God damn, telling me to go to YouTube to figure out what it can do, where the video is some desktop screen; and audio (and minutes of my time) is needed to hear what they're saying. So user unfriendly, mobile users in particular.
this is a tiny script/hack that someone did 2 years ago and was kind enough to open-source. That person probably did not post the link to HN. So, what do you expect?
They appear to have some hand-wired device for controlling the mains. If you don't want to wire that yourself, consider something like this: https://www.adafruit.com/product/2935
The title is a bit of a stretch...My office does payroll, sales, purchasing, IT support, does this help with any of that?
Is this in fact 'building automation' or a 'slack switch'
'Fan on', anyone who thinks that the hard part of maintaining office temperature is switching has never worked in a real office. Get me a slack bot that can successfully negotiate what the temperature should be and then I will be interested.
This is a guide for all the trivial parts of "automating your office" like receiving signals from user over the internet and turning them to electrical signals (rpi and slack make it trivial).
The non-trivial parts are left to the user, like hooking up your "office" to these electrical signals.
Edit: also this was just a school project [0] and not an actual real life use example.
Yes, there are people out there using slack as the alternatives aren't that better. To use Microsoft teams the entire company needs to be on office365 and teams isn't that integrated with every service yet. Google chat is supposed to be cool but it has the same issue.
Most of my clients use slack in their companies with teams from 20-25 to around 600.
I made this code 2 years ago for a class named "Introduction to electronics" so I was learning python and circuits at the time. And yes, the title and proposal are quite overrated. Surprisely we used a variation of this script to automate a lab in my university. When I pushed this to Github it was just for my colleagues. I'm having fun, I don't know why this came up after al these years.
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Less likely to electrocute you.
Is this in fact 'building automation' or a 'slack switch'
'Fan on', anyone who thinks that the hard part of maintaining office temperature is switching has never worked in a real office. Get me a slack bot that can successfully negotiate what the temperature should be and then I will be interested.
The non-trivial parts are left to the user, like hooking up your "office" to these electrical signals.
Edit: also this was just a school project [0] and not an actual real life use example.
[0] (https://github.com/vitorverasm/slackbot-iot/commit)/98024bd6...
Most of my clients use slack in their companies with teams from 20-25 to around 600.
It's probably because of how much nicer slack is to use.