The home assistant integration does it for me.

Do you want your living room lights to turn red when the swarm grows? Of course you do.

I eagerly waiting every month for it.

Same here, I already know it’s coming every friday afternoon, but I’m still happy when it pops up in my RSS reader. That’s how I know the work day is over.

Oh and it’s weekly btw :)

Good blog post, thanks for sharing.

I fully agree with your points about real openness, I think this “file over app philosophy” is the way to go for every self hosted app – make it possible get the data out of there.

What I did not quite understand is why using XML is slower? Why is that – are parsers just slower in general? I do not have a lot of experience with XML, but I always thought it pretty much doesn’t matter whether you send your data via JSON or XML. And how does your JSON structure solve the problem of “content heavyness”?