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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
zigbee2mqtt
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A Custom Zigbee Doorbell
Have you considered Zigbee2mqtt[0]? You'd be running an extra program, but the docs are really good, it's pretty lightweight, and MQTT is incredibly easy to talk to from python or basically anything else.
[0] - https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/
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Thoughts, learnings and regrets after three years on Home Assistant
For Zigbee, I can recommend using the Zigbee2MQTT (https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/) integration instead of HomeAssistant's built-in ZHA system. It might be a bit more complex to set up, but it's very powerful and works fantastically. (User "simon42" on YouTube has some good videos about the topic, but they're in German.)
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Bad business broke the smart home
This is definitely better than many of the alternatives but still not perfect. With Zigbee etc you end up locked into one or more of the ecosystems, not to mention some manufacturers implementing it in a way that has weird quirks (see [1]). With esphome you have a limited choice of devices (would love to see more), but you also usually end up locked into keeping a 2.4GHz WPA2 AP for your devices (and you miss out on mesh, but also the problems when it doesn't work...)
1: https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt/issues/16717
- The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity
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Philips Hue will soon force users to create an account
I can recommend this: https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/
You can keep your Hue bulbs and devices but threw away the app, hub, and need to work with hue as an institution at all.
I got a $30 USB zigbee stick to replace the hub. works great!
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Any one know how to connect sonoff s31 to a mqtt server on 8883 (tls)
It looks like it uses zigbee? If you have a server you could run zigbee2mqtt. You'd also need a zigbee dongle / adapter.
- How I wrote my own Smart Home software
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Troubleshooting a troublesome trinket that's terribly torpid!
\also posted on the z2m* github device discussion board
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Raspberry pi & a Sonoff USB dongle
If you want to use HA on your phone, you would need to install it on the pi, along with either ZHA or Zigbee2MQTT for the Zigbee network interface. Debian alone won't be able to interface with most of your smart devices.
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New installation: setup everything in the lab or after the installation?
I still haven't understood if the devices will change the path using the better route or not (since I've just tested a bTicino switch K4003C and it keeps using the worst path with 1 or 0 signal quality over a near Ikea repeater with a signal quality of 50).
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