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Re:Turtles, a Shelly/Zigbee home automation tool in Elixir by Towaway69 on Friday January 05, 2024 @02:56AM (#38876786)
I don't myself but I know that many use Node-RED[0] for home assistant applications. It comes with thousands of plugins, easy to construct web frontends and it's completely open source.

I believe one can also combine it with Home Assistant, I think there are interfaces.

Learning curve is initial exponential (think of visual Unix pipes) but once understood, there are limitless things that you can do with Node-RED. It's basically a visual programming frontend to NodeJS.

[0] https://nodered.org

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Re:Turtles, a Shelly/Zigbee home automation tool in Elixir by ErneX on Friday January 05, 2024 @06:50AM (#38878162)
This is what use for my home automations, including some Shelly 1s. It's pretty neat.
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Re:Turtles, a Shelly/Zigbee home automation tool in Elixir by boringuser2 on Friday January 05, 2024 @09:20AM (#38879317)
That's just some silly scripting GUI, isn't it?

No real reason to write code in blocks when you know how to not do that.

I have an express server that runs my automations using the REST API.

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