Here’s my current R2D2 dashboard for my Sphero unit. I’ve spent a lot of time learning and setting up a custom MQTT integration for him. The two animations in the top left were screen recordings I pulled from the old Star Wars Sphero app and only show when he is on (kinda neat I thought).
I chose MQTT so I could control it both inside and outside HA. I have several automations in HA and some outside using F# and a little program that simulates a translation from him when he makes a chirp or worble. I’ll try to clean that one up because it would be embarrassing to post that in its current state.
Let me know what you guys think or any ideas you might have to improve the dashboard and/or automation ideas!
Hi @fischgeek!
I’m still super impressed with your posts on this forum. I have a Sphero R2D2 myself, and my dream is to program to be a desktop companion that can notify me from Home Assistant.
Your other posts got me started, and right now I have a python script running on my Macbook that allows me to play any droid sound I want from Terminal. I love it already, it’s so much fun to see this little guy just looking around and bleeping every once in a while!
I’m still looking for a way to either migrate all this to my Raspberry Pi, or to somehow allow HA (on the raspberry) to send commands to my Macbook that relays them to the droid. I’ll keep on tinkering and hope to one day come as far as your amazing dashboard that you shared! Keep it up!
