Plex is software which makes it possible to enjoy all of your media on all your devices. When on the server you create a library based on video (and music, photos, etc) files, Plex finds the corresponding metadata and gives you an
Home Theater part 2: controls
In Final implementation UI design you saw our Thuis iOS app, which has a few buttons for controlling the Home Theater. In this post we’ll make sure they work well. For brevity I will describe only the main scene: it makes sure we can
Home Theater part 1: CEC
An important part of Thuis is integration of our Home Theater system. As the integration is quite extensive and consists of several components, this will be a 3-part blog series. In the first part we start with communicating to CEC-enabled devices from
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