Open Source Automation

Here is the first beta version of the Nest plugin. After installing the plugin you will need to go to https://home.nest.com/login/oauth2?client_id=ff5f73fb-2fd9-472f-ba3d-73cb236a1808&state=STATE. You will log in to your nest account and give access to the OSA client. You will then be given a pin co...

The Nest thermostat does have a USB port which allows some hacking. Nest sounds like they are going to leave this open for developers to use as they see fit. My hope is that someone develops some software to run on the thermostat and opens up some kind of web service API so that other automation ca...

Automate I got a bit of free time and played around with making a plugin. Got alot of it working and it does stream the changes without having to poll. But unfortunately the connection closes sometimes and then the updates no longer come. The author of the C# firebase client has that listed as an is...

I also just found this:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/818 ... st-API-fro

Nope. I played around with the firebase client for android and had it communicating with the dev environment Nest. Thought about making a tasker plugin. But I never bought a Nest so I didn't pursue it. The big downside to creating an OSA plugin is that there isn't an official .net client for firebas...

I've had it working. But did notice that some google search updates would break it from time to time. Usually a new version of the search api would be released to fix it. This seems to be the latest updated apk -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56664798&postcount=394 Unfortunately I ...

Like Automate said. Verify that your REST plugin is working since it uses REST to communicate with the server. Also make sure you are on your local network or that you have port 8732 forwarded to outside your network. Here is a link to the wiki for some documentation. http://www.opensourceautomation...

Thanks for the heads up. I signed up as well. Currently have a couple of arduino's in my setup. Would love exploring other options, especially for free.

It goes through a cloud service.

Seems they use firebase. And currently there isn't a firebase client for c# or VB.net.

You can interact via REST though. I found this c# library https://github.com/ziyasal/FireSharp.