I would like to share a project I’m currently working on with the objective of simplifying the creation of automations. It’s called Whenite! (can be accessed here: http://whenite-aulas.ws.atnog.av.it.pt/ )
We all know that deal with yaml files to create automations isn’t so easy how it looks, so Whenite solve that problem.
Would like that you try it and give me feedback what you think about Whenite.
If you connect many triggers to a condition node, automatically is converted to multiple triggers with an AND logic. in the same way, if u put many nodes sequentially, they represent multiple conditions with the AND logic.
Only the node that has no outputs is considered a action (you can have multiple actions too)
All the platform run locally, only on client side. i only use the APIs to get the devices.
The authentication is provided by HA. The only communication to the internet is to send console bugs.
The idea is an open-source project so the code will be provided on Github to allow you to use it on your local network!
It’s in a test phase right now.
This is part of @carlosmlsoares Master thesis at the University of Aveiro, where I’m his supervisor.
As Carlos mentions there is nothing running at the server, you can actually turn off your internet connection after loading the site (this was a project requirement). Soon Carlos will make the source available so you can audit what it does.
Meanwhile he could use your help testing and validating his concept.
This project really looks promising! Best of both worlds, node-red and yaml. Perfect for onboarding and beyond. And people can ultimately learn yaml from it and move to it when they want to go further then the scope of this editor. Perfect!