home assistant lights and other tweaks

plans/home_assistant_controls_outline.md

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+# general idea:
+- control on / off switches and lights in home assistant from the web UI
+- use this:
+  - https://www.npmjs.com/package/home-assistant-js-websocket/v/3.1.2
+  - remember to ignore updates that are of the same states, this library will give you a lot of those
+- switches and lights are configured in the server's config file
+  - give each one a name (no description)
+  - auto detect a switch type or light type
+- deliver list of lights to the UI through the session service
+- show realtime on/off status of the switches / lights in the UI
+- create a react component for the controls
+  - it will automatically create a control for each switch / light
+
+## permissions:
+- even if someone isnt assigned to a rover, they should be able to control the switches / lights