Now I’ve got the heatmiser component working with home-assistant, I want to ready a v2 release which will enable it to also work with other devices other than just heatmiser thermostats.

There are two categories of component:

Master – the UH1 device, which is the serial interface from the home-automation system to the thermostats.

Slave – currently just the thermostats, but will also be timing…

Python testing advice

I recently produced a new python module for interacting with heatmiser thermostats using version 3 of their protocol.  I have it setup on github, and have started writing some unit tests to make sure I don’t break it, as it’s now a dependency of the wonderful https://home-assistant.io.

My main concern is that the module currently only works on python3 due to the datatype differences in the…

Python to the rescue for home automation

Those of you who’ve read my most recent ramblings will have come across the work I’ve been doing to try and get my home Control4 automation system connected up with my hot water timing switch.  It’s been nice to hack around with a new language, and also to better understand the low-level bit-level operations that are required to interface with the thermostats and timers.  What hasn’t been nice is…