Homie SDK

Description

SDK for managing devices and their states, it is based on extended protocol homieiot.

Extension of the protocol

1. The device has a group of attributes $options, which in format repeats the $properties from the node. Used to store device settings, both editable and not. Example: sweet-home/device/$options/some-option.

2. The device has a group of attributes $telemetry, which in format repeats the $properties from the node. Used to store various telemetry and statistics. $stats is not used. Example: sweet-home/device/$telemetry/some-telemetry.

3. A node has a $state attribute, similar to a device. Example: sweet-home/device/node/$state.

4. The node has a group of attributes $options, similar to the device. Example: sweet-home/device/node/$options/some-option.

5. The node has a group of attributes $telemetry, similar to the device. Example: sweet-home/device/node/$telemetry/some-telemetry.

6. A mechanism for validating the set values has been added to the application:

   • On the received message, in case of incorrect values, the error body should be sent to a topic like errors/sweet-home/device/node... The error body should be in the JSON format of the string "{" code ": 'error_code'," message ": 'error message'}". (For example, if an incorrect value has come to the topic sweet-home/device/node/sensor/set, then the error should be sent to the topic errors/sweet-home/device/node/sensor)
   • Valid for any editable values ($properties,$options, $telemetry).

7. Device and node indicators are taken from the following attributes:

   • Status (state) - $state.
   • Signal strength - $telemetry/signal.
   • Battery charge level - $telemetry/battery.

Device attribute $stats from the original protocol is not supported.

Required state for creating an entity in an application

• For device: $homie, $name, $localip, $mac, $fw/name, $fw/version, $implementation, $state.
• For node: $name, $state plus at least one property.
• For properties: ($properties, $options, $telemetry): $name.

Structure

1. Broker - supported transport protocols.
2. Device - tool for device creation/control.
3. Node - tool for node creation/control.
4. Property - tool for property creation/control.
5. Sensor - tool for sensor creation/control.
6. ETL - set of rules for the data transformation.
7. Homie - toolkit for managing devices and their states.
8. Bridge - toolkit for bridge developers.
9. Utils - set of utilities.