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diff --git a/tex/context/base/mkiv/mtx-context-domotica.tex b/tex/context/base/mkiv/mtx-context-domotica.tex index 62e6e8786..83562ee30 100644 --- a/tex/context/base/mkiv/mtx-context-domotica.tex +++ b/tex/context/base/mkiv/mtx-context-domotica.tex @@ -33,6 +33,36 @@ % % end help +%D In case one wonders what domotica has to do with ConTeXt, here is the short +%D story. One day I'll wrap up a long one. +%D +%D After years of keeping an eye on developments and techniques and being somewhat +%D disappointed by experiments, I decided to settle on a local approach for simple +%D domotica (criteria are: stability, full open source, decent scripting, future +%D safe). Eventually I decides to buy a few (overpriced) hue zigbee hubs: one +%D private and one for the office, so that I could create different lightning +%D setups, automatically control light to be turned on and off, etc. Unfortunately +%D those hubs are rather limited in functionality and performance, which is +%D surprising for an otherwise mature product. So (we're speaking mid 2015) I wrote +%D a couple of scripts in \LUA\ that would do the real magic, and only use the hub +%D for controlling the individual lights, buttons and sensors. That way I could +%D create complex arrangements (think of setups for working, reading, talking, +%D either of not in parts or rooms) driven by the available buttons and motion +%D sensors. I really needed multiple sensors and buttons per room, something (again +%D surprisingly) not supported by the hub at that time. It seems that more than a +%D year later functionality that I needed and wrote gets added stepwise to the hub: +%D multiple sensors, multiple use of buttons, etc. Compared to free \TEX\ +%D developments such commercial products evolve slow. +%D +%D In addition to these hubs I bought some zwave devices for controlling heating and +%D a few rf radio things for sunshades. For zwave I uses the same approach: buy a +%D decent hub (the nice popp hub) and control it via \LUA. In fact, I can now use +%D one set of scripts to control a mix of technologies. However, when programming +%D the lot, one needs to have an overview of devices and that is where this module +%D comes into view. In fact, \LUATEX\ was already in view as I wrote the scripts in +%D \LUA, using the \CONTEXT\ helper libraries. And the lots runs on a small low +%D power (<10W) fitlet using stock \LUATEX\ as \LUA\ engine. + % --pattern="e:/domotica/open-zwave/open-zwave-master/config/**.xml" \input mtx-context-common.tex |