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Domogik: Take Control of Your Home

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A few typos :

- administrate from your couche -> your couch?

- Createphotorealism interfaces -> create photorealistic interfaces ?

- A open solution -> an open solution

Otherwise, looks good! I really like the ebook reader integration! Maybe it's not practical yet, because it's a hassle to visit sites from a ereader, but still a good idea.

How does it compare to other existing open source home automation solutions? What is the vision behind this product?

Another typo:

Under "It allows you to..." both places you begin a point with "Controlling..." it should be simply "Control".

Thanks to both of you.

A contributor said on IRC me he'd correct that quickly.

FYI: #domogick on freenode

- administer from your couch

While "administrate" is acceptable, it's longer, less common, and sounds a bit awkward to me.

> Calculate 3 times 5 plus 4 minus 2

> 3 + 4 * 5 - 2 = 21

Can this integrate with http://home-assistant.io / HASS ?

On practice i'll Say yes with the web api sensors ans commands are available through http(s) resquest. If home assistant can get/send api request it will work.

I thought they're competing against each other in this case? aren't they doing similar things?

new stuff to know for sure.

Interesting project, bookmarked for further research! Surprised I have not come across it before, have periodically been searching for things in this space..

Are there any open source system aimed at larger installations? This space is dominated by Crestron, AMX, Extron, Control4, Savant (walled gardens). And they don't even provide a good solution for larger systems, you have to code that yourself, while walking through the toolchain/compiler minefield.

I used to work for a company called ihiji (see ihiji.com) that specialized in providing a remote monitoring interface for Crestron, AMX, Control4, etc....

Those systems were all pretty good at the local management side of the house, at least for the modules they had. But they never had any clue about remote monitoring and management.

We spent a lot of time working out the protocols for those systems so that we could appear to be a local standard node on their network, in order to provide that remote interface. It was a major royal pain.

But I did get a good invited talk out of the experience, and I still think that project was the closest I ever got to doing anything really cool.

Sorry I missed this response, thanks for the tip about ihiji, looks interesting!

> working out the protocols for those systems [...] It was a major royal pain.

I can only imagine; I wrote an Extron GlobalViewer client module for Crestron controllers back in the day. At least Extron was willing to share the protocol, but it was absolute junk and a nightmare to implement.

These walled systems are used everywhere in universities, government and other places where the bill lands with the taxpayer. Not only for the equipment, but also for the specialized training required to learn their broken tools.

Hopefully someone will build an innovative solution on commodity hardware like RPi...

So, question about pronunciation here — the “gik” part of the name would rhyme with “meek” or “freak” or “beak”, right?

So, for those of us for whom English is or first language and are truly horrible at any attempt to speak a foreign language like French, we should think of this project as “domo-geek”?

I’m assuming the “domo” part comes from Majordomo, but you obviously couldn’t re-use that name, right?

I think it's from domus (house in latin) and logic.

Is it Cloudy, or can you run it with no internet connection ?

It could be run as a standalone installation without internet. But you will miss nootification via SMS or notifry service. Few plugins require internet.

Probably, should have instead linked to a page, that explains what domogik actually does. Home page fails to do that.

I can't find any information about supported hardware, sensors etc. ... Why?

Seems like it's mostly a framework. There's a whole dashboard[0] where you can see plugins for supporting various hardware.

[0] http://repo-public.domogik.org/dashboard

Actually Lost plugin are on submit or dev branch. Most or them works correctly but are not yet lots use so they stay in submit/dev branch. Zwave Onewire Knx Plcbus Miroir Karotz nabaztag Velbus Teleinformation Yahoo weather Météo France vigilance SMS And a lot of others :)

Somes plugins that need internet: -Xee (follow your cars position and status). -Nest and Withings (but they are in early dev).

Others plugins in dev MQTT,rfxcomm,Yi cam,ebusd(for boiler),hue,script,ping,callerid,mysensors,rainhour (french service),wake on lan, geolocation (smartphone usage),bluetooth presence.

I certainly miss somes but thats a good start :)

"Administrate from your couche"

I wish to do everything from my couche!

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