Fighting disease with a world wide distributed super computer.

Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project for performing molecular dynamics simulations of protein dynamics. Its initial focus was on protein folding but has shifted to more biomedical problems, such as Alzheimer's disease, cancer, Ebola and the coronavirus.

The project uses the idle processing resources of personal computers owned by volunteers who have installed the software on their systems.

Now you can donate the idle time of your Home Assistant instance to the Folding@home project, helping to fight these diseases.

Join the Home Assistant Folding@home team! (id: 247478)

Team stats: https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/247478

The installation of this add-on is pretty straightforward and not different in comparison to installing any other Home Assistant add-on.

1. Search for the "Folding@home" add-on in the add-on store.
2. Install the "Folding@home" add-on.
3. Start the "Folding@home" add-on.
4. Check the logs of the "Folding@home" to see if everything went well.
5. Open the Web UI.

Note: By default, the add-on joins the Home Assistant team (id: 247478).

Team stats: https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/247478

Note: Remember to restart the add-on when the configuration is changed.

Example add-on configuration:

log_level: info

The log_level option controls the level of log output by the addon and can be changed to be more or less verbose, which might be useful when you are dealing with an unknown issue. Possible values are:

• trace: Show every detail, like all called internal functions.
• debug: Shows detailed debug information.
• info: Normal (usually) interesting events.
• warning: Exceptional occurrences that are not errors.
• error: Runtime errors that do not require immediate action.
• fatal: Something went terribly wrong. Add-on becomes unusable.

Please note that each level automatically includes log messages from a more severe level, e.g., debug also shows info messages. By default, the log_level is set to info, which is the recommended setting unless you are troubleshooting.

It is possible to embed the Folding@home interface directly into Home Assistant, allowing you to access it through the Home Assistant frontend.

Home Assistant provides the panel_iframe integration, for these purposes.

Example configuration:

panel_iframe:
  foldingathome:
    title: Folding@home
    icon: mdi:bacteria-outline
    url: http://addres.to.your.hass.io:7396

• This add-on only runs on 64-bits intel-based computers. Folding@home does not support ARM devices (e.g., a Raspberry Pi).

This repository keeps a change log using GitHub's releases functionality. The format of the log is based on Keep a Changelog.

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.

Got questions?

You have several options to get them answered:

• The Home Assistant Community Add-ons Discord chat server for add-on support and feature requests.
• The Home Assistant Discord chat server for general Home Assistant discussions and questions.
• The Home Assistant Community Forum.
• Join the Reddit subreddit in /r/homeassistant

You could also open an issue here GitHub.

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

We have set up a separate document containing 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 contributor's page.

Want some more functionality to your Home Assistant instance?

We have created multiple add-ons for Home Assistant. For a full list, check out our GitHub Repository.

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Copyright (c) 2020 Franck Nijhof

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