MyController plugin for Hass.io?

Boggie · September 16, 2019, 6:33am

Is there a MyController plugin for Hass.io? I have been searching a lot, but has not found anything.

I know they solve some of the same problems, but there are differences.

Up until recently I have been running MyController along side “Home assistant” on a hassbian distribution. My gateway are using MQTT, so it was no problem that both systems subscribed to the topics. This meant that I could use the automation from home assistant, and the deeper integration and features like OTA updates from MyController.

Now I have switched from hassbian to full-on HassOS with hass.io plugins, but I miss my MyController

flamingm0e · September 16, 2019, 1:44pm

Can you explain what you used MyController FOR? What did it provide that Home Assistant + Node-Red cannot?

Boggie · September 16, 2019, 3:07pm

Of course, I know it might be a silly question, and I hope there is a way around it

MyController provides a tighter integration with MySensors sensors, and allow things like remote reboot, OTA updating, heartbeat and other behind-the-curtain things I haven’t found a way to do in Home Assistant. Also it supports downsampling of sensor readings so I can keep them forever, including battery level. I know I might be able to do the downsampling bit in influxdb myself, but as everyone else, I like it when others have already done the work for me.

For automation, presentation and other visible things, HA wins hands-down, and if there is an easy way to achieve mycontroller-like support in HA, I would prefer that. The fewer moving parts the better.

Edit: Also, in mycontroller my repeaters shows up, so I can see they are still reporting and alive, but since they do not present any sensors (keeping it simple), I can not find them in HA. This means that I can go to a single screen in MyController and see a red or green dot along each of my sensors and repeaters and know things are good, or that something need a little love (or new batteries).

flamingm0e · September 16, 2019, 4:14pm

Install Portainer add-on, then try to run this:

Boggie · September 16, 2019, 6:52pm

I guess the docker images for MyController are not made for ARM, but at least I know there is a way.

Thank you flamingm0e for the pointer

szurr · February 2, 2020, 7:41pm

Hi any progress on this?

Boggie · February 3, 2020, 5:58am

Nope

At least not from me, but if someone else has better luck I’d also like to hear

szurr · February 3, 2020, 7:51am

Did you test NodeManager?

github.com

mysensors/NodeManager/blob/master/README.md

# MySensors NodeManager [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/mysensors/NodeManager.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/mysensors/NodeManager)

NodeManager is intended to take care on your behalf of all those common tasks that a MySensors node has to accomplish, speeding up the development cycle of your projects. 
Consider it as a sort of frontend for your MySensors projects. When you need to add a sensor (which requires just uncommeting a single line),
NodeManager will take care of importing the required library, presenting the sensor to the gateway/controller, executing periodically the main function of the sensor 
(e.g. measure a temperature, detect a motion, etc.), allowing you to interact with the sensor and even configuring it remotely.

## Features

* Allows managing automatically the complexity behind battery-powered sensors spending most of their time sleeping
* Provides common functionalities to read and report the battery level
* For the most common sensors, provide embedded code so to allow their configuration with a single line
* Manage all the aspects of a sleeping cycle by leveraging smart sleep
* Allow configuring the node and any attached sensors remotely
* Allow waking up a sleeping node remotely at the end of a sleeping cycle
* Allow powering on each connected sensor only while the node is awake to save battery
* Report battery level periodically and automatically or on demand
* Calculate battery level without requiring an additional pin and the resistors
* Report signal level periodically and automatically or on demand
* Allow collecting and averaging multiple samples, tracking the last value and forcing periodic updates for any sensor

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Boggie · February 3, 2020, 8:06am

I think NodeManager solves a different problem, namely programming the nodes themselves.

MyController is a controller for several nodes and usually lives on a (real) server.