Custom services common options documentation

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# Custom Services

Some service can use a specific a component that provides some extra features by adding a `type` key to the service yaml
configuration. Available services are in `src/components/`. Here is an overview of all custom services that are available
within Homer.

If you experiencing any issue, please have a look to the [troubleshooting](troubleshooting.md) page.


## Common options

```yaml
- name: "My Service"
  logo: "assets/tools/sample.png"
  url: "http://my-service-link"
  endpoint: "http://my-service-endpoint" # Optional: alternative base URL used to fetch service data is necessary.
  type: "<type>"
```

## PiHole

Using the PiHole service you can display info about your local PiHole instance right on your Homer dashboard.

The following configuration is available for the PiHole service.

```yaml
- name: "Pi-hole"
  logo: "assets/tools/sample.png"
  # subtitle: "Network-wide Ad Blocking" # optional, if no subtitle is defined, PiHole statistics will be shown
  url: "http://192.168.0.151/admin"
  type: "PiHole"
```

## OpenWeatherMap

Using the OpenWeatherMap service you can display weather information about a given location.
The following configuration is available for the OpenWeatherMap service:

```yaml
- name: "Weather"
  location: "Amsterdam" # your location.
  locationId: "2759794" # Optional: Specify OpenWeatherMap city ID for better accuracy
  apiKey: "<---insert-api-key-here--->" # insert your own API key here. Request one from https://openweathermap.org/api.
  units: "metric" # units to display temperature. Can be one of: metric, imperial, kelvin. Defaults to kelvin.
  background: "square" # choose which type of background you want behind the image. Can be one of: square, cicle, none. Defaults to none.
  type: "OpenWeather"
```

**Remarks:**
If for some reason your city can't be found by entering the name in the `location` property, you could also try to configure the OWM city ID in the `locationId` property. To retrieve your specific City ID, go to the [OWM website](https://openweathermap.org), search for your city and retrieve the ID from the URL (for example, the City ID of Amsterdam is 2759794).

## Medusa

This service displays News (grey), Warning (orange) or Error (red) notifications bubbles from the Medusa application.
Two lines are needed in the config.yml :

```yaml
  type: "Medusa"
  apikey: "01234deb70424befb1f4ef6a23456789"
```

The url must be the root url of Medusa application.
The Medusa API key can be found in General configuration > Interface. It is needed to access Medusa API.

## Sonarr/Radarr

This service displays Activity (blue), Warning (orange) or Error (red) notifications bubbles from the Radarr/Sonarr application.
Two lines are needed in the config.yml :

```yaml
  type: "Radarr" or "Sonarr"
  apikey: "01234deb70424befb1f4ef6a23456789"
```

The url must be the root url of Radarr/Sonarr application.
The Radarr/Sonarr API key can be found in Settings > General. It is needed to access the API.

## PaperlessNG

For Paperless you need an API-Key which you have to store at the item in the field `apikey`.

## Ping

For Ping you need to set the type to Ping and provide a url.

```yaml
- name: "Awesome app"
  type: Ping
  logo: "assets/tools/sample.png"
  subtitle: "Bookmark example" tag: "app" 
  url: "https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/" 
```