limpid sparrow
I was dissatisfied with the flakiness of some of my automations around my 3D printer yesterday afternoon, so I sat down and rewrote them using a neat little Finite State Machine system
I wrote up a (far too long) blogpost about it here: https://pdx.su/blog/2025-06-15-improving-my-homeassistant-automations-with-state-machines/
tl;dr: Xstate and DigitalAlchemy let you do some pretty cool things, with flowcharts!
bright ridge
that looks great!
making mental note for my overly complicated weather-and-calendar-and-alerts-and-time-of-day lighting scheme
limpid sparrow
It took a little bit of time to get the hang of xState, mostly because I was trying to make it do what I'd do with an elixir gen_statem, but once i stopped trying to do that and did things the way xState wanted me to, it was shocking how fast it was to iterate and get something working.
And no matter how many times I tried to break it (in a fake env) i couldn't get it to lock itself into a corner
bright ridge
oh excellent
limpid sparrow
There were a few things that were sparsely documented, but obvious once you understand how it all works. The one that gave me the biggest pause was the "global" powerOff transition. Eventually I realized that the top level state machine is just that, a state machine, and accepts on just like the child states would
bright ridge
furious scribblings
limpid sparrow
If you do get it set up, i'd love to see what you come up with, or help rubber-duck the tricky parts haha
I'm trying to think about how to fix my roof trim sports lights feature; wanted it to go to team color when my team wins and off when they lose, but never got it working how i wanted and gave up.
kind of in the "everything is a nail" phase haha