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