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C-Gate Web Bridge for Home Assistant

This repository is the Home Assistant add-on distribution for cgateweb — a bridge between Clipsal C-Bus lighting/automation systems and Home Assistant via MQTT.

What This Repository Is

This repo is checked by Home Assistant Supervisor for add-on version updates. It is automatically synced from the source repository whenever a new version is tagged. You add this repo URL to Home Assistant to install and receive updates for the C-Gate Web Bridge add-on.

You do not need to clone or modify this repository to use the add-on.

Source Code

All source code, development, and issue tracking lives in the main repository:

dougrathbone/cgateweb

Questions, Bugs, and Feature Requests

Please submit all issues and questions to the source repository:

Pull Requests

Pull requests should be submitted to the source repository, not this one:

Submit a PR to dougrathbone/cgateweb

PRs submitted to this distribution repository will be closed — changes here are overwritten on each release by the automated sync workflow.

Installation

  1. In Home Assistant, go to Settings > Add-ons > Add-on Store
  2. Click the three-dot menu (top right) and select Repositories
  3. Add this URL: https://github.com/dougrathbone/cgateweb-homeassistant
  4. Find C-Gate Web Bridge in the add-on store and click Install
  5. Configure the add-on with your C-Gate server address and C-Bus project name
  6. Start the add-on — your C-Bus devices will appear in Home Assistant automatically

Quick Start Configuration

The add-on only requires three settings to get started:

Setting Description Example
C-Gate Host IP address of your C-Gate server 192.168.1.50
C-Gate Project Your C-Bus project name in C-Gate HOME
C-Gate Mode remote for external C-Gate, managed to run locally remote

All other settings (MQTT, discovery, monitoring) have sensible defaults and are auto-detected where possible. Optional settings can be revealed via "Show unused optional configuration options" in the add-on configuration UI.

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