I recently discovered Atom, a code editor developed by GitHub. When a friend showed it to me last year I must admit that I made fun of him : It was still at an early stage, quite slow, and really buggy. But since that time its development was...
One year ago, I announced the start of new smart home project project, and detailed the motivations and aims of it. This year was a busy one and a lot of parts of this project have evolved. It also now has a name. After twelve months of...
Now that the foundations are done, my home automation system has to study before it hopefully becomes smart one day. This was the part I worked on lately. What to study Studying means that actions must be saved so that they can later be analyzed,...
The GStreamer conference 2015 occurred last month. I was present this year again. It was the occasion see what is coming in the next releases and meet people that do various things with GStreamer. Moreover I presented a project that we started...
This year the GStreamer conference will occur at Dublin, Ireland, the 8th and 9th October. I will attend this year again, and I will present a new project that we started during the last months at SoftAtHome : HeliosTv. This project is a base...
8 months have now passed since I bought a macbook pro. While this switch was considered as silly by some fellows, it has proven to be a good choice, even for linux embedded development. If you also consider such a move from Linux to MacOs X, this...
I have been using the mobile application of my smart home system for several months, and the latency fear has come true : Connecting to the XMPP server from a mobile network can be very slow. Here is a first attempt to understand why, and how...
Generating an id is a usual task when coding. Depending on the project, these ids can be internal to a component, shared inside a process, shared between several process, or even shared between several systems. A usual use-case in embedded...
I recently added an initial support of the Somfy RTS protocol in Flock. Thanks to the rfxcom RFXtrx433e device, this was quite easy. For now only pairing a device and open/close commands are supported. This means that you can now control your...
Choosing a protocol to communicate between a platform and some clients is not an easy task. Depending on the type services that are exposed, the features of the clients, and the operating system running on the clients, there are many choices...