Kai Kreuzer

Please note that my blog has moved to a new location: www.kaikreuzer.de So if you want to learn about smart home stuff at EclipseCon France , the new openHAB Foundation , the openHAB 2.0 bet...

http://kaikreuzer.blogspot.com/2016/05/my-blog-has-moved.html

I had the honor to participate in a workshop on IoT Semantic Interoperability (IOTSI) organized by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and hosted by Ericsson in Santa Clara. There is no dou...

http://kaikreuzer.blogspot.com/2016/03/semantic-interoperability-in-internet.html

What a great start to the year 2016 - new openHAB releases are available! Although it is too late for you to play with it during the holiday season, we have used the past weeks intensively to ge...

http://kaikreuzer.blogspot.com/2016/01/openhab-18-and-20-beta1-release.html

Today I have some great news to share - I am sure this will make openHAB attractive to even more users than ever before! MY.OPENHAB GOES PUBLIC! Having offered the cloud companion service f...

http://kaikreuzer.blogspot.com/2015/07/integrating-myopenhab-with-ifttt.html

The openHAB community is growing rapidly and so does the rate of contributions - it is therefore definitely time for a new release! We have reached a new all-time record with a total of 160 add...

http://kaikreuzer.blogspot.com/2015/05/openhab-17-and-20-alpha-2-release.html

I just returned from two interesting days at the Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble. The main reason for my visit were the Eclipse IoT Days , organized for the second time by the university....

http://kaikreuzer.blogspot.com/2015/04/recap-of-eclipse-iot-days-grenoble.html

We have reached another milestone – openHAB 1.6 has been released! As usual, it brings a couple of new bindings and other add-ons. Just to name a few: There is now support for Belkin WeMo swi...

http://kaikreuzer.blogspot.com/2014/11/openhab-16-and-20-alpha-release.html

When talking about the Internet of Things (IoT), you quickly get into the discussion about device abstraction. As a software engineer, it is natural that you want to represent a physical switch ...

http://kaikreuzer.blogspot.com/2014/11/about-pitfalls-of-device-abstractions.html

JAVAONE AND THE VALLEY Having spent a few days in the Silicon Valley, I feel it is time to share some experiences. The main reason for the my trip was the talk about Smart Homes for the Masses...

http://kaikreuzer.blogspot.com/2014/10/openhab-and-eclipse-smarthome-news-flash.html

You might have heard about the Forget Me Not Design Challenge that has been organised by element14 . There were brilliant submissions and the participants for the challenge have been chosen end...

http://kaikreuzer.blogspot.com/2014/08/forget-me-not-with-openhab-and-enocean.html

THERE WE HAVE IT. Already one day before Google I/O starts, the Google approach to a smart home ecosystem has been published . So just a few days after Apple's announcement of HomeKit , we devel...

http://kaikreuzer.blogspot.com/2014/06/open-source-as-best-alternative.html

As I am regularly asked how the projects openHAB and Eclipse SmartHome relate to each other, so I would like to take a chance to provide background information on this topic. Since its incep...

http://kaikreuzer.blogspot.com/2014/06/openhab-20-and-eclipse-smarthome.html

Another 4 months have passed since the openHAB 1.4 release and we are happy to announce the release of version 1.5! This is in any respect a very special release - I am proud to say that the ...

http://kaikreuzer.blogspot.com/2014/06/openhab-15-release-highlights.html

Classical home automation used to be easy: You installed your devices at home (or probably rather had them installed by an electrician), wired things up and started using it at home. But then ca...

http://kaikreuzer.blogspot.com/2014/02/privacy-in-smart-home-why-we-need.html

The JavaOne conference in San Francisco is over - it was my first JavaOne and I enjoyed it a lot. Not necessarily because of the sessions, but because of the venue and all the gifted people that...

http://kaikreuzer.blogspot.com/2013/09/leaping-edge-home-automation-at-javaone.html

It is really incredible how the amount of contributions to openHAB increases: Up to our last release in April, we had a new binding about every two weeks. With the current release 1.3, we are a...

http://kaikreuzer.blogspot.com/2013/09/openhab-13-release-highlights.html

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the big hypes at the moment - and as usual with such a buzzword, it does not mean much at all (or rather it means something different, depending on who you...

http://kaikreuzer.blogspot.com/2013/05/eclipse-technologies-for-internet-of.html

Only 8 months after our 1.0 release we have reached release 1.2 - what sounds like an unimportant change in the version, mean in reality that openHAB has now spread out to many areas of home au...

http://kaikreuzer.blogspot.com/2013/04/openhab-12-release-highlights.html

Although I keep talking to people about why OSGi is a great technology to do software development especially for modular systems, I today do not want to delve into technical details such as OSGi...

http://kaikreuzer.blogspot.com/2012/12/osgi-connects-world.html

OPENHAB 1.0 - HOME AUTOMATION FOR GEEKS After 2.5 years of development, openHAB 1.0 has just been released – a big thanks to everybody involved! What comes to your mind when you hear ...

http://kaikreuzer.blogspot.com/2012/08/openhab-1.html

Half a year ago I sketched my ideas for a new rule engine for the open Home Automation Bus (openHAB) . I had presented an initial version at EclipseCon Europe 2011 and it is by now used by mo...

http://kaikreuzer.blogspot.com/2012/05/xtext-xbase-quartz-joda-time-perfect.html

To continue the "Not your father's" series (see Sven's blog and Marcel's blog ) you can imagine that if even Java and IDEs have evolved over the years, the way that people want to use and oper...

http://kaikreuzer.blogspot.com/2011/10/this-is-not-your-fathers-house.html

Up to now openHAB has embedded JBoss Drools as a rule engine for automation rules. Although Drools is very powerful, this solution also has a few problems: The Drools IDE is not completely wo...

http://kaikreuzer.blogspot.com/2011/09/using-xbase-for-home-automation-rules.html

Working on the build and the packaging of openHAB , I had to undergo quite some efforts to get it done with Maven3/Tycho. My special challenge was to package a product which is p2-enabled AND�...

http://kaikreuzer.blogspot.com/2010/12/building-p2-enabled-products-with-tycho.html

As promised during my talks at the Eclipse Summit Europe and the OSGi Users' Forum Germany , I have finally fully automated the build of openHAB with Maven3/Tycho and uploaded the result to the ...

http://kaikreuzer.blogspot.com/2010/11/binary-builds-for-openhab-available.html