Recent content by deandob

All,   Sorry I haven't been posting lately, been busy with my day job.   A while back I offered to setup an online demo of my HA software that I have been posting about in this thread. Seeming as it had received a bit of interest and I'm now on holidays I'm prepared to setup a cloud demo...

I thought this recent facebook article by Mark Zuckerberg about how he automated his house by himself was worth sharing with this community, especially for those of you who prefer to make & build the software & hardware like I do. Impressive that someone as powerful & busy as the CEO of Facebook...

Larry, why is that? Apparently you can send it commands via serial over the microusb power connector (eg. connect a ESP8266 to it). Also the API for the smartphone app is planed to be open then you can issue commands over a BT connection. Z-Wave support is also planned. Inbuilt solar recharging...

All, has anyone played with this kickstarter project "Move"? Seems like a nice solution for automating blinds / curtains and price is reasonable with good connectivity options (BT and Z-Wave) and solar for recharging...

Neverdie, have a read of the blog post at hackaday.io where I outline the some of the problems with home automation and how to address them in software   This software isn't perfect and hasn't addressed all the topics for home automation / IoT (eg. needs more work on security) but it does...

No problems,   I'm happy to share - I do think the solution offers benefits not found in similar software HA packages, but it does need more work to be more robust and built out (especially more plug-ins). I'll also see what the intial feedback is, I may do a proper job open-sourcing it so that...

Thanks Bob, glad to see it finally working.   Do post back what you end up using it for and if you have any further questions do let me know, even better if you have made any fixes / improvements (which there are many to do), do share them back.

Bob, that isn't a fatal error, it is from a widget I haven't finished developing, the designer will still work (the intercom widget will be disabled as the message says). You can delete intercom.html from the widgets directory if you want to remove the warning.   However I have been doing some...

Hi Bob, the designer is working but I noticed you are using Firefox from the image attached. Switch to Internet Explorer and you should find it working. I use IE and Edge as my preferred browsers and the client was developed in Internet Explorer so there are a couple of issues with Chrome & Edge...

IVB, very informative video and interesting to see the 'car automation'. Thanks for sharing.

Bob, if you didn't change anything in the javascript and just ran it from Visual Studio and the designer is now working but it didn't when you initially ran via the URL http://<your_server_name>/HAClient.html that doesn't make much sense. Does it still not work when running via URL?   Also, make...

I get this error on my freshly built server as well, the fix is simple that the start page needs to be set to HAClient.html. Go into solution explorer, right click the file HAClient.html and 'set as start page' (this setting doesn't come across from GitHub). Ensure you have the server console...

Hmm. Have you tried running the client code in Visual Studio and stepping through HAClient.html to see where it gets stuck? It isn't reaching the websocket network section because you would have network status messages even if it couldn't connect to the server in the bottom status bar. Also not...

You are ready to go if you get the screen I have added in the hackaday instructions. Use Internet Explorer for the meantime until I adjust the HTML5 to be optimized for Edge/Chrome.    Steps to configure the client initially: https://hackaday.io/project/13029/instructions   Select the 'design'...

Bob,   Have you checked the firewall settings, seems like there is an access control problem with Express, the Node.JS web server or you have another web server on the machine active taking port 80.   Also homeserver is the name of my hub server and has been hard coded (my bad, not a good...