ExternalController

A service that controlls devices in relation to each other. Used to trigger device's actions based on other device's data.

When to use an instance of the external controller?

You would setup an instance of the external controller when you have a select amount of devices that have direct relationship in action execution. The external controller is a implemenetation of the concept ChainControlling.

A good usage for the external controller would be a smart irrigation system or basically when one device needs to trigger an action of another device based on its own data.

Example

Suppose you had a soil moisture/humidity smart device that would trigger a water valve smart device. You would use the external controller to set up this relationship.

But how?

the external controller would monitor the soil moisture/humidity's passive data and determine if it should trigger the device.

Conditions

The way that the external controller knows when a action should be triggered is through "conditions" aka "relations".

Take a look at this document to get more information on the technical aspect of how conditions are setup.

How do you setup this service and its relational actions?

1. Clone the repository
2. Run python3 config.py which is for server connectivity since the external monitor is just a "non-bot" client.
3. Run python3 relational_config.py which is for setting up action relations. It will prompt you for information on your relations.
4. Run python3 main.py