Open Source Automation

Vaughn wrote:I will go ahead and move the source over and peek at it too.

I think it was put in a different repository because it was not developed in Visual Studio. So people would generally want to store the files in a different location than their VS files.

Actually we do have the source code, its just in a separate repository.

You can see it here https://github.com/opensourceautomation/Android

Awesome to hear it is running ok and such a low power machine. This is one of my biggest roadmap issues right now. Do I improve OSA's core logic but require more computing power or Do I streamline and reduce the core logic running all the time so it has lower hardware requirements My vote would be ...

The CM17A hardware does not even support receiving X10 signals, only transmitting. So there is no way it could be re-transmitting a received X10 signal.

It's been a while since I've run OSA in client / server mode but as I remember it, only the server installed the MySQL database. When installing the client you had to point them to the MySQL database on the server. If you installed a plugin on a client all the configuration was stored in the MySQL d...

It worked in 0.4.3 It pulls down a list of all the plugins from the OSA web site and then compares it to the list of installed plugins and shows a list of all the available plugins to install. The idea was you could install new plugins from the web page. I don't know if that part actually worked. Mo...

@fiveHellions

Looks like the Nest plugin is creating a new connection to the Nest cloud without disconnecting the old connection. If the plugin is left running for an extended time, I get pages and pages of connections that can be seen in TCPView

If you want a full LCARS system wall mounted, Windows 10 Tablets are the way to go for that. Or if you have simple UI requirement you can go with a cheap Android tablet with the browser pointing to the OSA web server. By the time you purchase RPi2, touchscreen, enclosure, WiFi, power supply, etc yo...

Interest read although most of the posted comments are against the original article. I think it is mainly a misunderstand of the purpose of Win 10 IoT. The UI is not the primary objective of IoT like it is on the big Win 10.

Sounds like a nice setup. Maybe when you have a chance you could post some more details in the OSA Wiki.