Features Roadmap

Feature development list / progress as below.

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Key Feature in development: Google Home Integration

• SYNC (complete)
• QUERY (complete)
• EXEC (WIP)
• DISCONNECT (Not started)

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Release Plan

Release 0.3

• Initial beta test release, no state monitoring

Release 0.4

• [State] Show state in Alexa App
• [User] Show Device Count on My Device page
• [Device Admin] Add total device count
• [User Admin] Add Total User Count
• [User Admin] Add User Device Count
• [Analytics] Re-enable Google Analytics/ Integrate into new APIs, look to cover
  • Page view/ web site visits/ user journey flow
  • Event logging for
    • Command API
    • Discovery API
    • Get State API
  • Total API calls
  • Per-User Total API calls
  • Per-Device API calls

Release 0.5

• [Capability] Add support for Alexa.PercentageController
• [Capability] Break-out state data for colorBrightness and brightness
• [Capability] Add support for Alexa.Speaker
• [PlaybackController] Add support for FastForward, Next, Previous, Rewind, StartOver
• [Capability] Add support for Alexa.TemperatureSensor
• [Device] Create "dummy" state data on device creation, will make usability much easier
• [Alexa Skill] Availability in en-US, en-CA, en-IN, en-AU markets
• [Alexa Skill Marketplace] translations for:
  • Spanish es-ES
  • German de-DE
  • Japanese jp-JP
  • Italian it-IT
• [Lambda] Define function in East US 1 region
• [Lambda] Define function in Asia Pacific Tokyo region
• [API] Addition of API Rate Limiter
  • getstate Web API limiter
  • Lambda RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED event handler
• [Capability] Add support for Alexa.ChannelController
  • Lambda updates
  • Node-RED Contrib updates
  • Web Service updates
• [Branding] Rebrand website to "Node-RED Alexa Smart Home" in-line with node-red-contrib branding
• [Login] Display alert/ banner if account not linked with Amazon Account
• [User "My Account" Page] Create new user page to edit/ update details, change password and delete user account
• [Superuser] Change post-login behaviour to go to management interface, disable My Devices/ My Account
• [Capability]"<Device Name> doesn't support that" feedback now provided on unsupported command/ directive

Release 0.6

• [Web API] Deprecate rotating-file-system logs in favour of Winston logging to console / Docker logs (container-based architecture favours this)
• [Terms of Service] TOS updated/ links configured on login and register pages, modal code added for ease of consumption. Alexa Skill updated in each market with TOS link
• [Privacy Policy] Links configured on login and register pages, modal code added for ease of consumption
• [API] Define throttling on a per-router basis
  • getstate (in-place as of release 0.5)
  • login
  • newuser
  • devices
  • catch-all
• [Web UI] Add tooltips to each capability to help with user selection

Google Home Integration

• [Branding] Website branding changed to Node-RED Smart Home
• [Branding] Logo created, updated across Alexa Skill and Google Home Skill
• [Branding] Change to nr-smarthome.cb-net.co.uk (inc SSL/ NGINX conf etc - leaving existing hostnames for Web API and MQTT in-play)
• [Google Assistant] Enable use of both Alexa and Google Home services - high-level plan:
  • MongoDB Schema Changes:
    • Google Home device data staging (available via /admin/update-schema):
      • Create new "attributes" element (mixed):
        • Create new attributes.colorModel element (string)
        • Create new element attributes.colorTemperatureRange : {temperatureMinK (number), temperatureMaxK (number)}
        • Move existing validRange values for colorTemperature
        • Create new element attributes.temperatureRange : {temperatureMin (number), temperatureMax (number)}
        • Create new element attributes.temperatureScale (string)
        • Create new element attributes.thermostatModes (array of strings)
        • Move existing validRange values for temperature
        • Modify getstate, setstate, device creation to use new elements
        • Create new element attributes.sceneReversible(boolean)
        • Add attribute element "translation" for Google Home and Alexa
      • Create new "room" element (string)
    • Account:
      • Create new "gAccountLinked" (boolean) element
  • API Add new routers for
    • SYNC (working for OnOff, scene, colorsetting, brightness, by design, will extend)
      • Add ReplaceCapability function to translate stored capabilities for Google Home:
        • PowerController >> action.devices.traits.OnOff
        • BrightnessController >> action.devices.traits.Brightness
        • ColorController & ColorTemperatureController >> action.devices.traits.ColorSetting
        • SceneController >> action.devices.traits.Scene
        • ThermostatController >> action.devices.traits.TemperatureSetting
      • Add gHomeReplaceType function to translate stored types for Google Home
        • ACTIVITY_TRIGGER >> action.devices.types.SCENE
        • LIGHT >> action.devices.types.LIGHT
        • SMARTPLUG >> action.devices.types.OUTLET
        • SWITCH >> action.devices.types.SWITCH
        • THERMOSTAT >> action.devices.types.THERMOSTAT
    • EXEC (WIP)
    • QUERY
    • DISCONNECT (disable account/ state updates - use gAccountLinked)
  • API add Google Home Traits
    • Mode
    • FanSpeed
  • UI Changes
    • On device modal add option for Alexa (default) and Google Home
      • Restrict device types / capabilities for Google Home
    • Add Google Home specific option for 'hsv' or 'rgb' colorModel - always set to hsv on device creationm will work with Alexa updates
    • Add checkbox for Scene Reversible - always set to false on device creation

Release 0.7++++

• [Service Management] New Timer for maintenance functions
  • AccessToken cleanup
  • MongoDB Sessions (not needed)
  • MongoDB backup
• [Command API] Consider move of JSON response construction to NodeJS instance as opposed to Lambda
  • Review performance impact
• [Response/ State Node] Review possibility to merge
  • [State] ? move to conf node and offer checkbox/ auto-select if device.state.resportState == true
• [Device Admin] Edit
• [Device Admin] Disable Device
• [Device Admin] Reset Device State Element
• [User Admin] Reset Password
• [User Admin] Disable Account
• [Website] Translations for supported skill languages
• [Node-RED Nodes] Translations for supported skill languages