An iroh powered smart fan

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Alien1Being•16 minutes ago

I use a inexpensive 36 AUD Tapo infrared hub to control my fan reliably.

It links to my Google Home installation and responds to voice commands.

https://us.store.tapo.com/products/tapo-h110-smart-ir-iot-hu...

Someone with too much time on their hands might benefit from the iroh solution....

shermantanktop•about 4 hours ago

This is interesting as an example of just how complicated and elaborate a toolchain you can use to build something dead simple.

There’s a lot that comes for free by adding all these libraries and crates and steps. But from what I can tell it comes down to:

let _ = if fan_on { fan.set_high() } else { fan.set_low() };

klooj•about 3 hours ago

iroh is a peer to peer networking technology so the project example of controlling a fan isn't so much about the fan but rather that it's controllable from anywhere through an esp32 microcontroller that can maintain a resilient connection endpoint even through power cycles and so on. I think iroh was posted about on HN a few weeks ago and I had a similar reaction of like...what in the world is this blog post even saying haha. But I found their docs page and found it pretty fascinating learning! https://docs.iroh.computer/what-is-iroh

rwmj•24 minutes ago

I use a fan with an on/off button.

skybrian•about 4 hours ago

It's unclear to me why they needed to compile Rust to WebAssembly to write a website. It looks like iroh has a JavaScript API:

https://docs.iroh.computer/languages/javascript

Edit: actually, that's a Node.js-specific API. For browsers, it seems like they should have a platform-independent JavaScript/TypeScript API that includes a WebAssembly file (if needed) instead of expecting you to compile WebAssembly yourself.

nine_k•about 4 hours ago

Not touching JavaScript might be a reason enough. (Though I bet it has a Typescript API, and Typescript is great.)

croes•40 minutes ago

Typescript is nothing without JavaScript

Teknomadix•39 minutes ago

Why.

Frenchgeek•27 minutes ago

Because Uncle Iroh needs more fans maybe? (should have been a tea kettle)

An iroh powered smart fan

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