Supporting Other Systems (Home Assistant) #7
Description
(I wasn't sure of the best way to reach out. I'm sorry if this is the wrong place.)
I love mqtt-scripts. It saves me a lot of trouble. However, there are some systems that don't directly speak MQTT. And, while they can be made to do so, it seems inefficient to copy events and data from one system to MQTT just to act on it, send that data back to MQTT, and then have that information sent back to the originating system.
I've made an attempt at adding direct Home Assistant support to mqtt-scripts (http://github.com/dlashua/hass-scripts/). It works fine, though there's still plenty of work to be done in cleaning up the Node API/syntax of it.
It looks like maybe your Sandbox concept was meant for something like this, but, without documentation and being a fairly poor NodeJS programmer, I can't quite figure out how to use it. What would be the recommended way to implement connectivity to another platform (like Home Assistant, or Philips Hue, etc)?