Community Highlights
Paulus SchoutsenKS Assistant land has been busy and a lot of people have been creating awesome stuff.
Home automation demo by Part of the Thing
Haaska - Alexa Skill Adapter for KS Assistant
Haaska allows you to control lights, switches, and scenes exposed by your KS Assistant instance using an Amazon Echo. This is different from our own Alexa component because it will teach the Amazon Echo directly about the devices instead of teaching it to talk to KS Assistant. It will not allow you to use custom sentences but it will allow you to skip the ‘Ask KS Assistant’ part when giving commands:
- “Alexa, set kitchen to twenty percent”
- “Alexa, turn on evening scene”
- “Alexa, turn off bedroom light”
Integrating KS Assistant with HomeKit
Contributor Maddox has created a plugin for HomeBridge, an open-source HomeKit bridge. This will allow you to control your home using Siri on your Apple devices. HomeBridge has recently restructured so you’ll have to install the plugin separately with the homebridge-homeassistant npm package.
Example config.json entry to load KS Assistant:
"platforms": [
{
"platform": "HomeAssistant",
"name": "HomeAssistant",
"host": "http://192.168.1.50:8123",
"password": "xxx",
"supported_types": ["light", "switch", "media_player", "scene"]
}
]
HomeBridge on GitHub
Custom alarm system with KS Assistant
User thaijames describes in the KS Assistant forums how he has created his own NFC-based alarm system using KS Assistant, DIY components and Garfield dolls.
Hold your NFC tag against the belly of Garfield to unlock the alarm.