automate

Nothing special to see here. It's a small effortless (yet?) Lua script handler to trigger automations based on incoming MQTT events.

Install (Ubuntu 20.04)

Install dependencies and build required lua modules:

apt install git libmosquitto-dev mosquitto-clients \
  lua5.3 lua-filesystem luarocks liblua5.3-dev

luarocks install lua-mosquitto
luarocks install dkjson

Clone the repo into your $HOMEDIR so the systemd service can pull it:

su -l ubuntu
git clone git://<your-git-repository>/automate
exit

Install and enable systemd service:

cat > /etc/systemd/system/automate.service << "EOF"
[Unit]
Description=Lua Home Automation

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/home/ubuntu/automate
ExecStartPre=git pull
ExecStart=lua automate.lua
Restart=always
User=ubuntu
Group=ubuntu

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

systemctl enable automate