I was originally planning on creating a roguelike for my fun Christmas project, but I decided to create an app to control the lights in my house instead. Home Automation, it’s the future! 🙂
The app can turn lights on and off, dim to a percentage value, and update UI values in realtime.
If you plan to do something similar, you’ll need a Fibaro Dimmer Module in each light switch, a (local!) server running Node.js, a Z-Wave controller (mine is an Aeotec Z-Stick), the Open Z-Wave library and Socket.IO.
If enough people are interested I’d be happy to write a tutorial, but I think it’s a pretty niche topic – I’d hate to be writing for an audience of one. Let me know what you think in the comments below or hit me up on Twitter.