HOME ASSISTANT
Credit: www.home-assistant.io
OUR EXPERT
Matt Holder has worked in IT support for over a decade, and always tries to utilise Linux alongside the other installed systems.
Over the past decade or so, the computing world has changed immensely and we’re going to capitalise on one particular area to grab data from a source and display it on the screen in a fancy Dan interface. It’s a useful ability to have because you can quickly prototype displaying important information from a range of sources when needed.
We’re going to work on an application that pulls data from the Home Assistant API and displays it in a GUI. This GUI enables the entities that are shown to be selected by the user and displayed in a table, and the values to be updated at regular intervals. As an added bonus feature, we are implementing a way to display whether the value has stayed the same, increased or decreased since the last reading.
is an amazing project and provides the glue that allows many different home automation tools to be used together. For example, data from a Nest thermostat could be used to switch on and off smart plugs, rather than just your boiler. This is a tiny example of what can do. It consists of
