One of the goals of Thuis is optimizing it’s own rule engine based on actual activity in the house. Although time is to short to actually start the optimization, with this blog we’ll start collecting presence data using iBeacons. As
Final implementation UI design
From my holiday location at the coast of Bulgaria I finished up the implementation of the UI of Thuis. It works nicely on both the iPhones and the iPad on the wall. This blog will give you a demo and
MQTT User Interface components for iOS
How useful would a home automation system be where you could only interact through MQTT messages? Not very, so that’s why we’ll start working on the User Interface today. The goal is to create some generic UI elements, which can be linked
Core v2: A Java EE application
Since quite some time my home automation is build around a core app made in Java EE. As part of this challenge I’m improving the core and integrating it more tightly through MQTT. The core is responsible for coordinating all
Publishing activity from Z-Way to MQTT
Now we have a working Raspberry Pi 3 with Z-Way it’s time to connect it to the backbone of Thuis: MQTT. For this I developed a custom userModule/app. In this post I’ll explain what it does, how to use it and how
Installing the Raspberry Pi 3 in practice
Last week I explained how I’m using Chef to provision my Raspberry Pi’s and the recipes in my Thuis cookbook. Back then I didn’t have a Raspberry Pi 3 yet, so I tested it on an older model. This week the
Cooking up the nodes: Thuis Cookbook
In my last post I explained the basics of Chef, and in the last week I worked on defining the configuration of each node. I selected several cookbooks from the Supermarket and wrote some myself. Using a series of recipes I
Using Chef to provision Raspberry Pi’s
Inspired by one of the other challengers I started to experiment with Chef. Frederick is using Puppet to provision his Raspberry Pi’s. To get more knowledge on the several tools out there we decided to both try one. So that’s why
Software Architecture
To make the Thuis app as flexible and efficient as possible a solid architecture is needed for the system. Different systems have different properties, which are most important, for Thuis it’s important to provide the wanted functionality, be reliable, usable and adaptable.