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iot_devices
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Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
Wow, what a great idea for a thread!
I'm trying to pare down my personal projects to just the really exciting ones, so I don't have much, butni think the most appropriate to the thread is https://github.com/EternityForest/iot_devices
It's mean to be a cross-framework library for creating device integrations, so you can, say, write a handler for RTL SDR weather stations, and use it in a simple script up to a mega framework.
I kind of dislike the way HASS and others handle automations where they have special purpose primitives for everything that needs lots of hand written code.
I just have config entries, they must be strings, and data points, they can be strings, numbers, bytes, or objects. You can put metadata on them. There's also a few other utilities like the ability to make subdevices, and the ability to request things from the host.
There are no special subclasses, a light bulb is just a device with a brightness point.
It currently runs my security system with object detection recording, QR decoding if desired, multiple regions, motion detection without decoding every frame, and subsecond latency streaming to the browser, a nice recordings browser that can view a recording while it's being made, etc.
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How I wrote my own Smart Home software
My HA platform project started in 2013. Every few months or so I check back to see if HA has progressed far enough that I can ditch one of the last custom apps in my life.
It's getting there. But it's not quite there yet. Last I checked the logging still saves every change, it's not easy to set up so that it will only save average/min/max over time to save SD wear.
Creating new integrations is easy but still not quite a five minute job like it is with my extension API(https://github.com/EternityForest/iot_devices)
But yet, having custom software in one's life is generally IMHO far more of a liability than an asset.
So what I actually do is just use YoLink and Google assistant for everything I possibly can, and use custom software for video recording and unusual stuff YoLink doesn't do.
I'd love to have a one size fits all "If it need automating, use this" platform, and HA seems like it's got the potential.... but just using the YoLink proprietary platform is the lazy, trouble free, super cheap way.
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Ask HN: Who Wants to Collaborate?
I'm working on a standard for easy drop-in home IoT drivers: https://github.com/EternityForest/iot_devices
Maybe you could go one level of meta up and instead of working on reusable components, work on reusable definitions for component interfaces.
Reuse is hard because you need a bunch of glue code. But if you had, like a standard for a toolbar, that knew how to find all the ToolbarAble objects, and the shopping cart icon just showed up, etc, things would get easier.
The shopping cart could know to look for all the payment requesting components declared in your Big Project File or whatever, and everything could stay modular ish?
GitHub is already the standard place to share generic projects.
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Home automation dashboard generator in the terminal
Source code can be found here: https://github.com/EternityForest/iot_devices
- Minimalistic framework for creating IoT reusable Python IoT device drivers
ghidra-unlinker-scripts
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Show HN: A Ghidra extension that turns programs back into object files
Thanks! I've been working on-and-off on this for the past 20 months. It's the third prototype, the first one was a set of Ghidra Jython scripts [0] and the second one was a fork of Ghidra [1].
[0] https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-unlinker-scripts
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Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
I've been working on a specific reverse-engineering technique called _unlinking_ [1] on-and-off for the past 16 months or so. I'm on my third prototype (first a set of Ghidra scripts written in Jython [2], then a fork of Ghidra [3] and now a Ghidra extension [4]) and I've started a blog in order to document it [5], which side-tracked into writing a whole series of articles on reverse-engineering to introduce the topic.
What for, you may ask? Basically I'm trying to decompile a PlayStation 1 video game and I've quickly decided that dealing alone with multiple +500 KiB executables of complete utter spaghetti code wasn't going to work. Instead, I've decided that I'd rather divide-and-conquer the problem, so I've been tooling up to split executables into relocatable object files, in order to decompile those one at a time and _Ship of Theseus_-style my way to success.
Ironically, all of that stuff is so not done that I don't even know what meaningful feedback there could be. My prototypes do work, but only for 32 bit little endian statically-linked MIPS executables. The articles on my blog are draft-quality. As for the decompilation project itself that started all of this, it hasn't seen much progress due to all of those side-quests. The overall topic is so esoteric that so far I've only managed to hear about one group of two persons that tried to do anything remotely similar and one another anecdotal account [6] that this particular skill is very uncommon among reverse engineers.
Personally, I'm starting to think that maybe I could've actually reverse-engineered and decompiled the game in the time I took to get here. I've also tried to engage with Ghidra to upstream the foundations of my modifications in my fork, but after some back-and-forth it became clear that my prototype-grade stuff wasn't industrial-grade and couldn't be merged in its current state, which is why I'm currently reworking the code in my fork as a Ghidra extension.
To those that want to provide feedback after reading all of this: beware, I've had a lot of fun going down that rabbit hole, but this is one hell of a time sink _and_ a particularly tricky mind-bender.
[1] I don't actually _know_ what's the actual name for this technique, given that there are so few resources on it out there. I do know I didn't invent it.
[2] https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-unlinker-scripts
[3] https://github.com/boricj/ghidra/tree/feature/elfrelocateble...
[4] https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-unlinker-extension
[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081#36590078
[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35729232&p=3#35740761
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