Introduce yourself

[MatthijsD]

[Name:] Matthijs
[Country:] The Netherlands
[City:] Dokkum
[Occupation:] Teacher in multimedia/design and freelancer as designer
[Hobbies:] Gadgets, creating/building, design
[Choice for Domoticz:] First logical step into domotica. Already had some KAKU stuff installed in our home
[My role here?] If possible maybe helping with the app. Better setup of my domotica.

[jackwilson123]

Name:Jack Wilson
Country:]United kingdom
City: Truro
Occupation: IT Support
My role here? : Technical support company for Antivirus, Printer, Email and software.

[mount83]

[Name:] Marco
[Country:] Switzerland
[City:] Llugano
[Occupation:] System engineering
[Hobbies:] HAM RADIO
[Choice for Domoticz:] multi platform!
[My role here?] If possible maybe helping on...

[airbus]

Hi guys
[Name:] Cristiano
[Country:] Italy
[City:] Rome
[Occupation:] technicians in airline company
[Hobbies:] Computers, 3d printing, DIY
[My role here?] newbie

[MYLE]

[Name:] MYLE (stephan)
[Country:]New Zealand
[City:]New Plymouth
[Occupation:]IT GUY and goffer (what I get called at work)
[Hobbies:]Computers,coding
[Choice for Domoticz:]
got given a 4u server with 12g ram 1TB Hard Drives
Put Ubuntu on it could I do it
then Sickrage
then CouchPotato
then Utorrent
then MYSQL
got them talking to each other
Build a HTPC with OPENELEC KODI for the 60" LCD
hate windows but it pays the bills
server only run at a about 10% thinking ................. What else could do with this thing
found Domoticz and well Got that setup easy as 20+ years been a Windows man and it just a copy and paste to the command line and it was going well done you guy(s)

My Plan is

join all above into Domoticz
add RF
add IR
add Sonoff's as the Switches
someone gave me some x10 stuff years ago so should try and get then going in Domoticz

Got heaps of ideas for the ESP8266 want add them to Domoticz

Full hard drive so I got a NAS box now have 16tb NAS ( told wife need a place to backup her photo 30,000+ photo last 15 year)
900+ movie 30,000 song 90% name right with there art work

Build jukebox with touch screen. screen from china https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlpmXar0zM4
Build Mame BOX its a 42 LCD like coffee table
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvJubBxDbuQ there are 5 uploads
went to Mitre 10 with plan they cut $90 wood there labour free so thanks Mitre10NZ


and by the way the server it came with a server Rack 1.2m High with a UPS and Switch

ME VERY VERY HAPPY CAMPER HERE

[My role here?]The Guy who will ask HEAPS Question and push it to its MAX and help were I can

[jackwan1]

[Name:] Jack
[Country:] USA
[City:] Hayward
[Occupation:] Retiree playing with home automation
[Hobbies:] Electronics, gadgets and others
[Choice for Domoticz:] Testing different home automation options, including Arduino, UBUNTU, Espeasy, Resp pi etc.
[My role here?] Novice need a lot of help

[darlomrh]

[Name:] Andy
[Country:] UK
[City:] Midlands
[Occupation:] IT Sector was a developer, now read word docs
[Hobbies:] Geek stuff and tinkering
[Choice for Domoticz:] The openness of it. Started with lightwaveRF but moved onto Z-Wave but wanted to use the two on one system. Only regret is I didn't buy the RFXCOM RFXtrx433E sooner!
[My role here?] To help and learn more. "Every days a school day".

[DanielThompson]

[Name:] Thompson
[Country:] United Kingdom
[City:] Kent, Maidstone
[Occupation:] Quality Analyst and writer
[Hobbies:] Gadgets, provide support, blogger
[Choice for Domoticz:] Testing UBUNTU
[My role here?] To learn more.

[kdschlosser]

Name: K
Country: USA
City: Rocky Mountains, CO
Occupation: House Renovator (My House)
Hobbies: Home Automation, Working on my house
Choice for Domoticz: I come form the land of Vera. I am going to post a YouTube video of me smashing the thing. I have finally had enough and have also watched the progression of Domoticz so I decided to make the change (since my Vera bricked again when all i did was login)
My role here? I am currently one of the core and plugin developers for EventGhost (python based) I might be able to bring some python help as well as possibly make some plugins for Domoticz.

