Subj : More Stupid Home Automation Ideas To : Captain Obvious From : niter3 Date : Tue Dec 19 2023 04:53 am CO> So I was playing around and wrote a couple of python scripts. Actually CO> GPT did and I tweaked until they worked . A login.py and logout.py CO> that each send a topic to my mqtt server. If you don't know what MQTT CO> is, climb into that huge rabbit hole of the Internet. Basically it's an CO> extremely lightweight protocol to transmit messages between iot CO> applications. Used for automation in a lot of industries. Was originally CO> created at the tail end of the '90s by a couple of folks from IBM. CO> Always felt like it could be used for chat or messaging as well. CO> CO> Anyway, when my home automation server receives a message that includes CO> "online" then my desk lamp flashes off and on and one of the Echoes CO> announces "someone has logged into the BBS". Sure to bring lots of WAF CO> value lol. Not that there will be many announcements but something I was CO> tinkering with. I've done thing simliar using audio files when people login over Chromecast devices. .... Condense soup, not books! --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64) * Origin: Clutch BBS * telnet://clutchbbs.com (21:1/199) .