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[pipersw]

[Name:] Pipersw
[Country:] France
[City:] Fresnes
[Occupation:] Electronic Designer.
[Hobbies:] Computers, aeromodelism, electronic.
[Choise for domoticz:]
It run on Raspberry, it's cheap, easy, and open source.
[My role here?] I could help with translating into french and request some help on Domoticz.
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[sebitop]

[Name:] Sebitop
[Country:] France
[City:] Toulouse
[Occupation:] Sales marketing, ex computer engineer.
[Hobbies:] DIY, travel and new tech.
[Choise for domoticz:]
I have a house, I want it automated with a simple and free solution, my cousin present on this website recommended me domoticz
Now I jumped waiting for my raspberry to start !
[My role here?]
share my experience, benefits from others and help as possible all new users !

thanks for your warm welcome !

[mvdl]

[Name:] MvdL
[Country:] The Netherlands
[City:] Nijmegen
[Occupation:] Systems & Software Engineering Consultant
[Hobbies:] Programming (scripting), Web development (HTML, Javascript), Graphics and more recently and in the future: Home automation...
[Choice for domoticz:] Not commited, but I like the approach of using Lua to handle events (even if not yet optimal). Also, flexibility to customize front-end (floorplan, anybody?)
[My role here:] Generally want to experiment with Domoticz and contribute where I can and in so far as I have free time. Think along the lines of: programming lua, web front-end, possibly back-end.
[Equipment:] Raspberry Pi, QNAP NAS, Home Theater stuff, the rest to be decided upon

[The_it_bloke]

[Name] Paul
[Country] UK
[Location] Hampshire
[Occupation] IT Systems & Solutions Manager
[Hobbies] Gadgets, SciFi, Computers, Electronics, Skiing, Mountain biking, Internet of Things, making things, taking things apart, trying to put things together again after I've taken them apart.
[Experience] Digital & Analogue circuit design, Low Power RF data comms, Plant Control/PLC/SCADA, Corporate IT Systems, CRM Systems, Data Security and Data Centre Management
[My Equipment] Wintel PC’s/Servers, Mac, Cat7 wired GB ethernet, Arduino, RPi, Intel Galileo, home made interfaces, RFXCOM, Home Easy Switches, Owl Energy Monitor
[My Role Here] Learn enough to be able to control my home build interfaces through Domoticz then create WIKI’s to help other newbies like me
[Choice for Rpi/Domoticz] I live in a 100yr old cottage with outbuildings and a large garden, I need to monitor movement sensors, control external lighting, electric gates, 2 heating systems and alarm/intruder sensors. I need a flexible, distributed (2 buildings), very low power system which has built in decision making logic, seamless integration with different equipment providers, logging and a browser interface so RPi and Domoticz seems Ideal!

My current project is a RPi interface using a HumblePi PCB and 2 MCP23017 chips providing 32 Digital I/O and driving an LCD from Python - ideally talking to Domoticz through the SPI

[xmeslin]

[Name:] xmeslin
[Country:] France
[City:] Paris
[Occupation:] IP networking
[Hobbies:] Computers, scripting, sports
[Choise for domoticz:]
I bought a zipabox and because it is buggy and not very flexible and open I finally wrote all my use case through home made script using their API and then since I only using API why not asomething more open ...

[triathlete78130]

[Name:] Pierre
[Country:]France
[City:] Les Mureaux
[Occupation:] Enterprise Architect (in IT), Presales
[Hobbies:] Computers, gadgets, Triathlon (ironman), Scubadiving
[Choise for domoticz:]
I have refurbished my house and put some Somfy Blinds.
I was looking to automate them since a while at cheap price... then I found the RFXdevice that allowed me to do it. and the easiest way was to do it with Raspberry PI and DOmoticz at my sense.
Then What I want to do is to build an alarm (when my dog is not at home..) ...

