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Home Theater part 3: Plex playback controls

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

Robin Eggenkamp August 29, 2016 Home Cinema No Comments Read more

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

Robin Eggenkamp August 21, 2016 Software 1 Comment Read more

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

Robin Eggenkamp July 3, 2016July 5, 2016 Software 3 Comments Read more

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

Robin Eggenkamp June 29, 2016June 29, 2016 Software, Z-Wave 5 Comments Read more

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

Robin Eggenkamp June 26, 2016June 26, 2016 Software 1 Comment Read more

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

Robin Eggenkamp June 19, 2016 Software 3 Comments Read more

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

Robin Eggenkamp June 12, 2016 Software 2 Comments Read more

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.

Robin Eggenkamp June 2, 2016 Design Challenge, Software 1 Comment Read more

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Robin Eggenkamp

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