Symfony Bundle as Controller for MySensors + Vuejs + Websocket

[extrablind]

Hi,

I plan to release an (bugged) alpha version of my own controller (MonitHomeBundle), soon, soon...
I will need some coders to help me with this big challenge.
So this message is to know if people could be interested in testing and contribute to the code; but first to know if you people could be interesting in another controller and specially one builded with php/symfony on top of websockets.
It could also be interesting to know what kind of features you need !

Lets see the presentation below :

Why another controller ?

• No symfony bundle can be found to use with mysensors
• Using php is a challenge for hardware communication (but it works)
• For fun and learn

What is this about ?

• It uses vue.js as front end engine to present datas and graph them.
• It uses dio extension to properly communicate with serial gateway (USB gateway)
• It uses websockets for a realtime communication between vuejs and php
  • As soon as a message (new value from node) is received from gateway (and treated) it is pushed to vue, realtime here (wip : improving response time by optimizing ws network load)
• Tested with Symfony 4.2 and PHP 7.2-7.3
• A pretty good attention is given to GUI (clear and simple)

Prerequisites and limitations

• You MUST install php_dio extension (pecl extension) : this will allow php to access serial port directly and it is the only way to do good job with serial port.
• You need to run daemons in background via cron, nohup or screen (~4% memory on a raspberry pi)
  • One for websockets
  • One for retrieving and treat USB gateway infos
• Currently only works with a serial gateway (connected to USB) or emulated file gateway
• Specific server config (mod proxy for apache)

What it does ?

• Get and display current sensors status
  • Easy set activators
  • Set actuators
    • Supported values : V_BINARY, V_LIGHT_LEVEL,V_TEMP, V_HUM and more to come...
• Log received datas
  • Historical view (see when an actuator has changed status)
  • Full graph with all sensors for a global view (line chart)
  • Simple date range query logs
• Full and very clear gateway debugging by launching daemon in verbose mode (-vvv)
• Trigger several actuators at a time (actions)
• Build scenario based on conditions on value of one or several sensors and trigger action accordingly
• Schedule actions (using rrule RFC both side) to be executed periodically
• Graph your network topology
• File emulator gateway for local testing purpose (no fully running gateway needed to contribute)
• Dispatchs events on new messages received from gateway
• Minimalistic REST API (that need more attention)
• Software definition of logging : log periodically sensors (drop unwanted values)

The work to come...

• Allow creation and modification of nodes via gui, in fact, only yaml definition is supported for the moment
  • Create new nodes and sensors on gateway's presentation message reception (auto mode not implemented)
• Test new message type (and sensors), new value, new unit and debug...
• Improve graphs datas (redondant big queries and not optimized formatting)
• Improve data socket network usage (be light)
• Unit/functionnal testing
• Support more gateway protocols (MQTT)
• Support exotic sensors
• Refactor and cleanup
• [...]

So tell me...

[extrablind]

Here is the repo https://github.com/extrablind/monithomebundle