Migrate to new DigitalStrom API

[albertomontesg]

There are any plans to migrate to the new DigitalStrom API: https://developer.digitalstrom.org/api ?

[gaetancollaud]

Holy moly, finally something new! I was waiting for it for a long time. I need to spend some time investigating but yeah for sure! I don't have time to go through it right now but I will for sure do it as soon as I have time.

Did you receive a notification or something? If yes, on which channel? Because I didn't get anything.

[albertomontesg]

Actually I encountered this surfing the web and making some searches at Google.

[gaetancollaud]

I just give it a try and it looks really really promising !
You can ask for the status of all the devices of the appartements and it returns it in ~50ms !

Documentation about auth is still really bad... Did get the bearer token to work

Websocket also works (for notifications) but seems tricky and not documented.

Note for my futur self:

ws://dss.local:8090/api/v1/apartment/notifications

{"protocol":"json","version":"1"}

[gaetancollaud]

I had a second look at this new API and it looks very promising. It's a big more complicated to do some actions, but it's crazy fast compare to the previous one. The Websocket also bring new possibilities compare to the previous event endpoint.

I don't think I will have time to work on this in the next few months, but I will fore sure implement it eventually. I will rebase my work on the PR #35 because it has some good benefits I think.

[gaetancollaud]

I took some time to investigate the new API. I ended up almost reimplementing everything. I based my work on #35 to have a proper architecture.

Good news:

• it works good for devices
• it's fast (compare to previous implementation)
• implementation is way simplier, no more shady work around
• I fixed some home asisstant issues like [HomeAssistant] Warning: Discovered MQTT entities with a name that is equal to the device name #40
• Metering for the whole "apartment" (summary of the whole consumption)

Downside:

• Stuff has been shuffled arround (for instance circtuits are now controllers, and actually they now use "meterings" for power sensors), this will be reflected in the mqtt topics
• no more scene event (no api provided)
• no more button event (was a workaround anyway)

I will polish it and make a new release soon, but it will be a version 2.0 and will have some breaking changes unfortunattely 😫