Volunteer for new plugin development

[dberenguer]

Hi community!

I'm the founder of an open hardware (wireless) project called panStamp. We are trying to promote the integration with existing open HA software and for this we are providing free hardware kits to any developer interested in working on a plugin for Domoticz. This kit usually includes wireless sensors, relay board, USB interface and RGB strip driver but of course we can add more items if necessary.

At this moment three libraries are available (Python, Java and Perl) but none of them is compatible with C++. This means that porting the library to C++ should be necessary before developing the plugin. Anyone interested please contact me via PM, e-mail or simply by responding in this post.

Thanks for your time and congratulation to the Domoticz team!

Daniel.

[gizmocuz]

Hello Daniel,

Thank you for the offer.

It looks like MySensors ?

At the moment we are building more support for the mysensors system, using the NRF24L01

[dberenguer]

Thanks @guizmocuz,

panStamp relies on its own protocol, called SWAP. It's quite simple except for the fact that all the relevant information about devices is stored in static XML files. This makes the protocol lightweight on the network side but involves doing some more complex stuff by the host computer. On the other hand, this approach lets applications recognize new developments as far as new XML files are uploaded onto the central repository.

Regards,

Daniel.

[maluko]

Cool, more compatible stuff are welcome.

[dberenguer]

Cool, more compatible stuff are welcome.

We are in fact working on new hardware like a battery-powered CO2 meter and also a battery-powered current reader. I also forgot to say that panStamp is programmable from the Arduino IDE.

Regards,

Daniel.

[BigDog]

is it also usable for peoples with little programming skills?

[dberenguer]

is it also usable for peoples with little programming skills?

Yes. We provide sample applications for temperature, humidity or pressure measurement and also for relay and RGB strip control so you have only to install the Arduino IDE, patch the IDE with our cores/libraries, program the module through a panStick and finally power the module. Lots of users from the fhem community are doing this and we hope that users from the Domoticz and OpenHAB communities will be able to do it soon.

[gizmocuz]

is it also usable for peoples with little programming skills?

please do not implement it with scripts etc... but as a native c++ hardware device

[dberenguer]

I just wanted to give you an update about this project. We finally implemented MQTT on our lightweight lagarto gateway in order to provide integration with domoticz and with any other automation software:

Link to the blog post

This way our low-power wireless devices can interact with a huge amount of M2M platforms without having to create a specific plugin for each one.

Thanks guys for your support!