PiFire Home Assistant Integration

Home Assistant custom integration for PiFire.
This integration allows you to monitor and control your PiFire-powered pellet grill directly from Home Assistant.

Big shoutout and thanks to @nebhead for making PiFire Possible

📚 Official PiFire documentation is available here:
👉 PiFire Docs

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Screenshots

Here’s how the PiFire integration looks in Home Assistant:

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✨ Features

• ✅ Live grill temperature sensor
• ✅ Probe 1 & Probe 2 temperature sensors
• ✅ Pellet level and pellet type sensors
• ✅ Current grill mode, status, and units
• ✅ Control grill setpoints & notify temps
• ✅ One-click buttons for Startup, Shutdown, and Prime
• ✅ Mode selector (Stop / Smoke / Hold / Monitor, etc.)
• ✅ [Planned] Auto-discovery via Zeroconf & MQTT

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📂 File Structure

The integration lives under:

config/
└── custom_components/
└── pifire/
├── init.py
├── manifest.json
├── const.py
├── config_flow.py
├── sensor.py
├── number.py
├── select.py
├── switch.py
├── button.py
├── diagnostics.py
├── strings.json
└── translations/
└── en.json

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Installation

You can install the PiFire integration for Home Assistant either via HACS (recommended) or manually.

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Option 1: Install via HACS (Recommended)

1. Make sure you have HACS installed in your Home Assistant.

2. In Home Assistant, go to HACS → Integrations.

3. Open the menu (⋮) in the top right → Custom repositories.

4. Add this repository URL:https://github.com/VoidLock/ha-pifire Category: Integration

5. Back in HACS, search for PiFire under Integrations.

6. Click Download to install it.

7. Restart Home Assistant.

8. Go to Settings → Devices & Services → Add Integration.

9. Search for PiFire, then enter the host or IP of your PiFire controller (e.g. pifire.local or 192.168.x.x).

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Option 2: Manual Installation

1. Download the latest release of this repository as a ZIP file from the Releases page.
2. Extract the archive.
3. Copy the folder:custom_components/pifire into your Home Assistant config/custom_components/ directory.
   Your setup should look like:

config/
└── custom_components/
    └── pifire/
    ├── init.py
    ├── manifest.json
    ├── const.py
    ├── config_flow.py
    ├── sensor.py
    ├── number.py
    ├── button.py
    ├── select.py
    ├── pifire_client.py
    ├── strings.json
    └── translations/
        └── en.json

4. Restart Home Assistant.
5. Go to Settings → Devices & Services → Add Integration.
6. Search for PiFire, then enter the host or IP of your PiFire controller.

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Updating

• HACS installs: Update directly through the HACS UI when a new version is released.
• Manual installs: Replace the pifire folder inside custom_components with the new version from the Releases page, then restart Home Assistant.

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Font Attribution

This project’s logo uses the Orbitron font by Matt McInerney, licensed under the SIL Open Font License.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.