Announced one year ago was KDE Internet of Things “Kiot” with an emphasis on providing nice integration between the KDE Plasma desktop and Home Assistant for handling open-source home automation. Development on Kiot sadly fell through the cracks for most of the year but development on it recently restarted.
KDE developer David Edmundson shared that Kiot development has recently been restarted thanks to contributions from new developer Odd Østlie. Odd has been working on new features around Bluetooth, audio device handling, battery state handling for different devices, media mplayer / MPRIS connection, and more.
Whoa, okay that is pretty cool.
Super neat, when I had Windows, I had it so that when a Teams call started it set my room lights to a nice ambient, and turned on a ring light, as well as turned on a icon on my dashboard that let me partner know I was in a call in the office.