PiDome Blog/News

Start building towards releases

By John Sirach on Wednesday, August 28^th 2013, at 21:55

(Updated: Thursday, August 29^th 2013, at 21:55)

The last week Marcel and I where discussing when we would do our first PiDome Domotica/Home automation release, and if we should do nightly builds en RC releases. We decided to go through with this. When we start with releasing our software and hardware, we will start with early nightly build releases, let input come in, build features, feature freeze, release release candidates and then real releases. And of course after every release continue building the software.

Raspberry Pi monitor - display resolution "problems"

By John Sirach on Thursday, August 22^nd 2013, at 15:15

News/Blog post Raspberry Pi monitor - display resolution

Now that the client and the server are in sync, saying that the server functionality is represented in the client. I was thinking it's time to begin with scaling so that different resolutions will display the exact same client interface. Already having some code to do the calculations, and some controls correctly scaled, it is now time to make it work as it really should. Just to see what happens on the pi when i change the framebuffer, thus thinking changing resolutions, i made changes in /boot/config.txt and set framebuffer_width=1280 and framebuffer_height=720. Well here the result in the below screenshot.

Working with "heating" and "cooling" light colors

By John Sirach on Wednesday, August 21^st 2013, at 11:50

(Updated: Wednesday, September 25^th 2013, at 11:50)

Coloring your house with light is just a thing that is a matter of taste. Some like deep red, others like light purple or green. There are two things where most interior designers agree too: The so called warm colors like orange, red and yellow mixed can give a cozier warmer feeling, while the cool colors like light purple, blueish and i think also green, can give a cooler and more spacious feeling. Well, this is a conclusion when i read about house lighting. So, what next?

Added some screenshots

By John Sirach on Monday, August 19^th 2013, at 15:10

I have added some screenhots

Some global progress

By John Sirach on Sunday, August 18^th 2013, at 18:04

(Updated: Wednesday, August 21^st 2013, at 18:04)

News/Blog post Some global progress image

What is a blog without progress, because of the hastle keeping the static page updated we didn't do a lot. So in posting i want to show some progress we made. The server and the java client are being developed in sync, meaning when a feature is build into the server, the server is on hold and work is being done in the client. When the server feature is build in the client we continue with the server development. This slows down overall development, but then we are sure everything is being implemented. (in the listings we say raspberry but of course this is Linux, but some features are rasp only).

Done setting up new website

By John Sirach on Sunday, August 18^th 2013, at 15:24

(Updated: Wednesday, August 21^st 2013, at 15:24)

Yesterday we decided to move our quite static page at pidome.bitbucket.org to pidome.wordpress.com (also the new destination for http://pidome.org).

Client and webservice interaction

By John Sirach on Saturday, July 13^th 2013, at 15:07

Again, sorry for the lack of sound, and the slow typing, was filming with one hand, and typing and "mousing" with the other. Some extra glimps of the extremely early java pidome clients (java client graphical updated).

An extremely early pidome client preview

By John Sirach on Friday, July 5^th 2013, at 15:02

The movie shows the very first glimp of the java version of the PiDome client working with the PiDome server, and turning a set of lights on and off and changing the system state. You will see that the server state will be broadcasted realtime to the client. So if one client changes state of something, the second client will catch this instantly (as it should).