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		Towaway69 on Jan 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Turtles, a Shelly/Zigbee home automation tool in E... I don't myself but I know that many use Node-RED[0] for home assistant applications. It comes with thousands of plugins, easy to construct web frontends and it's completely open source. I believe one can also combine it with Home Assistant, I think there are interfaces. Learning curve is initial exponential (think of visual Unix pipes) but once understood, there are limitless things that you can do with Node-RED. It's basically a visual programming frontend to NodeJS. [0] https://nodered.org

ErneX on Jan 5, 2024 | [–]

This is what use for my home automations, including some Shelly 1s. It's pretty neat.

boringuser2 on Jan 5, 2024 | [–]

That's just some silly scripting GUI, isn't it?

No real reason to write code in blocks when you know how to not do that.

I have an express server that runs my automations using the REST API.

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