Ever wondered what it takes to build a smart home device from the ground up? At SR BLINDS, we faced a unique challenge: creating a robust, reliable API for our smart blinds that could handle a wide range of integrations—from voice assistants to custom home automation dashboards.
In this deep-dive, I'll walk through our journey and the technical decisions we made:
The Tech Stack: Why we chose a lightweight Python framework for the server and how we manage communication with the devices.
The API Design: Our approach to creating a clean, RESTful API for controlling blinds, handling schedules, and reporting status.
Overcoming Challenges: The surprising hurdles we faced with device-to-cloud communication and how we solved them with a message queue system.
Open Source: A look at our plans to open-source parts of the code to foster community innovation.
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