Up until now, I have been writing my own home automation engine from scratch. This has served me, generally well, but, it has issues...
First, lets discuss why I did what I did:
- No cloud. Cloud evil. No. Bad.
- When I wrote gnhast, everything was either perl trash, java trash, or unworkable trash.
- I wanted an event engine based approach, nothing out there did that.
- I wanted a fully distributed system, so I could have pieces on different servers all reporting in.
Gnhast did all of these. Awesome! Well...
- I spent 90% of my time writing and maintaining engine code, and virtually no time actually automating things.
- I never bothered automating silly things like Denon Heos, because it was too much work and I didn't care.
- It was just me, alone, against the great horde of products. If I wanted to buy something new, I had to write a backend.
- The frontend was ok, but I really hate writing frontend code.
The other day, I found Home Assistant.
This doesn't suck. It's about 80% of what I needed:
- No cloud
- Not written like trash, or in a trash language. (I'm lookin at you ruby!)
- It's an event engine
- It supports most of my stuff (but not all!)
- It is NOT distributed
Ok. That last one is a problem. I'm going to have to work through this..
So for now.. I guess I'm closing the chapter on gnhast for a bit. This does what I need, so lets see if I can make it work how I want.
