Automation Engine

A lightweight and flexible framework to automate things with MQTT.

What is Automation Engine?

Automation Engine is a Python framework for building automations using MQTT. The most common use case for this is automating a smart home where devices publish their state to a MQTT broker.

The leading self-hosted solution for this at the time of writing is Home Assistant, which is a great piece of open-source software. However, the automations framework in Home Assistant is quite limited, and you usually have to build multiple flows to achieve a single "automation".

Automation Engine is intended for home automation enthusiasts who prefer writing short snippets of Python, rather than building a large number of GUI "flows". As such, Automation Engine is similar to NodeRED, but uses Python rather than a browser-based editor.

Prometheus Metrics

Prometheus metrics are exposed on port 9832 by default. The port can be configured via the metrics_port config key.

Contributions

This project is released under the MIT Licence. For more information, please see LICENSE.

The CONTRIBUTORS file can be generated by executing CONTRIBUTORS.gen. This generated file contains a list of people who have contributed to Automation Engine.