Can this be used as a relay? about mi-home HOT 8 CLOSED

hi @beniffland,

This library is helpful if you want to do custom actions triggered by xiaomi devices.
It has not been designed as a relay for events.
Theoretically it is possible to do it, but there is no such code yet.

If you want to relay events from your devices, in my point of view the easiest way would be to use xiaomi gateway that emits stream of events that you can listen from your code and forward to wherever you want.

Thanks,
Sergey

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Thanks Sergey. When you say "use xiaomi gateway that emits stream of events that you can listen from your code", how would you listen for the events? Is that something that you can do in c#?

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Yes, it is possible to do form the c# code, take a look at https://github.com/sergey-brutsky/mi-home/blob/master/MiHomeLib/MiHome.cs#L121
Here we are listening for "raw" events, parse them to objects and do useful things.
You can use this technique in your own code by forking the library and writing missing functionality

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Thanks Sergey. I'll take a look. I think I noticed a comment to say that your code didn't work on the latest xiaomi gateway. Is that correct?

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Nope, manufacturer blocked ability to work with gateway programmatically in latest device versions (it doesn't emit any events to LAN). In order to unblock this ability an extra efforts needed, see README. It has no any relation to this library.

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@ifflanb was my answer helpful, do you need other help ?

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HI yes very helpful thanks. I have ordered a version 2 gateway and will try to get it working when that arrives. Might be a while as I ordered from Ali Express :)

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Cool :)

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