Hello everybody. I am back writing after a long break due to unexpected personal events followed by a busy period working on edKit and smart home. However here is the third article of this series on the GoogleCast protocol. This one will cover...
The first article of the series explained the principles of the google-cast protocol, and the technologies that it uses. In this second part, we will see how the receiver device is discovered, and how the sender device connects to it. Discovery -...
Since the availability of the Chromecast in 2013, and the public release of its SDK in 2014, only few information was published about the protocol used by this device: Google Cast. This article is the first of a series that will explain the...
it is quite hard to feel how edLeak and edVent simplify some tasks that otherwise can take several hours or even days. So in order to allow everybody to learn and test edKit's tools, I started an edKit github page site. The most interesting...
When working on an embedded system a usual setup is to export the rootfs via NFS. If you run the unit tests on the target or the functional tests while developing, then maybe you run them manually on the target console. Today I will show how to...
States machines are everywhere, used in all programming languages. Some people are fond of them, and others hate them. They may be easy to read or very cryptic, and most of the time they are not easy to debug. I will show you today how to improve...
When developing in C++ a usual task is to demangle the name of a C++ method to pretty-print it. Sometimes one also need to achieve the opposite conversion. This article explains some ways to do this, depending on whether you need a dynamic or...
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,...