I'm curious about other people's experiences with this stuff, especially if you're someone who likes simple scripting and found Home Assistant to be too clunky.

Basically, I've bought a lot of these little devices, and am much more interested in doing this in a more "Unix Way" way; give me text streams/web APIs and let me figure it out. I think there are things like Huginn and there's a like a Perl one or something?

Frankly, I'd really like to do it in Bash or similar? Anyone gone their own way like this?

(I end up not getting far because the use cases aren't compelling enough for me to put the time in? I don't know.)