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,...
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...
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...
On the last post, I introduced my new home automation project and the reasons why I started it. This article provides more details on the software running on the concentrator that controls the devices present in the home. As a reminder, here is...
This blog and my github account have been calm for the last months. This was not because I stopped developing but because I started a new project not published yet: I am currently working on a home automation system (better known as smart home...