[noppes123]

[Name:]Ron
[Country:]Netherlands
[City:]Brielle
[Occupation:]IT Director
[Hobbies:]Electronics, Astronomy
[Choice for Domoticz:]After quick evaluation of Domotics, openHAB and HomeAssistant, I decided to go with Domoticz.
[My role here?]Newbie

[Eddiever]

[Name:]Edwin
[Country:]The Netherlands
[City:]Hoogeveen
[Occupation:]Bankemployee
[Hobbies:]computers
[Choice for Domoticz:]Bought a Sonoff Touch from Ali. Wanted to do with it what I wanted. Googled and came to Domoticz. Still trying to piece things together. Thanks for the help on this forum I am stepping forward in domoticz
[My role here?]learning, I have a lot to catch up. Perhaps in the future I can be a help for other newbee's

[gonzzo]

[Name:] Javier
[Country:] Spain
[City:] Madrid
[Occupation:] Technology
[Hobbies:] Sky,Surf,HW/SW
[Choice for Domoticz:] After several tries with OpenHab I switched to Domoticz. Really happy with the decission
[My role here?] Share experiences & fixes and contribute to new ideas

[elgringo]

[Name:]Eric
[Country:]The Netherlands
[City:]Den Bosch
[Occupation:]Software designer (C/C++/C#)
[Hobbies:]Skydiving, creating useless applications/devices which end up in a box
[Choice for Domoticz:]I like something which is open source to add things of my own, and/or improve it.
[My role here?] Get my questions answer and help out if I can. Finding the actual status of domoticz (regarding to bugs/features)

[sunshine1]

[Name:] sushine
[Country:] Australia
[City:] Melbourne
[Occupation:] Company technician
[Hobbies:] Pcb design,electronic
[Choice for Domoticz:] Hope to learn more and get help
[My role here?] Getting help and trying to help others

[Winjas]

[Name:] Lee
[Country:] England
[City:] (Middle of countryside)
[Occupation:] Electrical Lecturer
[Hobbies:] Computers, electronics and technology
[Choice for domoticz:] Wanted dabble in DIY smart-home, seems perfect, and popular
[My role here?]Learning more and getting help

[cyberbob69]

[Name:]Cyberbob
[Country:]Belgium
[City:]Hainaut
[Occupation:]Employee technician
[Hobbies:]Computing, new technology
[Choice for Domoticz:]Heating management, auxiliary lighting, presence detection, IP cam monitoring, ... And many other projects under study
[My role here?]Learning because many things have to learn, Share my knowledge.

[wolfg1969]

Name: Yong
Country: China
City: Beijing
Occupation: Web Developer
Hobbies: Reading
Choice for Domoticz: open source, powerful functions.
My role here? Learning first. Currently I'm making my own home automation project, trying to gather information of my house eg. temp, hum, air
quality (pm2.5), power/water/gas usage etc., and to control my various devices. I've finished a weather station project with NodeMCU (https://github.com/wolfg1969/nodemcu-weather-station). Also I want to help translating into Chinese.

[djas]

[Name:] Iwan
[Country:] NL
[City:] Amsterdam
[Occupation:] Windows Sys Admin
[Hobbies:] Music, Movies, Soccer
[Choice for Domoticz:] Automate my blinds and expand
[My role here?] The Noob??

[DomoJev]

[Name:] Joost
[Country:] NL
[City:] Almere
[Occupation:] Embedded Software Engineer / CTO
[Hobbies:] Swimming, Golf, MG
[Choice for Domoticz:] Runs on rpi, has mobile support, open source.
[My role here?] Learning, picking up information on COTS sensors & actuators, perhaps put my BLE knowledge to good use one day.

Current projects include pool automation (temperature sensor are in the mail, pump control - still searching for cheap pH and chlorine sensors), extended doorbell (needed when we're in the garden), lights, fans, blinds / curtains, ...

[rveupen]

[Name:] Raymond
[Country:] The Netherlands
[City:] Valkenswaard
[Occupation:] Network Engineer
[Hobbies:] Gadgets, photography, cycling, gaming
[Choice for Domoticz:] First to popup when entering the world of Domotica.
[My role here?] Help if i can. Better understanding of Domoticz.