svendroid / homegame

Proof of concept for controlling your HomeAssistant Lights from inside a 2D Browser Game.

HomeGame

Proof of concept for controlling your HomeAssistant lights from inside a 2D Browser Game. At the moment lights are toggled when the player reaches a light.

Running it yourself

1. Adjust map to your Light entities

The map is created with a mapeditor called Tiled, which allows to create maps an basis of tilesets.

• Open map.json in Tiled
• Select lights layer
• Select rectangle object over a lamp (S + mouseclick)
• Set name of the objects to entity_id of your lights
• Repeat for all lights
• Save

2. Authenticate with HomeAssistant REST API

• Configure CORS for localhost (or the host your running this on)

  // inside configuration.yaml
  
  api:
  
  http:
    cors_allowed_origins: 
      - http://localhost:8000
  

• Authentication

  • Generate AuthenticationToken for the REST API (see https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/api/rest/) and insert it into config.js

3. Run local server

• Run server: python -m SimpleHTTPServer
• open http://localhost:8000

Whats next?

For the moment I just wanted to check out how to create a really basic game on basis of a Tiled Map and connect it with HomeAssistant. Ideas for the future:

• Poltergeist - Create a map of a real location and let the user play a ghost which lets flicker lights. I think it could be fun demo for a Meetup or other event at our office.
• Addon creation - Wrap it inside an Addon and make configuration easier, so that everyone just can create a custom map and only needs to upload it and is ready to go.
• Do you have an idea I could do with it? Let me know ... :)