esphome-ratgdo VS home-assistant.io

ratgdo looks really nice! I've been controlling my garage door via dry contact on my Elk security system [1] and monitoring the door status via a separate rolling door reed sensor. [2] But from following the ratgdo link, I learned that my "Security+ 1.0" garage door opener has a RS-232 interface with a protocol that will tell you about door status and obstructions. That's better!

I just clicked the buy link on the ratgdo thing to support the nice, well-documented open-source [3] project. In truth though I have the right hardware sitting around here already, so I might just use that depending on how long the "back ordered" status lasts...

[1] There's a Home Assistant integration for the Elk M1 Gold with some Python library; I also have my own WIP Rust library for interacting with it here: <https://github.com/scottlamb/elkm1>

[2] something like this one: https://www.amazon.com/Gebildet-Security-Rolling-Magnetic-Ap...

[3] docs at <https://paulwieland.github.io/ratgdo/> but the actual code is in a separate repo at <https://github.com/ratgdo/esphome-ratgdo>

> What's the blocker here?

It's an open source project. Stuff generally gets worked on by people who care about features. You seem to care about this. https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io

As the next step the content of the image should be written to zvol. Might help: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/issues/25294

I found a very simple solution for this here:

Thanks for digging into this! Based on your response and the response from u/antirobot, it appears neither the ESPHome server nor the embedded client support wsMQTT (makes sense because I was looking in vain for an option to specify the connection type). It appears HA only recently added support for wsMQTT, so I'm not too surprised.

The LIFX doc update is here: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/pull/22383

If coding isn't your thing, you can contribute to the Home Assistant Docs and help make tutorials and documentation more accessible. Make sure you read the contribution guidelines for understanding their contribution process. This team is super great to work with; I've already made a few contributions to their docs.

Just came across this mention of zeroconf fix in HA HomeKit bridge, might be helpful.

If you find any issues with the documentation, you can comment on the PR at https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/pull/15555