Saturday, April 22, 2017

Home Automation for Makers: still a long voyage?

My dear 10 readers,

I have been away for some time, travelling through disturbed waters of work and life, but I'm back.

I have some small troubles with my HomeAuto system. Nothing really terrible, but annoying.

  1. My Ardino Yun positioned in my bathroom has stopped working. It is up and running, but it has left my WIFI network and I need to have a close look at its configuration. Yun is a rather expensive board, as compared for example to Particle Photon and I'm thinking that probably it is not the right board for my experiments. Fortunately I have bought only one.
  2. I have tried to test the new Fishino IDE, that should enable me to do OTA update on that card. But I think I need also to upgrade Fishino firmware to have OTA enabled. Some wiring and low-level upgrade, hoping that in half a day it will return back in my fleet of rooms' devices.
  3. I have left for a while in my 'bag of ideas' the project of moving the entire HomeAuto to a K8S based infrastructure... it will take more time than I expected (or I have less free time than expected). But it is an interesting idea and I'll continue on that.

Anyway: the point is that if you want to have a 24x7, well made, HomeAuto system, only few days of work are not enough.

Better said: one thing is to build a working prototype and a completely different thing is to set-up an industrialized solution, reliable and easily to maintain.

Well, most of you will think: where is the news?
Ok, but millions of happy maker(nerd)s are aware of this? Hope so.

Stay tuned.

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