Domoticz was the simplest solution at my eyes to do it.
[My role here?]
Have some information.
Share experience.
Do Testing
Ask question for my next projects (Alarm)
And do coding if needed (depending on the language used, and also help in translation...)

[remcoaak]

[Name:] Remco
[Country:]The Netherlands
[City:] Utrecht
[Occupation:] Business Architect
[Hobbies:] Computers, gadgets
[Choice for domoticz:]
Domoticz looks good and is easy to use, and good to use with my new z-wave products.


[My role here?]
Get information, see if my experience with some products can help others.
[Equipment:] Raspberry Pi's (one with Razberry), Northq power reader, bunch of Fibaro switches

[pjanzen]

[Name:] Paul
[Country:] The Netherlands
[City:] Haarlem
[Occupation:] Application Analyst, Main job at the moment is at a large ISP maintaining exim and dhcp platform for docsis modems.
[Hobbies:] Computers, gadgets, scripting (python, perl, java) and movies/series.
[Choice for domoticz:] I have looked at houseAgent for example but I never got that working, I came across domoticz and that worked out of the box

[phred91]

[Name:] David
[Country:] United Kingdom
[City:] Maidenhead
[Occupation:] Sales and solution development at large IT services company.
[Hobbies:] Gadgets, running, cycling, swimming, hiking, travel, skiing, sailing, home automation
[Choice for domoticz:] I like domoticz because of the active development, new bells and whistles being added almost daily, and because it communicates with the widest variety of devices, wired and wireless. I have two systems, one in the house and one in the garden office, that talk to each other. The house system uses the RFXTRX433 to control door sensors, motion sensors, lights, cameras, temperature sensors, doorbell, smoke alarm and burglar alarm. The office system uses a Z-Wave USB stick and PiFace to control door sensors, motion sensors, cameras, lights, heating, wind sensor, rain sensor, burglar alarm, exhaust fan, flood lights, etc. The office system is solar powered, completely off-grid. I am trying to figure out how to measure voltage and amperage. And I'm looking forward to getting the new RFXTRXE-433 so I can control the new powered blinds I've ordered! Great project, keep up the good work!

[wadoline]

[Name:] Sebastian
[Country:] Spain
[City:] Las Palmas
[Occupation:] Engineering
[Hobbies:] Computers, music, video edition
[Choise for domoticz:]
Looking for something flexible ...[/quote]

[Conn-artist]

[Name:] Martijn
[Country:] The Netherlands
[City:] somewhere in the Randstad
[Occupation:] IT Specialist in middleware software - business to business applications, web applications, database backends
[Hobbies:] Computers running Linux, embedded software, electronics, making music, model plane building/flying, gardening, lots of other stuff
[Choise for domoticz:] Didn't look for anything else because this is FOSS and it runs on an RPi which I had lying around already.
[My role here?] Share knowledge, contribute to discussions, we'll see how it pans out.

[geoffnewnham]

[Name] Geoff Newnham
[Home Country] UK
[Interest/Occupation] IT Company Director. Just getting into Home Automation using Fibaro and Domoticz. Looking at using Domoticz to interface LightwaveRF to Fibaro.
[My Role Here] To play around with Domoticz and offer any useful knowledge or suggestions I have.

[rjnl]

[Name:] Ron
[Country:] The Netherlands
[City:] Randstad
[Occupation:] IT Project & Programme Manager with expertise in Webhosting, Datacenters, Enterprise Infrastructure, Cloud, Automation, Networking, Storage, Application Servers, Middleware, Monitoring, Disaster Recovery, High-availablity, High-Performance computing
[Hobbies:] IT in general, My homelab, Cars, Motorcycles, Sailing and now some home automation =D
[Choise for domoticz:] Prefer open source solutions to play around with. Ended up with domoticz vs openHAB and went domotics because it's in C instead of java and the community seems much more vibrant. I got a Aeon Labs S2 Z-wave stick and the RFXtrxE. Running on a VMware VM with 1GB RAM using Debian 7. VM runs in HA mode on a VMware cluster based on 2x HP Microserver G8, both with Xeon E3-1220v2 cpu's and 16GB ECC DDR3. Storage through iSCSI from a HP microserver N40L based SAN (omniOS) and using SSD caching in vmware. Thought about getting a raspberry but I have this running anyway so I went with total overkill :+
[My role here?] Not really that much of a programmer, but I'll contribute wherever I can sharing knowledge, providing feedback, let's see what happens.

