custom component by Roger Selwyn. I’m not a fan of adding more dependencies onto my computer, especially as I often switch between two of them (sometimes using both at the same time in different rooms).
There are already a few solutions for changing your Microsoft Teams presence in Home Assistant, but these require something to run on the client side such as an application or even a PowerShell script. What does any of this have to do with Microsoft Teams you ask? Well, the LED strip was my segway – so just deal with my rambling, please! At the end of the day a workflow runs to switch the URL to display temperature around the house, and to turn off the LED strip. As a result, I have weekday automations that loads my calendar and presence information in DAKboard at the start of the day, as well as turning on the LED strip in the cabinet behind me. Because Fully Kiosk Browser can be integrated into Home Assistant – that means I can set the URL it loads via workflow. To make this DAKboard experience work well I use an app called Fully Kiosk Browser on Android to manage the screen sleep time, refresh, display, etc. I’m sure it could be done, but at $5pm that’s a better use of my time. Since my blog post about creating a Power App that displayed my calendar and call presence, I’ve actually replaced that system with DAKboard as it’s much simpler, feature-rich, and prettier than attempting to offer the same functionality in Power Apps. While Home Assistant offers a number of simple integrations out of the box, the real power is when you start adding in custom components and getting under the hood. I’ve previously written about being able to integrate Microsoft Teams with Alexa for changing your status, using Power Apps to display my current presence and calendar, Power Automate to change your Teams status message, using a Kuando Busylight to indicate whether you’re on a call, and I also have call indicators built into my Jabra Evolve 2 85 headset, but all of these only go so far due to their level of integration. If you’re unfamiliar with Home Assistant, it is an open-source home automation platform with A LOT of integrations and extensibility.
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