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Show HN: Net-Commander – Automation and iOT IDE

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Hi, I couldn't resist any longer after 3.5 years buried in the lab to show an alpha of our new automation tool to somebody (i love this board). Please have a look at http://net-commander.com/screenshots and tell me what you think.

You can also download the alpha version for Ubuntu, Mac and Windows (it has still quit some bugs)

What's behind:

I am writing authoring software for experts since 2 decades and I wanted this time to make a tool which enables configuration tasks and automation of any networked device or service. In order to make this work like the new Excel for the new iOT and accessible to hobbiest or any person with minimal tech-skills, I followed the idea of providing a block based programming language which also can run any script in any language on the device. I hope being able to convert the block language via "pseudo" into popular languages like Javascript, C++, etc. Google's Blockly was a great inspiration for that.

Btw, another really big challenge (and very time consuming) is to write a web-based software which feels really snappy fast and works the way we know from older expert software (context menu, ribbons, main-menu, full keyboard support,...)

It is an Open-Source project and I hope somebody might like it here.

Your feedback is very welcome, greets

The example is hilarious. If volume over 60, sendSMS, 911-party attempt in lounge.

The capitalization is "IoT" [0], not "iOT".

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things

thanks, took me long to fix that all over the place. How silly of mine :-)

Don't see any contribution information? Are you planning on developing all of it yourself?

i am porting since months all my internal packages to npm. The full source stack should be there in a few weeks, all to Github (gbaumgart). Kind of messy thing if you worked with svn externals ;-)

Thank you, gonna let you know!

THis looks pretty interesting. Where do they get their docs (for javascript, etc.)?

you mean the Javascript expression editor, or just the API docs? The Expression editor uses an old dump of the Mozilla docs (scraped). At that time I've been really surprised how little documentation for JS and others exists for offline usage or simple integration in an app. It got actually worse over time. However, here the link https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gbaumgart/xide/master/widg... (2 MB). The API docs are done with jsDoc-3 and "ink-docstrap"

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