[BertB]

[Name:] Bert
[Country:] The Netherlands
[City:] Amsterdam area
[Occupation:] Medical engineer in a hospital, maintaining medical equipment, assisting users, signalling problems before they emerge, account management, goal keeper. Walking the extra mile to help keeping patients and staff safe.
[Hobbies:] Anything technical, at current domotics. Motorbiking. And motorbiking. Learning.
[Choise for Domoticz:] Not sure yet. It looks very promising, but I do not have a lot of experience. I have a small system build around KAKU/COCO, but I believe for some purposes a handshake is required. Ik hope Z-Wave can provide that.
[My role here:] Not much for now. First I have to understand whats going on. So, forgive me asking 'stupid' questions.

[Mike38]

[Name:] Mike38
[Country:] France
[City:] Grenoble
[Occupation:] IT engineer
[Hobbies:] Computers, Games, music, RC Model, Home cinema
[Choise for domoticz:] to control My home, and free and works fine

[My role here?] Support, read, learn
[Equipment:] RFXCOM, Raspberry pi, chacon, oregon scientific

[chloegeek]

[Name:] Chloe
[Country:] United Kingdom
[City:] Gloucester
[Occupation:] Robotics student
[Hobbies:] Robotics, home automation, 3D modeling, electronics, programming, games, movies etc.
[Choice for domoticz:]
Wanted a free and open source home automation software.
I chose domoticz because of the active comunity, fast update and development cycle, and decent interface.
[My role here?] I would love to help others out as I go along. I also like to design and build hardware. I would love to share some guides and such on what I build so others may enjoy it too.

[Bruce]

[Name:] Bruce
[Country:] The Netherlands
[City:] Utrecht
[Occupation:] Consumer Electronics Mechanic
[Hobbies:] Gadgets, cars and modifiying things.
[Choice for domoticz:] open source and customizable.
[My role here?] hoping to get info where needed and provide info where i can.

[gerlo]

[Name:] Gerlo
[Country:] The Netherlands
[City:] Apeldoorn
[Occupation:] Software achitect-developer
[Hobbies:] Music (saxophone player), domotica, electronics
[Choise for domoticz:]
After buying some X10 stuff and using cm15Pro and software, i thouhgt, this should be better. Triggered by the raspberry i came to domoticz
[My role here?] just give comments and ask questions Also supporting the project with little software contributions/suggestions if possible.
[hardware:] Rapberry Pi, rfxcom433, cm15pro, some x10 switches and remotes, kaku switches and remotes, x10 security system with pir's and doorsensors. Belkin ip camera. Cresta dtx500 weather station (not supported yet)

[dhanjel]

[Name:] Daniel
[Country:] Sweden
[Occupation:] Software developer, IT Consultant
[Hobbies:] Gadgets, movies, development
[Choise for domoticz:]
Been using Fibaro Home Center 2 for a year, grew tired of feature promises that never happened and looked into the open source world.
Tried OpenHab at first, but was to un-intuitive with all configuration file editing. Still waiting for my z-wave stick but Domoticz is up and
running and working nicely.

[Striker51]

hi,

[Name:] Fabrice
[Country:] France
[Occupation:] IT at a Telecom Provider
[Hobbies:] Music (piano), Racing (Lancia Beta MonteCarlo), Domotic
[Choise for domoticz:] OpenSource, Great activity, Run on Raspberry
[My role here?] Sharing Knowledge, translating to french if needed, ...