Re:Home Assistant 2023.11
by contravariant on Thursday November 02, 2023 @07:16AM
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I quite liked node-red for automating things. Though that's mostly because programming in yaml sounded like a red flag when it comes to automation.
Making the UI is more involved but you have a lot of tools to get stuff to talk to each other.
Re:Home Assistant 2023.11
by eternityforest on Thursday November 02, 2023 @08:14AM
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I wasn't a super big fan of Node Red, it gets messy in a hurry with ~30 nodes, and the data flow model isn't the best fit for things that are heavily state driven.
It's pretty nice for what it is, but it isn't quite a HA-alike.
The core workflow is all about having scenes, which have a list of cues, each of which can have IFTT-like rules attached to it, among other things, like sounds and DMX lighting values, live mixing of multiple soundcards, and ESPHome integration.
I'm never quite sure if I should try to move to HASS or some other platform, or keep working on this project a few hours a week.... it's pretty much feature complete, just needing some cleanup to be sustainable and maybe a move to a proper CSS framework, so switching to something else always seems like it's not really worth it.
At the moment HASS seems like the big name in open automation, and I like using the standard big name for everything, but it doesn't seem like the best fit for what I want to do with it.