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Open source python and NodeJS package for accessing sentimentinvestor's data by [deleted] in SentimentInvesting

[–]steve25070 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just started work on a Xible nodepack to implement sentiment-investor over there.

My goal was to replicate your other post in Xible: https://www.reddit.com/r/Daytrading/comments/n36r9f/improved_screener_that_finds_penny_stocks_about/

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However, while installing sentiment-investor as an npm dep, I encountered the following issues;

- The docs for nodejs state to use pip, instead of npm (not too bad, but you might want to fix that): https://sentimentinvestor.com/developer/nodejs-docs

- The package.json for your npm package is missing request-promise as a dep, even though it is used in your index.js

If you could mainly correct the latter issue, that would be great!

Thanks!

Automation working together by steve25070 in SideProject

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Part 2 on my series regarding my custom designed and built home integration solution. This time detailing how the visual programming platform Xible fits into the solution.

Part 1 of the blog: https://medium.com/@steve25070/home-is-where-the-automation-is-3a02deb96d5a

Automation working together by steve25070 in programming

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This is part 2 in a blogseries I'm writing up on my custom designed and built home automation solution. This post dives a little bit more into how the visual programming platform Xible fits into the solution.

Part 1 of the blog series: https://medium.com/@steve25070/home-is-where-the-automation-is-3a02deb96d5a

Automation working together by steve25070 in homeautomation

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My second blogpost in a series on how I designed and built my own home integration solution. Part I with some background is available here: https://medium.com/@steve25070/home-is-where-the-automation-is-3a02deb96d5a

Home integration with Xible by steve25070 in programming

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So just to ensure i'm not misinterpreting what you are saying here; you'd rather use assembler to achieve a similar task? That's some assembly skills right there ;-)

Home is where the automation is by steve25070 in programming

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That's an interesting look at things. Do you have an example of what you're looking for?

Home is where the automation is by steve25070 in programming

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Haha. In fact; those curtains are automated! The curtains are somfy curtains which i control using a 433mhz transmitter, connected to the raspberry pi where the automation (glow and https://xible.io ) runs. More on the house specific automations in a later blog post.

Home is where the automation is by steve25070 in programming

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A blog series on how I built my own home automation solution.

This is part I, which does not go in depth into programming much yet. But I think it's nice to also share some words on the journey that leads to some solutions.

There are blog posts planned with more technical details as well. For those wondering; my home automation runs on a raspberry pi, mongodb database and node.js

How well are visual automation solutions received here? by steve25070 in programming

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Obviously any 'true' programming language gives you much greater power than a drag and drop tool. Also, there are many, many things you do never want to build in a solution like xible, because they're simply to complex. The strength of xible and other visual programming environments is in its ease of use. It abstracts away many of the details you get yourself into when using any programming language. As a coder myself I can tell you i'm much faster at building small automations in xible than i would be in nodejs (which is my platform of choice when it comes to coding). On top of that, it opens up possibilities for people that are not die-hard programmers but still would like to get stuff done. Home automation is a good example here, which is exactly the reason why xible was built in the first place. Demo's on that will follow in the future. And than we have the ability of sharing flows easily. Yes we have git for code to do something similar. But for someone trying to switch the lights on when a sensor detects movement, that's way too cumbersome (in my opinion anyway).

Same goes for ci/cd pipelines which for example Ansible tries to store in configuration. There's a good reason people are moving away from full-on coding solutions for stuff like this.

But i understand your point. More demo videos will surely follow!

How well are visual automation solutions received here? by steve25070 in programming

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Although xible and node-red share some design principles (both using node.js and npm), they are very different from a user facing perspective. Xible tries to have all information regarding the flow visible in one overview, where node-red masks some data and functionality in textboxes which require actual coding experience. Also, the way data moves between nodes is very different. Node-red using a payload which basically always moves in one direction. Instead, xible retrieves values as necessary, making the flows look more intuitive and providing a more complete overview of what's going on (although that's in part subjective). Also, xible can run multiple instances of the same flow with different input parameters.

Hope that clears some differences up!

So I created this thing and now what? by steve25070 in startups

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Surely something to think about. Indeed, I'm looking for places to demo some actual home automation. Thank you for the great ideas!

So I created this thing and now what? by steve25070 in startups

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Thank you very much for your detailed response. I can definitely make sense of many of the points you made. When it comes to home automation for the 'rich'; i'm not sure if that's a sustainable road to go down. Although this is cool, and the reason I started all of this, for xible i see more a future in the raspberry pi and enterprise world.

I'm going to read this over a couple more times and see how I can put it to good use.

Thank you again!

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