Public Release Announcement!

[cryptk]

I have been working for the past few months on a custom HACS integration for Hayward OmniLogic/Hub/PL pool controllers. If you have one of these, I know what you are thinking, why make another integration? there is already one in core, and another one in HACS... well, this one offers LOCAL API control. This has been a feature that I have seen requested multiple times, and it's finally here! I worked with the creator of the previous (and excellent) integrations, as well as a project manager at Hayward to get this developed.

Before we get too far, lets cover a few things that you should know up front before using it:

• This is still a pretty early release, a few testers and myself have been using it for the last couple of months though to control our pools
• Your pool controller needs to have a static IP address assigned
• There are a few known limitations, some functionality that I know doesn't work. These are mentioned under https://github.com/cryptk/haomnilogic-local#known-limitations, but I think that almost everything that was functional under the old integrations should work under this one.
• This is a custom integration, you will need to have HACS installed, and add it as a custom repository, instructions are linked in the README at https://github.com/cryptk/haomnilogic-local#installation

Now the fun part:

The integration code is available at https://github.com/cryptk/haomnilogic-local, and it utilizes an open source library available at https://github.com/cryptk/python-omnilogic-local, everything is licensed Apache 2.0

There is quite a bit of functionality in the integration already, this is covered under https://github.com/cryptk/haomnilogic-local#functionality, but here is a quick rundown of the highlights:

• Multiple devices for your backyard and each body of water
• Control of variable speed pumps including buttons to activate your speed presets
• ColorLogic light control
• Relay control
• Heater control
• Chlorinator control (timed-percent mode only, need to find someone with an ORP sensor to implement that)

This announcement is going in a few places, and while I will try my best to keep an eye on the various spots, I have enabled GitHub Discussions to hopefully centralize any questions/discussion about the integration, you can find those at https://github.com/cryptk/haomnilogic-local/discussions

If you run into any problems, please feel free to open an issue at https://github.com/cryptk/haomnilogic-local/issues