Karl Q. kquinsland

This is a quick and dirty cut/paste from an old ESPHome project that I never got around to writing up. It monitored several sensors and controlled a hydroponics system.

The specific snip above creates a text string that is published back to Home Assistant.

Hopefully it should be pretty easy to figure out what's going on.

The time remaining depended on several factors and could change arbitrarily. For this reason, I found it much simpler to update the time remaining sensor from other entities/components which is why the update_inteerval is never.

	import re
	import json

	import http.client


	def fetch_js_file():
	# Pulled directly from chrome.
	# Failure to mimic a browser may result in a 403 Forbidden response
	conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("opensauce.com")

	"""
	This is a simple script to communicate with a "generic" ph / ORP controller as seen on Ali Express
	The listings for these devices will usually have a title like:

	PH Controller pH-1800 Industrial On-line Ph Meter Electrode pH Tester Transmitter

	E.G.: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32993041598.html

	The only documentation that I could get from the seller is a microsoft word file and a microsoft windows program that appears to
	need an older copy of 32 bit windows. I was not able to get the program to run in a VM to sniff the modbus traffic and a quick look

	# Creates a "dummy" network interface
	# we'll configure this interface with a link-local address
	# See: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.netdev.html
	##

	[NetDev]
	Name=dummy0
	Kind=dummy

	# There are many ways to parse HTML w/ python... and this one is the least unpleasant
	import bs4


	# for pretty JSON
	import simplejson as simplejson


	def _parse_event(element):

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