Last weekend I received my new receiver (hah, I’m a word artist!), it is an Onkyo TX-NR414. Here’s a picture of it in all its glory:
Posts Tagged ‘HouseAgent’
Byebye RabbitMQ, hello 0MQ!
October 17th, 2011
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The core architecture of HouseAgent is build around a messaging system known as RabbitMQ. This worked out fine so far, however during development we discovered a major drawback of RabbitMQ. RabbitMQ uses Erlang, which is a 70MB download.. *yikes*. In the future I want to be able to run HouseAgent on low memory platforms: for [...]
Installing HouseAgent on Linux
July 13th, 2011
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Following up on yesterday’s post, here are the instructions to install HouseAgent on Linux. I took one of the most popular Linux distribution’s (Ubuntu) for this blog post, but it should be easy to apply this guide for other distributions as well. Step 1: installing HouseAgent prerequisites The first step is to install the HouseAgent [...]
HouseAgent: plug-ins
June 15th, 2011
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Yesterday’s post introduced HouseAgent. In today’s post we will dive deeper into HouseAgent plug-ins and their architecture. HouseAgent plug-ins can be programmed in any language, but Python is by far the preferred language for plug-ins. The previous post mentioned that a plug-in is a completely isolated component in the HouseAgent network. While this is true [...]
Introducing HouseAgent
June 14th, 2011
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HouseAgent is a multi platform, open source home automation application. That was the short introduction of something I have been working on for quite some months already. HouseAgent has been running as my own home automation software for some time. I hear you asking, why not use one of the standard software products available? There [...]
From Python module to GUI, software evolution
April 16th, 2011
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Having a Python module to control a z-wave network is great, but not really directly useful in practice. I can’t imagine myself switching lamps on and off everyday using a Python script. However, with a nice GUI it will become much more useful. Today I created a GUI around the py-openzwave module, for use within [...]
