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Thursday I went - together with my brother (Martin) - to an event on Home Automation (Beurs Domotica & Slim Wonen). On this event a number of installers and manufacturers of home automation equipment were represented. We used this opportunity to do some market research. Most significant to realize, and what we knew before going to the ...

When writing this post I realized how many design choices I have already made while designing the first prototype. Too much to blog about, so I will only discuss a few design choices I have made. Firstly, I would like to start with describing the domain of the first DSLs. The first DSLs will be used to define the capabilities of devices that will ...

From the embedded prototyping systems I considered, the Arduino is one of the cheapest and the most popular ones. The combination with the ethernet shield will make it the perfect addition for my home automation project. This weekend I received the one that I have ordered online.   The ATmega328 microcontroller used by the Arduino includes ...

In my previous posts I have given an impression of the current situation (how the hardware is connected, which software I use). It is very tempting to dig into hardware and software details now, but during previous experiences with designing DSLs I learned that this will be the wrong way. During my Master’s thesis a few years ago I did an ...

The hardware that I have selected offers the functionality that I will need for this project. Unfortunately, this is not the case for all the software that was provided with the selected hardware. PlugWise is the only one providing software with webinterfaces and some kind of webservices. The other software is simply not focused on extensions to ...

In a series of blog posts about the domain of my home automation DSL I'd like to start by giving a first and high level description of the problem domain. I'm going to do this by explaining the current situation of my own home automation system. Since, I have the intention to create a home automation system that will be suitable for a broad ...

After moving to the apartment of my girlfriend and my and doing some jobs to make it our place, I recently took a week off to work on some of my ideas. One of the projects I started is a DSL for home automation and smart metering.  The goal of the DSL will be to simplify the way of building add-ins to support several types of devices like ...