I’ve got a lot of home automation devices in my house, most of them are controllable while I’m on my local (wifi) network. The web interfaces are in various security levels, ranging from no security to password security.

I’m a big fan of the sonos devices, but I’m not a big fan of the Sonos app (mac/windows/android/ios), it just isn’t that good. At least the following points should be fixed before I would consider changing my mind:

1. Android/iOS -> Alarm settings are hidden to far in the application. (two clicks, a long scroll and another click).
2. Slowly startup, they do device discovery even though all my speakers have a semi-static (dhcp reservation) ip.
3. The playbar should rejoin the previous group after watching tv.
4. Memory usage on mac
5. No integration with other systems

I’ve been building node libraries for home automation purposes for a while now, see my repositories. I decided that it was time to try out the strong-type goodness you get when using Typescript.

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