Re: WoT Home Assistant Group Kick-Off

Just a reminder, on today's internal cg call we have an agenda topic on
Home Assistant.  That's in 40 min, 11am eastern.  See you there!

On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 5:45 PM <joshco@gmail.com> wrote:

> WoT Home Assistant Focus Group Kick-Off
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> Hi Folks,
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> It's time to kick off the Home Assistant Focus Group of the WoT Community
> Group.  This is the follow-on to the TPAC breakout on WoT in Home Assistant.
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> We have an agenda item on the next Community Group call on December 4th.
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> Meeting link:
> https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/0b0a4962-9dba-4213-903a-582509710914/20231204T170000/
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> Agenda Link:
> https://github.com/w3c/wot-cg/wiki/Meeting-Agenda#internal-meeting---04-december-2023
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> Our Focus Group has a folder in the WoT CG GitHub repository.
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> https://github.com/w3c/wot-cg/tree/main/FocusGroups/HomeAssistant
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> We also have a discord channel.
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> https://discord.com/channels/1081253871688622181/1155946862864502784
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> Reading the channel discussion shows the evolution of the integration and
> devices described below.
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> I'd like to invite others to share their thoughts on what we should seek
> to accomplish.
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> Please feel free to share the in response to this email, or on the github
> discussions
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> https://github.com/w3c/wot-cg/discussions/97
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> As we move forward, when we have things to discuss, we'll have agenda time
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> WoT Home Assistant Integration
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> Finally, I'd like to share what I've been up to.   With the help of
> Philipp Blum, Luca Barbato, and Ege Korkan, I've created a WoT Home
> Assistant integration (HA) and a 2 sample WoT devices that work with it.
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> Those are listed on the Focus Group Readme:
> https://github.com/w3c/wot-cg/blob/main/FocusGroups/HomeAssistant/Readme.md
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> The Home Assistant integration uses wot-py, and the devices are using
> ArduinoWoT
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> There are also some consumer smart devices that have flashable ESP32
> controllers, which we can flash ArduinoWoT code onto.  An example is Shelly
> Smart Plugs, which we can use to control "regular" devices via automation.
> We can avoid having to DIY the relay/mains voltage aspects, reducing the
> risk of starting fires.
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> Dogfooding
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> *Eating your own dog food* or "*dogfooding*" is the practice of using
> one's own products or services
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food
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> It would be super helpful if others are willing to dogfood this.  If
> people are interested, we can setup a call to do a "live-install" of Home
> Assistant, and or a workshop to walk through your installation as well.
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> What you'll get by installing Home Assistant is that it will automatically
> discover many proprietary devices you may already have in your home.  Home
> Assistant was the first controller that allowed me to reliably control the
> various devices in my home in the same dashboard.
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> Your dogfooding will help the community gain experience from practical
> implementation of WoT in smart home scenarios and help evolve WoT
> implementation libraries identifying and fixing interop issues.
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> Who's in?
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*Josh Co*hen