I started working on some home automation stuff; where main server (that controls light bulbs for now) is a MeeGo based Netbook, and I am planning to create three apps for three major platforms Symbian, Android and iOS, because at my home these three platforms are used extensively :)

Milot Shala wrote:

I started working on some home automation stuff; where main server (that controls light bulbs for now) is a MeeGo based Netbook, and I am planning to create three apps for three major platforms Symbian, Android and iOS, because at my home these three platforms are used extensively :)

Sounds great, Milot. Can you tell me how you design. Do you know uPnP or DLNA, and how you connect server to the light bulbs,use bluetooth or wifi ? I just plan to work on RC cars controlling use Symbian phone, ww55va91(ARM) and OmniVision OV7725 to capture images.

Chuck.Gao wrote:

Milot Shala wrote:

I started working on some home automation stuff; where main server (that controls light bulbs for now) is a MeeGo based Netbook, and I am planning to create three apps for three major platforms Symbian, Android and iOS, because at my home these three platforms are used extensively :)

Sounds great, Milot. Can you tell me how you design. Do you know uPnP or DLNA, and how you connect server to the light bulbs,use bluetooth or wifi ? I just plan to work on RC cars controlling use Symbian phone, ww55va91(ARM) and OmniVision OV7725 to capture images.

Well this is how I am doing it:

I am using an Arduino [arduino.cc] board and I am connecting the Arduino board with the Linux machine and I am sending commands to Arduino boards via Serial using libserial [libserial.sourceforge.net] on the other part, the software that is on server is a TCP server which listens to TCP commands (the exact same thing that I’ve done on Komedy and Komedy Remote [qt.nokia.com] video [youtube.com]) and I created a simple set of commands to do this, and also see the video [youtube.com] just instead of an LED I am sending 5v to a relay and transforming that in order I could control the light bulb, but testing is done using LEDs first :P

To Milot: Clear. Looking forward to your app. And one suggestion, can you make it via wifi or 2.4G RF later? It’s more useful to other home automation staff i think.

Chuck.Gao wrote:

To Milot: Clear. Looking forward to your app. And one suggestion, can you make it via wifi or 2.4G RF later? It’s more useful to other home automation staff i think.

Well for now it’ll work via wifi; Of course if I want to make it control over the Internet I will have a web server somewhere and make my app listen to that web server (download an XML every 2 minutes and compare if something has changed) :)

Milot Shala wrote:

Well for now it’ll work via wifi; Of course if I want to make it control over the Internet I will have a web server somewhere and make my app listen to that web server (download an XML every 2 minutes and compare if something has changed) :)

Hi Milot, can i put your app idea on the topic’s ideas list? And others can find you if he/she interested in. And if over the web server, maybe use an ETag for comparation is more convenient. Anyway, wait for your good news.

Chuck.Gao wrote:

Milot Shala wrote:

Well for now it’ll work via wifi; Of course if I want to make it control over the Internet I will have a web server somewhere and make my app listen to that web server (download an XML every 2 minutes and compare if something has changed) :)

Hi Milot, can i put your app idea on the topic’s ideas list? And others can find you if he/she interested in. And if over the web server, maybe use an ETag for comparation is more convenient. Anyway, wait for your good news.

Of course you can; This is not originally my idea, there are plenty of people doing home automation, I could get a special home automation hardware, but thing is that I want to do it myself.

Homeberry USB Radio All made by hands with a fancy front gui. :D
Very interesting i think,and i have made a hardware proto and software.
And it now can run on varisous of Linux Distributions and Meego
HAHA~! :D

@lovewilliam lovewilliam: Sounds interesting:).So, what’s makes the GUI, Qt or Qml? And what’s meaning of “All made by hands”? I think it’ll be nice if you can give us a link to show up your Homeberry :D

@Chuck.Gao

Qt not Qml

Software and the hardware are build by yourself ,DIY somehow ~haha!:-D.

Using atmel mcu and tea5767 radio module in the hardware and Qt in the software.

my work is here : http://www.bigstarstar.tk/home/lovewilliam/Develop/Radio/ [bigstarstar.tk]

you can make one yourself ,that’s easy and funny:-D

My next Qt app takes the sensor data from 20 friends phone (from different countries) and puts that up on Pachube. The sensors are : accelerometer, Magnetometer, light sensor, GPS. The idea is to create a way to know where they are , what is the weather (at least light or dark), which direction they are moving, whether they(or their phone) is upside down or not. Seriously, we will think up more useful application based on collected sensor data

Hi rselva123, sounds great! And one question, the number of the friends, it will be over 20, or just 20 for max? In my opinion, it’s a little bit more. Under 10 or 5 is more useful and acceptable i think :D

rselva123 wrote:

My next Qt app takes the sensor data from 20 friends phone (from different countries) and puts that up on Pachube. The sensors are : accelerometer, Magnetometer, light sensor, GPS. The idea is to create a way to know where they are , what is the weather (at least light or dark), which direction they are moving, whether they(or their phone) is upside down or not. Seriously, we will think up more useful application based on collected sensor data

How about call it Sensing SNS ? I’m not good at naming :D

I’m developing a CAD application. It will have standard commands like Autocad, and also commands optimized for touch devices, mobiles and tablets. So far there isn’t any good 3D Cad alternatives for linux. With Qt it will be multi plataform. It is still in a very early development stage.

That’s quiet a challenge!

There is a free 2d cad available for windows and mac and linux. The last 2 are in beta stadium now.

Look for Draftsight on the internet. It has the 2d capabilities like autocad, but nothing 3d.

It’s free to download, but not open source though.