Hi everyone,
I am a brand new Homey user and developer. I’ve developed a new app called Bridgekeeper and I’m looking for testers.
I wrote Bridgekeeper to address the need for manually overriding automation. It supports a Shield device driver that can shield a peer device from cooperating animation. For example, lighting automation that turns off the light when I don’t want it to can be manually overridden by physical interaction with the light switch to turn it back on. The light remains shielded from automation until the light switch is turned off.
Along the way it was simple enough to add a Clone device driver that creates a virtual clone of a peer and a Link device driver that can be used to make a device (virtually) appear to be in multiple zones.
Thanks for your support!
Bridgekeeper provides Clone, Link and Shield virtual device drivers.
Each such virtual device
- Is paired with a user-selected peer device.
- Assumes the class and system capabilities of its peer.
- Remembers its peer to bridge the flow of capability values.
- Copies the values from its peer when first added.
Clone
- Behaves as a virtual device just like its peer but detached from it.
Link
- Allows capability values to flow freely to and from its peer.
- May appear in a different zone than its peer.
- Allows a door sensor between two zones to trigger activity in each.
Shield
- Shields its peer from cooperating automation.
- Allows values to flow to its peer only when the shield is off.
- Copies values from its peer when the shield is toggled.
- Provides shielding mechanism but not shielding policy.
Shielding policy is supported by
- Listening for peer value changes.
- Publishing capabilities that have drifted.
- Triggering policy flows on capability drift.
Shield example
Manually override Light automation by physical interaction with its onoff switch.
Rewrite automation such as this
- When Light’s zone is active/inactive, Then turn on/off Light
as
- When Light’s zone is active/inactive, Then turn on/off Light Shield
- When Light Shield onoff drift is detected, Then toggle shield on or off.
where Light is Light Shield’s peer.
