MHI-AC-Ctrl VS Gladys

Yep, I'm relatively new to Home Assistant but love it. Combined with ESPHome, I've got most of the lights in my house controlled (via switch changes, not smart bulbs), and my all my air conditioners via the MHI-AC-Ctrl project[1,2] (which is fantastic - ordered the boards from JLC-PCB, parts from Ali-Express, told ESPHome to program everything and plugged them into the ports and...it all just worked!).

Just got a Mitsubishi Electric (which is different to MHI) and a Daikin at my parents house to get online - but code for both exists and I suspect the MHI boards can be reprogrammed to fulfill the role without any hardware changes.

It's incredible that the future we wanted in like, 2010 can be had and had without selling your soul to the cloud: I can leave the house, and turn off all my lights and AC's while walking out the door, or get notified if I've left my garage open - without a single cloud provider dependency, all open-source.

[1] https://github.com/absalom-muc/MHI-AC-Ctrl/

[2] https://github.com/ginkage/MHI-AC-Ctrl-ESPHome

https://github.com/absalom-muc/MHI-AC-Ctrl Although Mitsubishi HI (heavy industries) is a different company to Mitsubishi so may not work

We are making Gladys Assistant ( https://gladysassistant.com/ ), an open-source smart home software.

It's less "techy" than HA (no YAML files, no CLI), and UI first.

We have way less integrations for now, but are working hard on it.

Don't hesitate to try it and make us some feedback.

My name is Pierre-Gilles and I'm the core maintainer of Gladys Assistant, an open-source smart home software based on Node.js/Preact.js (https://github.com/GladysAssistant/Gladys).

Nice project! Just one question, how do you find open-source projects?

I'm the core maintainer of an open-source smart home software (https://github.com/GladysAssistant/Gladys, 2.2k stars, has been existing since 2014), and is not listed, any reason why? :)

Link dump of assistants I want to check out, sadly with a noticeable home-automation slant: Leon, github readme, self-hosted server susi.ai, github AI-centric approach to an app/voice/text assistant Mycroft AI more AI. Dedicated hardware planned. Jasper voice-centric assistant Rhasspy, forum offline assistant services Home Assistant OpenHAB home automation integrator Gladys home assistant

Don't forget to stop writing to the database while doing the backup, otherwise you can run into an infinite loop if you write faster than sqlite3 .backup is doing the backup :D

Learned that the hard way when implementing sqlite3 backups on Gladys Assistant ( open-source home automation platform https://github.com/GladysAssistant/Gladys )