Home Assistant BOINC Add-on

BOINC is an open-source software platform for computing using volunteered resources.

The BOINC add-on, running on your Home Assistant, downloads scientific computing jobs and runs them invisibly in the background.

Privileged mode

To allow suspending the BOINC client based on the CPU usage from other processes, this addon requires running in privileged mode.

How to use

Account Manager (Easy)

The easy way to use this addon is to attach the boicn client to a BOINC Account Manager.

Science United is recommended to simplify the process of start computing.

If you do not have an account created in an account manager, you need to create it and use the same username and password in the addon configuration.

For example, in Science United, you could sign up in this page: Join Science United.

After create the accountm, set the url of the account manager, your user and your password in the addon configuration or edit the yaml configuration.

account_manager_url: "https://scienceunited.org"
account_manager_username: "youremail@email.com"
account_manager_password: "yoursecretpassword"

Remote GUI RPC

Remote GUI RPC can be enabled in the addon configuration and use it to manage the boinc client remotely.

Global preferences override

To override the preferences of BOINC client a global_preferences_override.xml file could be defined in the addon config folder: Preferences Override