Anyway, when my home automation server receives a message that includes "online" then my desk lamp flashes off and on and one of the Echoes announces "someone has logged into the BBS". Sure to bring lots of WAF value lol. Not that there will be many announcements but something I was tinkering with.
That's... a really neat idea. That I'm not sure is remotely _useful_,
but I really like the concept, and it's neat that you made it happen.
So I was playing around and wrote a couple of python scripts. Actually
GPT did and I tweaked until they worked <g>. A login.py and logout.py
that each send a topic to my mqtt server. If you don't know what MQTT
is, climb into that huge rabbit hole of the Internet. Basically it's an extremely lightweight protocol to transmit messages between iot applications. Used for automation in a lot of industries. Was originally created at the tail end of the '90s by a couple of folks from IBM.
Always felt like it could be used for chat or messaging as well.
Anyway, when my home automation server receives a message that includes "online" then my desk lamp flashes off and on and one of the Echoes announces "someone has logged into the BBS". Sure to bring lots of WAF value lol. Not that there will be many announcements but something I was tinkering with.
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