Hello HASS community, after attending the conference I thought I’d dive a bit into the dev side.
I have two space heaters from different brands, and have them connected to my hass setup through two IR hubs: 1x Broadlink IR, 1x Logitech Harmony. I can control this through automations and general service calls.
The problem is that the space heaters I have are stateful: remotes only have a power toggle button, and temperature up+down, I can’t send IR commands requesting a particular temperature or power state.
My intention is to model some form of device in home assistant that persists the state of the machine, so I can only control it through hass but more easily write automations/scripts that setup particular states (i.e turn off at night, but only if heater was already on).
I’ve come to think of three possible options:
- good-old fashioned integration, spin up python and doing it the traditional way. I am confident this will work properly but seems like a big investment.
- hack something together using Node RED. It seems that there’s a persistence module I could use, and with that I feel confident I can make the rest work using a Node Red “Sensor”
- Use some form of “dummy” hass sensor and use simple API calls to persist state (in home assistant), possibly from Node RED? Dummy sensor
Any help or suggestions are appreciated. I worry about choosing an architecture that will make things too complicated/hard to evolve, while also fearing overkill. Am I getting something wrong here?
I am comfortable in Linux environments and with dynamic languages.