Recent content by soitjes

I’m very proud to announce the availability of release 2.1.3.0 of my Digital Home Server. New is the multi-room audio feature, allowing to manage audio streams to multiple rooms. Sending audio to multiple rooms has a few specific challenges. Imagine that you walk through your house, and...

I'm using the RFXLAN (www.rfxcom.com) with xPL firmware, which supports several devices. My application itself only knows xPL, so I've also written a few xPL gateways myself (most notably Plugwise and soon ELV Max!). In the meantime I bought a Raspberry and Razberry (Zwave daughter board) so...

I just released version 2.1.2.0 containing the Video Surveillance module. Actually a request from my wife so that we could keep an eye on our little boy when he's sleeping, and I would like to use this to show who's at the door when the doorbell rings. The module has the following features ...

It’s been a while since I posted an update for my application. But I just released a major update for my Digital Home Server. Until now, a lot of focus was on multimedia applications, but now I released a set of modules that allows to automate your home. So you can manage your devices, create...

Release 2.0.7.0 is now available. It took me a lot of time, and development was interrupted several times for other things, but I finally was able to release my “Scanning and Archiving” module. I developed a solution that would allow me to scan all documents that come in by post...

Release 2.0.6.5 is now available. New is the "Notify My Android" module, which allows you to send free notifications to your Android smartphone. You can set up multiple accounts or share accounts between smartphones (so that all smartphones get the same message), and sent messages are...

Multimedia and home automation are hobbies of mine, and for two years I've been working on my own application called the Digital Home Server. The software is freely available on http://www.digitalhomeserver.net and I stress the fact that it contains no spyware, ads, nag screens or whatever...