Home Automation

With JavaScript

Who am I?

• Father of 1 with another on the way
• 7+ Years Professional WebDev
• Lead Developer at Weave
• NodeJS Fanboy
• API all the things!
• Loving AngularJS

Why Home Automation

Why Home Automation

• Security
  
• Convenience
• Efficiency
• Awesome

How Long Have We Wanted This...

1966 - ECHO IV 

1968 - HAL 

Jim Sutherland

What Is Taking So Long?!

"Despite interest in home automation, by the end of the 

1990s there was not a widespread uptake - with such 

systems still considered the domain of hobbyists or 

the rich. The lack of a single, simplified, protocol and 

high cost of entry has put off consumers."

The lack of a single, simplified, protocol...

X10

INSTEON

Z-Wave

ZigBee

EnOcean

UPB

Dash7

...high cost of entry has put off consumers

 "In the early 1990s, the consumer market was divided into
two main categories, the ultra-high-end with a budget
at US$100,000 and the mass market with budgets
at US$2,000 to US$35,000."

"Times they are a changin'"

New System Options

The Big Boys Are Coming

• AT&T (Digital Life)
  
• Comcast (XFINITY Home)
• Microsoft Acquires R2 for XBOX
• Google (Android@Home)???

Rising Local Stars

• Vivint
  
• Pinnacle (Protection One)

WE WANT

But we don't want commercial "clouds"

OPEN SOURCE

We want DIY

$$$

A Basic Setup in 2013

• 3 Light Switches - $135
  
• Lock - $175
• Thermostat - $80

Controller

Devices

• Zwave Stick - $47
  
• Raspberry Pi - $35
• 4 Gig SD Card - $10
• Pi Case & Cord - $20

But what about software?

Current Solutions?

• py-openzwave
  
• Domotic Home
• and more...

Which Protocol?

• Zwave
• ZigBee
• Insteon

• OSA
  
• OpenZwave
• OpenRemote
• FreeDomotic
• MisterHouse
• OpenAMI
• OpenHAB

JavaScript?

That's nuts... or is it...

• Event Driven
• Asynchronous
  
• Popular
• Easy (for async)
• Awesome Community

node-zwave

Currently under development

(demo)

node-serialport is the key

“Do one thing, and do it well"

Where do we go from here?

Follow my home automation blog:
http://adomotic.com

Like hex? Contribute to node-zwave:
https://github.com/adomotic/node-zwave