Introduce yourself

[keverjeroen]

[Name:] Jeroen
[Country:] The Netherlands
[City:] Somewhere
[Occupation:] IT infrastructure managing
[Hobbies:] Old Volkswagens (Bug, bus, etc), computers, games, gadgets, my 2 year old daughter.
[Choise for domoticz:] New appartement, bought a Roomba and now I want everything automated! :p Domoticz is free, is getting better everyday, there is a great group of people behind it and requests/questions are heard!
[My role here?] Help where I can. I am absolutely no programmer, but I can do feature requests, tests, translate (Dutch/English), Wiki editing, etc.

[leonardo]

[Name:] Leonardo
[Country:] Italy (not my fault)
[City:] Somewhere on the North
[Occupation:] IT Security specialist
[Hobbies:] Martial arts
[Choise for domoticz:] it's great, useful and versatile!
[My equipment] I use it with a RPI and RFXcom transceiver, COCO Technology and Oregon Scientific devices, some O2 Jogglers (I use them with "multibutton" developed with a friend, it works on a standard Linux OS and fits great on a O2 Joggler, you can use it to create pages with button and assign commands to each button and drive Domoticz with a touch panel)
[My role here?] Bash/Perl/generic scripting, italian translation, whatever

[tjoep]

[Name:] Coen
[Country:] The Netherlands
[City:] Harmelen
[Occupation:] IT Proces specialist
[Hobbies:] gadgets, old VW's, motorbikes, bicycling, kickboxing and domotica
[Choise for domoticz:]
Real goodlooking interface, very active developing enz.
[My role here?] Learning (a lot)

[Petitpatapouf]

Name:] Martin
[Country:] France
[City:] Somewhere in the east
[Occupation:] Master editor
[Hobbies:] mountain bike, computer (OSX & Raspberry), comics, cinema ...
[Choise for domoticz:] Easy to use, easy to install and highly scalable
[My role here?] None

[Stephenmelody]

[Name:] Steve
[Country:] UK
[City:] Nottingham
[Occupation:] IT Director
[Hobbies:] All things electronic
[Chose Domoticz because:] Fed up of Lightwaverf's homehub, wanted to expand my system to other technologies
[My role here:] Annoying Rob with daft feature requests.
[Equipment:] 4 x Raspberry Pi, 1 x RFXtrx433, 18 x LightwaveRF switches (various sorts), 3 x Lightwarerf PIRs, 5 x TFA 30.3125, 1 x OWL CM160, Weather Underground.

[simonrg]

[Name:] Simon
[Country:] UK
[City:] Middlesbrough
[Occupation:] Research Scientist
[Hobbies:] Walking, running, early adopting, adapting
[Why I Chose Domoticz:] Looking for a simple system which could integrate a number of technologies together, was open source and able to be extended. Having started using Domoticz a few months ago, and thought I would be able to do some of the things I want to, the rate of development is such that I now think I will be able to do everthying and a lot more, thanks.
[My role here:] Not quite sure, but keen to get all my bits of technology to work with Domoticz either myself in which case I will share my experiences or by suggesting that others have a go.
[My equipment:] Raspberry Pi's, RFXCOM 433, LightwaveRF Hub, house of Lightwave RF switches / sockets / relays, Velux io-Homecontrol (think I will have to connect an io-Homecontrol controller to a Raspberry Pi to control these, as I believe the protocol is not accessible to RFXCOM - I'll let you know if / when I do), Owl Energy meter (monitoring solar, geothermal and household electrics), LaCrosse temperature sensors, Weather Underground and looking for a weather system to add in.

[hemmelot]

[Name:] Henk
[Country:] The Netherlands
[City:] Groningen
[Occupation:] Technical Support
[Hobbies:] Computers, gadgets, movies
[Choise for domoticz:] I wanted to have my lights automated and a nice weatherstation, after searching i decided that this was the way to go, freedom to mix a lot of systems together
[My role here?] Help where I can, learning

[Keptenkurk]

[Name:] Paul
[Country:] The Netherlands
[City:] Waalre
[Occupation:] ICT & Healthcare product management
[Hobbies:] Computers, Automation, Ham Radio (PA3DSB)
[Choise for domoticz:] Good looking, have lots of KAKU running, using TPC-300 which lacks receiving capability, runs on Raspberry
[My role here?] Testing, playing, see what other people integrate, ideas, help wherever possible
[Experience so far:] Took 0,5hr to get Pi+Rfxcom from unpacking to first scene to play. I'm deeply impressed!

[sgallou]

[Name:] Sébastien Gallou
[Country:] France
[City:] Romans-sur-Isère
[Occupation:] Industrial software developer
[Hobbies:] Paragliding, models, software development, domotic.
[Choise for domoticz:] I was looking for a domotic software simple, expandable, run-able on my Rpi, for which I can help
[My role here?] In the first time, I whish to help improve 1-wire support

[lgm42]

[Name:] Nicolas HILAIRE
[Country:] France
[City:] Beaumont les Valence
[Occupation:] Industrial software ingeneer
[Hobbies:] robotics, diy, software development, domotic
[Choise for domoticz:] I was looking for a domotic software simple, expandable, run-able on my Rpi, for which I can help
[My role here?] make some proposal to developp new features and why not code some of them ?

[l0gic]

[Name:] Kevin
[Country:] UK
[City:] Southend
[Occupation:] IT Consultant
[Hobbies:] Home Automation, Watching Films, Biking
[Why I Chose Domoticz:] Looking for a replacement for my Lightwave WiFi hub (too restrictive). Recommended by a friend.
[My role here:] To learn, to share.
[My equipment:] Weather System, Solar PV, Solar Water, CCTV, Various Servers, Raspberry Pi, RFXCOM 433, LightwaveRF Hub, multiple Lightwave RF components.

[stewie2k]

Hi Guys,

Stuart from Scotland, UK working in IT and keen at Home automation. Found this software when i found the RFXcom device and loved it since

[BigDog]

[Name:] Bob
[Country:] The Netherlands
[City:] The Hague
[Occupation:] Technical inspector Electrical installations (NEN3140 / NEN1010)
[Hobbies:] Computers,Gadgets (domotica), series, movies.
[Choice for domoticz:]
started to domotica my house from the light switch to the Central heating and ventilation the more the better
and afcourse i want a system that is easy to use and compact-able with a lot of components
with a special eye to KWH monitoring
[My role here?] learning and hope to share and contribute to the community
[My equipment]
Server : Raspberry/RFXCOM433/Razzberry
Switches : KAKU switches Cresta temperature sensors, and building/buying more
connect in future:Zwave and camera's and hope to connect more like my KWH meter to look @ the costs
and i want the sleeping energy gone in my house to reduce costs

[elythomaslumber]

[Name:] Hartmut (Hardy)
[Country:] Germany
[City:] Solingen
[Occupation:] Test and Project manager working for a telecommunication network provider (mobile & fixed)
[Hobbies:] Gadgets, ATMEGA BASCOM programming, home-automation, XBMC, model railway (US), model heli, Formula 1, cars, traveling
[Chose Domoticz because:] Looking for something that was under evelopment and open source and I'm happy to deliver new ideas. Learning about Linux, Bash scripting, a little bit PERL and Phyton. DOmoticz is compatible to INTERTECHNO devices and supports my iPhone.
[My role here:] Asking and answering questions. Delivering new ideas.
[Equipment:] 2 x Raspberry Pi (Master & Slave), RFXCOM433, most stuff from INTERTECHNO

[martijnvdijk]

Name: Martijn
Country: The Netherlands
City: Zwijndrecht
Occupation: change manager /"architect" for a very large 24/7 measurement network in the Netherlands
Here is a link of a client app of the measurement network http://www.rws.nl/geotool/waterhoogte_t ... eload=true
Hobbies: Paragliding, photography, Archery, Electronics / gizmos
Choise for domoticz: I have bought a brand new house and wanted a nice weather station (bringing my work to home )and a little domotica.
My role here? I like to help where I can with suggestions, test software, GUI and software designing, security, best practices for measurement networks.

[Peter112]

Name: Peter
Country: The Netherlands
City: Uithuizen
Occupation: Service Engineer Industriële Automatisering/Elektro

Hobbys: Gardening, Electronics,Fittness, And tada Domotica

I have a lot of Kaku for many years, the last years i have tried a few domotica solutions none does have all the things i needed.
I wanted to change to zipato, but the last weeks it seems to be a mess @zipato, and second i do not like the cloud solution for my domotica.

So i will move to domoticz, first on my low power XP pc to learn, after this is will delete my Pi setup and domoticz move/install to the Pi.

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WindowsXp, Pi,Panasonic Ipcam,Synology,S7-PLC

[camillo777]

[Name:] Camillo
[Country:] Italy
[City:] Milan
[Occupation:] Solution Architect & Software Developer for a broadcast & media company
[Hobbies:] Music, Software Development, Digital Media
[Chose Domoticz because:] Looking for something working out of the box, flexible and open source, not based on Java
[My role here:] Willing to help build something open and flexible also to use in my house.
[Equipment:] 1 RaspberryPi for XBMC, 1 RaspberryPi for testing new things and development, 1 BeagleBone Black, 1 Arduino Due to play with wireless sensors, 1 QNAP NAS.

[sebas]

[Name:] Sebastiaan
[Country:] The Netherlands
[City:] Deventer
[Occupation:] Product manager and startup founder
[Hobbies:] Among others: scuba diving, photography and technology
[Choise for domoticz:] Supports different technologies (z-wave + RF), open api, no heavy upfront investment needed to get started
[My role here?] Help where I can, learning about domotica and developing a Android app.

[Cent]

[Name:] Vincent
[Country:] The Netherlands
[City:] Breda
[Occupation:] R&D director
[Hobbies:] Technology, hockey, running
[Chose Domoticz because:] Runs under Linux, open source, active community, supports my hardware
[My role here:] User, just started with Domoticz in October 2013, but had alreday some X10 and other equipment in the house for a couple of years
[Equipment:] Raspberry Pi + RFXtrx433, 5x X10 in-wall dimmers for lighting, 6x Philips SBC AC-plugin switches + remote, 3x Impuls AC-plugin switches + remote, Marmitek EasyTouch 35 remote, 2x Oregon Scientific THR128 temperature sensors.
[Experience so far:] Took less than an hour to get Raspberry Pi + RFXtrx433 up and running.

[PeterV]

[Name:] Piet
[Country:] The Netherlands
[City:] Venray
[Occupation:] Retired electronic/software engineer/ IT project manager
[Hobbies:] Computer programming, DSP programming, C,C++, various assemblers
[Choise for domoticz:] a possible candidate to get my 'unacceptable cloud driven' Zipabox out for alarm functionality.
[My role here:] Pending direction taken
[Equipment:] 1 x Raspberry Pi, Z-wave sensors, switches, Zipabox