openHAB the open Home Automation Bus

Control Your Home with OSGi

Kai KreuzerEclipse Summit Europe, November 2-4, 2010, Ludwigsburg

Kai Kreuzer (kai AT openHAB dot org)Eclipse Summit Europe, November 2-4, 2010, Ludwigsburg

About Me

• Senior Software Architect atLausanne, Switzerland

• Eclipse Enthusiast since 2006, Building Eclipse RCP for Model Driven Development

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• Home Automation as a Hobby

• Initiated openHAB.org in 2010

Kai Kreuzer (kai AT openHAB dot org)Eclipse Summit Europe, November 2-4, 2010, Ludwigsburg

Motivation

• Make KNX-based Home a SmartHome

• Integrate Domotics & Home Entertainment Devices in a Vendor-neutral and Hardware-agnostic Way

• Using Misterhouse (Perl-based OS project)

• Goals: Stability, Easy Development & Debugging

• Playground for Latest Java/Eclipse Technologies

Kai Kreuzer (kai AT openHAB dot org)Eclipse Summit Europe, November 2-4, 2010, Ludwigsburg

openHAB.org – Reinventing the Wheel

• GPL, hosted at Google Code (Mercurial DVCS)

Jetty

EMF

XTextDeclarativeServices

EventAdmin

Maven3/Tycho

JBoss Drools

OSGi-based Runtime Eclipse RCP Configuration Tool

Kai Kreuzer (kai AT openHAB dot org)Eclipse Summit Europe, November 2-4, 2010, Ludwigsburg

openHAB Event Bus Concept

KNX Binding

RS-232 Binding

Bluetooth Binding

UPnP Binding

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UPnP

openHAB Event Bus

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openHABItem Registry

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Automation Logic

User Interface

openHAB Console

openHAB Logging

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Stateful Services

Kai Kreuzer (kai AT openHAB dot org)Eclipse Summit Europe, November 2-4, 2010, Ludwigsburg

Live Demo

Kai Kreuzer (kai AT openHAB dot org)Eclipse Summit Europe, November 2-4, 2010, Ludwigsburg

openHAB.org – Outlook

• Binary build by end of November 2010

• RRD4j for charts

• AJAX-support for mobile web app

• Bindings for

• Fritz!Box for call notifications

• Wake-On-LAN

• UPnP

• Media Player (iTunes, VLC, WMP,...)

Questions?