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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 9:46 pm
by RDNZL
A topic to put some notes about my progress ...
Got RFXCom Interface support working for directly connected USB type.
Got Bluetooth Proximity basics working, very cool...
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2008/10/27 20:30:28 TVGuide support enabled.
2008/10/27 20:30:28 Found XMLTV grabber 'Holland (tv_grab_nl_C versie 0.02.6)'
2008/10/27 20:30:28 Moon phase is Morning crescent.
2008/10/27 20:30:28 Moon is in Virgo.
2008/10/27 20:30:28 Age from new 27 days.
2008/10/27 20:30:28 Distance 61.78 Earth radii.
2008/10/27 20:30:28 Ecliptic latitude: -4.31 degrees.
2008/10/27 20:30:28 Ecliptic longitude: 196.93 degrees.
2008/10/27 20:30:28 This is a leap year.
2008/10/27 20:30:28 Season is fall.
2008/10/27 20:30:28 It's dark outside.
2008/10/27 20:30:29 Asterisk TCP socket connected.
2008/10/27 20:30:29 Asterisk Call Manager/1.0
2008/10/27 20:35:28 Bluetooth Proximity detected that 'Ron' is home!
Got some bugs here and there fixed...
Still some things to do before test release... will be continued...
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:02 pm
by Snelvuur
i wonder if my "big ass" bluetooth receiver will work too
it has a bigger range and stuff.. but this looks also very nice.. you have been a busy person.
// Erik (binkey.nl)
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:09 pm
by RDNZL
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by snelvuur</i>
<br />i wonder if my "big ass" bluetooth receiver will work too
it has a bigger range and stuff.. but this looks also very nice.. you have been a busy person.
// Erik (binkey.nl)
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">I'm using bluez-utils, so as long as hcitool and rfcomm work on your 'dongle', you should be ok.. I have only tested it with max 3 detected bt devices, but you get a scrollbar automatically if needed [8D]
To be honest I was with my family this weekend, so I was busy with something else...[^]
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:17 pm
by Snelvuur
i tested it out with a old bluetooth receiver, but the range was really hard to detect.. take a iphone for instance, it normally doesn't show.. and with hcitool to get "range" you first needed to connect..
// Erik (binkey.nl)
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:27 pm
by RDNZL
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by snelvuur</i>
<br />i tested it out with a old bluetooth receiver, but the range was really hard to detect.. take a iphone for instance, it normally doesn't show.. and with hcitool to get "range" you first needed to connect..
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">I have a cheap Sitecom BT dongle, my iPAQ 514's RSSI varies between -10 and -23 depending on where it is in my house (and I have a small house), so I guess thats quite usable...
Well..most of the things I build just because I have the hardware laying around, often it's of no use at all [:o)]
The rfcomm connect part is a bit weird, I have to find a way to automatically connect from within my program (you have to accept it ones on your phone), but after that you need to setup the serial connect every time, setting it to 'bind yes' in rfcomm.conf doesn't work all the time.
I have also used 'hcitool scan' to see if a device is around (without need for connect), but then you get no field strength.
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:06 am
by Snelvuur
iphones are drained quickly anyway.. in my case i can also say "if connected to wifi" but it only connects again when i turn it on.. but hey, there are more ways to rome then 1.. i had a little shell script that said "i'am far away" "i'am close" and "i'am away"
// Erik (binkey.nl)
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 9:30 pm
by RDNZL
To see how busy my DomotiGa server is I have build the ServerStats module.
So load avg. and memory usage is monitored.
It's certainly busy at some times, but not overloaded..
Hardware is an Asus eeebox running Ubuntu 8.04.1
But I also occasionally internet browse and/or edit pictures with gimp on it.
Regard,
Ron.
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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:47 pm
by Snelvuur
for a eee box its still a good performance...
// Erik (binkey.nl)
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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 3:22 am
by Snelvuur
so how is it going?
// Erik (binkey.nl)
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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 8:38 pm
by RDNZL
Been strugling to get it running on Ubuntu 8.10 but couldn't get it running stable yet. Going back to 8.04.
Have build better device handling, it now only stores values in the database if those are different than old values, saves a lot of system resources.
Also made a setting on every device so you can choose if you want to see device status changes in the logs or not...
Weeder support is working and build ITHO fan device support, so I can control my ventilation.
Still trying to get first version released soon, have a feature stop at the moment... hold on a bit...
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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 9:59 pm
by Esteban
Very cool, good to hear it's progressing well.
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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 11:47 pm
by Snelvuur
if we get the discount for plugwise, i could perhaps try and make something for that.. but hey, i think your a better coder then me, i just play around..
but we will wait..
// Erik (binkey.nl)
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Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 12:12 pm
by pchick
Intro...
Hello,
I read about your project on the automated home website. I'm very interested and would like to help / use / develop if possible.
I would like to see if I could integrate xPL (I currently use this as my main interconnect layer) into DomotiGa.
Ive started to play around with Gambas and already ported some of my xPL code to it sucessfully.
Is it possible to have access to the source (read only or a snapshot) sometime so I could start having a look?
Regards
Peter
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Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:10 pm
by tparvais
Hello
Will DomotiGa support all 1-wire sensors from Hobby-board natively via USB/Serial interface ? IT will be very nice: T°, humidity, Rain, wind, counter....
Thank you
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Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:54 pm
by Snelvuur
I think, when he will release it , it will also be on the automated home webpage.. we are all eager to see it. But like any good coder knows, rushing is a bad practice..
// Erik (binkey.nl)