Setting up Vscode to directly contact Home Assistant MCP without stdio

[S0ulf3re]

I'm trying to setup Home Assistant MCP into Visual Studio Code through a direct connection without the use of stdio or anything. But I'm confused about where I actually add an authentication token, and I'm not sure what I need to add to the config so that I can actually authenticate responses.

This is the setup I have:

[julienld]

You right. Something got lost in the instructions.

When using the Home Assistant Addon, it will generate a private (secret) URL that can ben then put behind a reverse proxy (if you are using it remotely). See Home assistant addon logs to get it.

However, using uvx with VSCode is simpler. try that #392 (comment) or the "local machine" instructions for VSCode.

Since there is so many ways of using an the MCP server (and all MCP server in general), things gets confusing. We need to re-think the setup instructions.

[S0ulf3re]

Ah thanks, I was mainly asking because I'm experimenting with MCP a bit right now and I'm looking at possibly subscribing to Claude Pro or ChatGPT Pro. And I'm only really interested in doing so if I can configure this (among a few other apps I use with MCP support) in a way that they can be accessed from beyond my main computer.

[julienld]

I tried both Claude Pro and ChatGPT Plus.

Both works with this MCP with the private URL method. Claude.AI also work with the Oauth (ChatGPT.com should also work). See #525 for OAuth references.

However, the last time I tried in December, the MCP support in ChatGPT.com was not good. You have to be in "dev mode" and you can't access memories and I don't think it works from the mobile app. You would have to use it with Codex instead, maybe with the Happy mobile app.

If your goal is to use this MCP mobile / remote. I would go with Claude Pro. Works well.