Announced one year ago was KDE Internet of Things “Kiot” with an emphasis on providing nice integration between the KDE Plasma desktop and Home Assistant for handling open-source home automation. Development on Kiot sadly fell through the cracks for most of the year but development on it recently restarted.

KDE developer David Edmundson shared that Kiot development has recently been restarted thanks to contributions from new developer Odd Østlie. Odd has been working on new features around Bluetooth, audio device handling, battery state handling for different devices, media mplayer / MPRIS connection, and more.

  • Badabinski@kbin.earth
    26·
    19 hours ago

    I was also curious, so I looked it up. This was the motivation for developing kiot:

    I have a script lower my blinds if I turn on the camera during the afternoon as otherwise there’s an annoying glare. My office lights and monitor both have a redder hue at night, but disabling night-mode on my PC automatically disables the main light performing redshift too. I want my screen to turn off not 10 minutes after activity, which is simultaneously both annoyingly too long and too short, but the moment the motion sensor in my room says I’ve left.

    It lets you control various light/sound aspects of your computer via HA. Here’s what it lets you control.

    • Thurstylark@lemmy.todayEnglish
      4·
      13 hours ago

      Yeah, the computer locking thing is what I’m definitely going to enable. I have an automation that automatically dims and brightens lights based on the media playing state on my TV, I’d love to do that with my computer as well.

      This should be super cool, can’t wait

      • ArchEngel@lemmy.ca
        6·
        18 hours ago

        Super neat, when I had Windows, I had it so that when a Teams call started it set my room lights to a nice ambient, and turned on a ring light, as well as turned on a icon on my dashboard that let me partner know I was in a call in the office.