Mind Monitor

We saw, that Home Assistant to awaken your home, an open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first, powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts, perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server is making progess.

Next to house sensors, wheather sensors, it also possible now to stream physiological sensor data from Fitbit, Garmin, and Polar devices to Home Assistant:

https://petergamma.org/polar-fitness-tr ... assistant/

Garmin mainly allows to synchronize wellness data like resting heart rate to Home Assistant, which is also great. But Polar even allows to synch all the activity data to HA.

An integration of Mind Monitor data from the Muse headband with sensor data from Acitivty trackers in HA (InfluxDB) would be highly desirable.

We saw today, that the time is over, that Garmin or other sports watches are isolated containers, which sync their data to another isolated container (Garmin Connect), where the manufacturer decides what can be done with the sensor data :

https://github.com/woolf0007/ha_strava

Data for instance from a Garmin watch can now be synched periodically over the Garmin connect app to Garmin Connect to Strava to Home Assistant, which offers dashboards, InfluxDB, Grafana, etc.

It would be highly desirable, that this freedom is also available for EEG devices. EEG devices should be able to sync their EEG data into an InfluxDB in Home Assistant together with the best heart rate sensors from sports watches. The time is here for this features. It only has to be integrated.

We do not intend to sell any hardware or software products, but without wanting it, we are currently evaluating a multi-channel laboratory recorder based on Home Assistant. Some components are missing, for instance an integration for the Mind Monitor:

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/

There are already a lot of integrations available, starting from affordable temperature sensors for 10 USD which can be streamed into InfluxDB, to the integration of the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), which shows measurements of current air quality.

We listed the real-time streaming options of the Muse Headband and the Mind Monitor here:

https://petergamma.org/muse-headband-an ... assistant/

Unfortunately, none of these options is compatible to Home Assistant. But we suppose that for a skilled progammer it should be not too difficult to connect the Mind Monitor to Home Assistant. Home Assistant supports MQTT, but as far as we know MQTT it is not required to connect to it. These integrations are usually GITHUB projects, and to not need to be supported necessarily . Home Assistant is an Open source platform which could make Science more affordable. The more sensor are integrated, the more attractive this platform becomes also for non home automation.