Compatability with Home Assistant?

[skynet01]

Would love to dive into this project but wanted to check to see if it's possible to make it compatible with Home Assistant? Maybe Split-Flap can receive messages on MQTT protocol? Or have a version of this firmware running on ESPHome?

The use case is that with Home Assistant it makes it REALLY easy to automate this for messages, notifications, sensor information etc.

[skynet01]

Found an mqtt version here: https://github.com/nctiggy/split-flap-mqtt maybe they can be merged?

[JonnyBooker]

@skynet01 - Hello! You beat me to sending that link!

It is something I've considered doing but personally didn't have much use for myself as I don't run a HomeAssistant instance at home so left the idea on the backburner in favour of other projects.

It is something I can potentially look into if I manage to get some time in future, from what I've seen the implementation doesn't look too bad, and happy to post back here if I am making progress on it.

Happy to consider a PR potentially otherwise if capable!

[N1c093]

I'm considering building this display as well. I use Home Assistant as well.

Is there currently no API available to transfer text to the display? Is it only possible through the web interface?

[skynet01]

You would have to use MQTT integration to send messages to the Split Flap

[JonnyBooker]

@N1c093 - There is an "API" of sorts, you can submit a POST body to this webserver endpoint and it will update the display, however it is geared around serving the web interface so the action at the end is to redirect

But @skynet01 is correct, the typical implementation is via MQTT and that is the implementation that is followed here. I haven't got the capacity at the moment to be able to look into it unfortunately at this time, apologies. Not saying never just not at the moment.