Hello out there.
Once upon a time in a land far, far away, I was a LabVIEW Partner (don't think it was Partner in those days, but that's what it's called now).
As my professional activities drifted in a different direction, I've not done any LabVIEW in a while, but it's aways been near and dear to my heart.
Life brought retirement about 2 1/2 years ago, and I've been dabbling with a number of things in my "spare" time.
One of which is Home Assistant. Somehow, somewhy, HA has exploded as the thing in home automation.
It's support of devices is amazing. There are some 10,000 "integrations" available and more being developed every day.
The downside is the "programming" as they call it.
Oi.
I'm not a programmer, and don't play one on TV, but I'm conversant in a plethora of programming tools, including LabVIEW.
HA purports to be able to do everything via it's UI, but the ugly truth is, the really useful screen elements (they call them cards) don't have UI connections. It's all YAML. (Yet Another Markdown Language)
OMG. This stuff hurts my head in a spectacularly large and significant way.
There are two "segments" to HA, Dashboards and Automations. Automations I can "kinda" do, but Dashboards are a nine line cluster.
It took me over a week to build a simple UI with 5 screen elements to control the volume on three audio devices in my house. And that was with the help of some kind soul on the forum that took pity on me. Without his help, it simply wouldn't have happened. I could have crafted this in 20 minutes with LabVIEW, or python.
So, what I have been doing is some automation stuff for the house. Due to my lack of knowledge of the ins and outs of automations, and the documentation is 12-24 months behind schedule at any point, I've had to break up what is effectively a state machine into about 10 discrete automations. And as you would expect, I'm running into issues with them interacting with each other.
So, I've put together a textual descriptive of what I want to do and have been investigating the best way to do this in HA. What virtually everyone uses for these types of "flows" as they call them is NODE-Red. There is much to like about NODE-Red, but the first thing it reminded me of was LabVIEW. So, for laughs, this morning I went looking, and lo and behold found the Community Edition, and a version to run on Linux as a cherry on top. I'm migrating all my activities that I can away from Windows, as none of the computers in my house will run Windows 11.
So, while I wait for NI to figure out why my e-mail is not verified, I have to ask:
Has anyone had any interaction with HA? Any thoughts about interaction between LV and HA?
Take care
