Binary builds for openHAB available!
As promised during my talks at the Eclipse Summit Europe and the OSGi Users' Forum Germany, I have finally fully automated the build of openHAB with Maven3/Tycho and uploaded the result to the openHAB...
View ArticleBuilding p2-enabled products with Tycho
Working on the build and the packaging of openHAB, I had to undergo quite some efforts to get it done with Maven3/Tycho.My special challenge was to package a product which is p2-enabled and includes...
View ArticleUsing Xbase for Home Automation Rules
Up to now openHAB has embedded JBoss Drools as a rule engine for automation rules. Although Drools is very powerful, this solution also has a few problems: The Drools IDE is not completely working in...
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This Is Not Your Father's House!
To continue the "Not your father's" series (see Sven's blog and Marcel's blog) you can imagine that if even Java and IDEs have evolved over the years, the way that people want to use and operate their...
View ArticleXtext + Xbase + Quartz + Joda Time = Perfect Rule Engine
Half a year ago I sketched my ideas for a new rule engine for the open Home Automation Bus (openHAB). I had presented an initial version at EclipseCon Europe 2011 and it is by now used by most openHAB...
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openHAB 1.0 - Home Automation For GeeksAfter 2.5 years of development, openHAB 1.0 has just been released – a big thanks to everybody involved!What comes to your mind when you hear the term Home...
View ArticleOSGi Connects the World
Although I keep talking to people about why OSGi is a great technology to do software development especially for modular systems, I today do not want to delve into technical details such as OSGi...
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openHAB 1.2 - Release Highlights
Only 8 months after our 1.0 release we have reached release 1.2 - what sounds like an unimportant change in the version, mean in reality that openHAB has now spread out to many areas of home...
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Eclipse Technologies for the Internet of Things and the Smart Home
The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the big hypes at the moment - and as usual with such a buzzword, it does not mean much at all (or rather it means something different, depending on who you talk...
View ArticleopenHAB 1.3 - Release Highlights
It is really incredible how the amount of contributions to openHAB increases: Up to our last release in April, we had a new binding about every two weeks. With the current release 1.3, we are almost up...
View Article"Leaping" Edge Home Automation at JavaOne
The JavaOne conference in San Francisco is over - it was my first JavaOne and I enjoyed it a lot. Not necessarily because of the sessions, but because of the venue and all the gifted people that I had...
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Privacy in the Smart Home - Why we need an Intranet of Things
Classical home automation used to be easy: You installed your devices at home (or probably rather had them installed by an electrician), wired things up and started using it at home. But then came the...
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openHAB 1.5 - Release Highlights
Another 4 months have passed since the openHAB 1.4 release and we are happy to announce the release of version 1.5!This is in any respect a very special release - I am proud to say that the community...
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openHAB 2.0 and Eclipse SmartHome
As I am regularly asked how the projects openHAB and Eclipse SmartHome relate to each other, so I would like to take a chance to provide background information on this topic.Since its inception in...
View ArticleOpen Source as the Best Alternative
There we have it. Already one day before Google I/O starts, the Google approach to a smart home ecosystem has been published. So just a few days after Apple's announcement of HomeKit, we developers are...
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"Forget Me Not" with openHAB and EnOcean
You might have heard about the Forget Me Not Design Challenge that has been organised by element14. There were brilliant submissions and the participants for the challenge have been chosen end of July....
View ArticleopenHAB and Eclipse SmartHome News Flash
JavaOne and the ValleyHaving spent a few days in the Silicon Valley, I feel it is time to share some experiences. The main reason for the my trip was the talk about Smart Homes for the Masses at...
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About the Pitfalls of Device Abstractions
When talking about the Internet of Things (IoT), you quickly get into the discussion about device abstraction. As a software engineer, it is natural that you want to represent a physical switch as a...
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openHAB 1.6 and 2.0 alpha Release
We have reached another milestone – openHAB 1.6 has been released! As usual, it brings a couple of new bindings and other add-ons. Just to name a few: There is now support for Belkin WeMo switches, LG...
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Recap of Eclipse IoT Days Grenoble
I just returned from two interesting days at the Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble. The main reason for my visit were the Eclipse IoT Days, organized for the second time by the university. The...
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openHAB 1.7 and 2.0 alpha 2 Release
The openHAB community is growing rapidly and so does the rate of contributions - it is therefore definitely time for a new release!We have reached a new all-time record with a total of 160 add-ons (of...
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Integrating my.openHAB with IFTTT
Today I have some great news to share - I am sure this will make openHAB attractive to even more users than ever before!my.openHAB Goes Public!Having offered the cloud companion service for openHAB...
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openHAB 1.8 and 2.0 beta1 Release
What a great start to the year 2016 - new openHAB releases are available! Although it is too late for you to play with it during the holiday season, we have used the past weeks intensively to get the...
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Semantic Interoperability in the Internet of Things
I had the honor to participate in a workshop on IoT Semantic Interoperability (IOTSI) organized by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and hosted by Ericsson in Santa Clara.There is no doubt that...
View ArticleMy blog has moved!
Please note that my blog has moved to a new location: www.kaikreuzer.deSo if you want to learn about smart home stuff at EclipseCon France, the new openHAB Foundation, the openHAB 2.0 beta3 release and...
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