I've found these kinds of clients useful because I can remotely wake-up or sleep computers, track how long they are turned on for, and automatically pause my lights and music when my webcam turns on.
Ooooh! Finally. I have needed something like this to control the volume on my media PC.
I used to have an automation that detects when my HVAC turns on, and it bumps the volume of whatever I’m playing up a few clicks. Then turns it back down when the HVAC cycle finishes. Super handy due to the crazy loud HVAC in my house.
Been using this for several months now and it's been great. I even set up scripts to set my next boot to be Windows when I know I'll be gaming with friends using a game on GamePass so it'll be booted and ready when game night is about to start.
Yeah the nodered flow on the target device is for handling shutdown(sleep) and status reporting back to HomeAssistant, so in HA the computer is a simple switch with on/off states
Can somebody shed some light on why this doesn't create a systemd entry? It works when I manually run it specifying the config.yaml file but there are no systemd entries. I'm on Ubuntu desktop.
This is so cool, first MQTT-based sensor I've set up. Already had a broker set up with HA, but how can HA automatically discover which topic to listen to, know the vendor name and how to interpret all the data?
There's a set of special topics under homeassistant/ that devices also publish to that describe what each topic does and how HA should present it. HA will subscribe to everything under that root topic to discover all your MQTT devices.