Hello,
I have had a need for monitoring and integrating CNC on gSender into our office HomeAssistant. With a big help from Claude (guess where my Fable trial went…) I did HACS integration.
It is for monitoring only so I can basically know when to turn off whole CNC since we use it only occasionally and turning off the whole setup is not our greatest strength.
How does this differe from gsender2mqtt?
I have gsender2mqtt running, but I’m unsure if it is because I’m on wireless and it’s sending too much traffic or just what, but when I do try to use it, gsender keeps getting halted. I’ve not gotten around to it yet, but I figured I’d run a network cable out to my table and plug in to see if that stops it from happening.
The underlying principle how it connects to the gSender is the same. I do not have gsender2mqtt installed so I can’t test if running mqtt and integration will interfere. In theory they should not. It is like opening the remote control on multiple devices…
Main difference is that you do not have to hassle with docker and setting up MQTT. And the setup is completely done on HA host machine. (which can be done with the mqtt too but not in case you have HA OS). And since it is “HA native” it should be a bit simpler to create HA automations around it.