Another year has passed and EclipseCon Europe 2018 took place in Ludwigsburg, Germany - and with it, our second edition of a colocated Smart Home Day.
The Smart Home Day was hosted by the openHAB Foundation with Bosch SI, codecentric and Deutsche Telekom as sponsors.
Just like last year, the day was all about Eclipse SmartHome, its solutions and especially its community. Not only were there again very interesting talks about the internals of Eclipse SmartHome and some of its new features. The audience also learned about cool projects that have been realised with it. The program concluded with a panel discussion about the pros and cons of different build and IDE approaches for the project - giving good insights into Maven, Tycho and Bnd.
As the community is spread over the whole world and not everyone had the chance to come to Ludwigsburg, the Smart Home Day presentations were professionally recorded this year by the CCC Video Operations Center. They did an awesome job and not only provided us high-quality recordings, but also had all of them uploaded and shared a few minutes after the event was over.
The Agenda
The day was packed with content from 10am in the morning until 5pm in the afternoon. All videos are available on a YouTube playlist as well as on media.ccc.de.
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| Welcome and Introduction Kai Kreuzer, President openHAB Foundation |
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| Eclipse IoT: State of the Union Benjamin Cabé, Eclipse IoT Evangelist Eclipse Foundation |
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| Updates from the Core Framework Henning Treu, Eclipse SmartHome Committer |
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| MQTT Integration for Eclipse SmartHome David Graeff, Eclipse SmartHome Contributor |
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| HABot - a Chat Bot for openHAB Yannick Schaus, openHAB Maintainer |
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| Building Automation at codecentric Headquarters - A Look Behind the Scenes Christina Zenzes & Anna Backs, codecentric |
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| SmartHome Cloud: An Open & Extensible Cloud-Native Plattform for Consumer IoT Mehmet Arziman, openHAB Cloud Maintainer |
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| Smartening a Residential Complex. The 2^5 Application! George Erhan, openHAB Community Member |
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| The Eclipse Smart Home Automation Engine – From Open Source to Production Kai Hackbarth, Evangelist, Bosch SI |
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| Eclipse SmartHome & Bndtools Jochen Hiller, Runtime Architect, Deutsche Telekom |
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| Eclipse SmartHome & Plain Old Maven Lukasz Dywicki, Founder Code-House |
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| Panel Discussion - Build Tooling for Eclipse SmartHome Candidate 1: Maven - Advocated by Lukasz Dywicki Candidate 2: Tycho - Advocated by Kai Kreuzer Candidate 3: Bnd - Advocated by BJ Hargrave Moderation: Henning Treu |
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A big thanks to everyone who has attended the event as well as to all the speakers that helped making the day a great success! There was a lot of very positive feedback on the talks and it always makes a very special atmosphere to have so many passionate community members together at one place. While we will try to repeat doing such events in future, everybody should feel encouraged to organise local meet-ups or other types of events around their favorite project - it is absolutely worth the efforts!
You can find pictures of the Smart Home Day on Google Photos:
