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mKeRix / room-assistant

Presence tracking and more for automation on the room-level
https://www.room-assistant.io
MIT License
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Replace cluster implementation with standardized protocol #780

Open mKeRix opened 3 years ago

mKeRix commented 3 years ago

While the current cluster implementation works, it's not without its issues and isn't well maintained. Instead, it might make sense to switch to a more standardized protocol for communication between the instances, like zyre (based on ZeroMQ). This would also allow other people to write software that integrated with room-assistant natively, e.g. an ESPHome integration that could feed Bluetooth data to a room-assistant cluster.

zyre.js is a NodeJS implementation of that protocol - it's missing the leader election APIs, but that could be added via a PR.

jippi commented 2 years ago

I would be amazingly happy if it used Consul for cluster and state management - its quite light-weight ,resilient and easy to work with - and incredible well tested/implemented. It's a fairly light-weight daemon too for small clusters :)