Lan api?

[tjdetwiler]

I just got my tidbyt today and have been brainstorming how to use it. I’d like to hook this up to home assistant, but ideally I’d like to avoid relying on the internet or any remote services.

Is there been any consideration of an mdns/LAN API that can work without API keys or other configuration? It would be really cool if something like home assistant could just discover all the tidbyts on my LAN without any configuration.

[drudge]

See this response:

Self-hosted tidbyt server

to what @Tavis_Gustafson said. Totally The hardware is fully unlocked and you can run whatever you want on it. All you really need is to define the LED matrix pinout correctly and the hardware is yours. So to summarize, currently if you want to do things fully over LAN, you would need to reflash with your own ESP32 firmware. In the future, the built-in firmware might also have some ability to receive data over the local network, but we’re not working on that as a feature c…

[tjdetwiler]

I wonder if esphome would be a viable option here.

[johntdyer]

Really hope this gets picked up at some point…