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Premiers pas dans la Domotique

L’hiver approche à grand pas, et la température intérieure diminue un peu plus tous les jours. Il faudra bientôt allumer le chauffage ! L’appartement est grand avec de beaux volumes comme ils disent dans les agences immobilière. En gros ça veux dire appartement très difficile a chauffer. Bien sur l’installation est électrique. Mais l’avantage c’est que les propriétaires ont mis des chauffages électriques radial. N’y a t’il pas un moyen de contrôler ces chauffages ? De ne pas revivre le froid saisissant des l’appartement quand on rentre le soir du travail ? Faire en sorte que ces chauffages maintiennent une température agréable quand on est la, et faire en sorte que la température ne redescende pas en dessous de 15° pendant la journée et la nuit. Rien de plus désagréable que de déjeuner dans une pièce le matin ou il fait froid.

A chaque fois que je tourne la molette de réglage du chauffage, il y a un petit détail qui attire mon oeil. Un pictogramme ressemblant a une horloge. A quoi ca peut bien servir ?

Molette de réglage

Enna Compilation on Ubuntu

As neither eina nor EFL are released, you must compile them. They are Ubuntu packages for EFL but they are old, and API have changed. If you use them, compilation should failed. It’s better to compile all libraries with your little fingers 🙂
The result :

Enna Main Menu

Hosted by WordPress

Hi folks,
Long time elapsed since my last post, the main reason is that digital-corner is no longer hosted by AMEN. They were too expensive. So I decided to keep them as registrar, but this blog is now hosted by WordPress.
I must say that I’m very happy with services that wordpress provides. The blog interface is really easy too use. And the setup take only few minutes.
I discover that wordpress hosted blogs, after reading Ben and Mat’s blogs. They are blogging about GeexBox and Enna, you should read their blogs if you want to have some infos about Enna and GeexBox development progress.

Enna Development process

They are a lot of changes in Enna development process.

2 month ago Ben have imported Enna svn in Geexbox Mercurial repository. Mercurial is a distributed revision control sofware, exactly like Git. So since Mon, 18 Aug 2008, enna development take place in the official GeexBox repository.

Why ?

First, as geexbox deveveloppers are the main contributors to enna source code, it’s simplier to have development in their repository.The second reaseaon, is that i’m very excited to see enna integrated into next version of Geexbox (2.0). So hosted RCS enna in gb repository take sense and development is faster. The third reason, is that enna is always hosted in the SVN Enlightenment repository, so old Sourceforge SVN is now deprecated.

We add new feature in mercurial. And when a feature is complete, I synchronize Mercurial with Enlightenment SVN.

So how to do to retrieve source code ?

Geexbox Mercurial repository :

If you want to test the last code, it means that sometimes compilation may be broken you can retrieve the mercurial version :

hg clone http://hg.geexbox.org/enna

And if you want update
hg pull -u
Enlightenment SVN repository :
If you want a version that is more stable (but always in development) you can retrieve Enlightenment SVN trunk :
svn co http://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/trunk/MISC/enna
And if you want update :
svn up
	

Migration de digital-corner.org

Depuis une semaine maitenant, http://www.digital-corner.org a changé de place. Il ya 3 ans, lorsque je me suis lancé dans l’écriture de Enna, j’ai acheté ce nom de domaine avec un pack 50Mo, une base mysql et un Php préinstallé. A l’époque je me demandai ce que j’allais bien pouvoir faire de ces 50Mo. Mais apres avoir installé plusieurs CMS (joomla, modx et maintenant drupal) et avoir perdu les droits d’écriture sur certains fichier, les 50Mo ne suffisaient plus. Depuis une semaine digital-corner a donc changé de serveur toujours chez Amen, avec 5Go 5 base mysql et plein d’autre bonus dont je ne me servirais surement pas.

Cette migration m’a permit de fignoler la config Drupal, d’ajouter une authentification reCaptcha sur les commentaires qui ne fonctionnait pas sur l’ancien serveur, ne me demandai pas pourquoi, certainement encore une fois les droits d’écriture perdu sur un fichier ….
Je vais essayer dans les jours futur d’amliorer le theme du site, pour qu’il soit plus personalisé et plus proche de l’esprit de Enna. J’ajouterai également une section maemo/N810 pour que les personnes qui le souhaitent puisse tester le nouveau Enna sur leur N8x0.

Road to Enna NextGen

For Two month, I’m writing new version of Enna. As you can see In my previous post, this version run on Maemo. But the main goal is always to write a complete Media Center arround EFL libs for PC. You can found this new version here :

svn co https://enna.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/enna/trunk/ng/enna enna
and as usual :
cd enna && ./autogen.sh && make && make install

At the moment you should be able to play music file if you have backend compiled and installed. The first backend you can use is emotion. But this weekend GeeXBox Guys added new backend based on libplayer. Thanks Ben to have added this new feature. Development go fast, and I hope to release an alpha version soon with few features : Only Music and Video playback. Development of new modules is fast (Only 1 hour to write libplayer backend for example) and new plugins should come soon.
I tought to write squeezecenter plugin, to control this network player with enna.
And if i have time, I will provide deb packages for maemo.

More comming soon 🙂

Enna on maemo

I have’nt blogged for a long time, but today I have an exciting news. Enna works on N810. So for the moment it’s a bit quick and dirty, I have to polish packages, and enna have not a lot of functions yet, but as you can see in this video, EFL are very awesome. They are really really fast. A big thanks to all guys that have speed this amazing libs. You have done a really good job !

You can download this litle video here : Format Mpeg4/ACC 58secondes 4.4Mo
Or the youtube version :

More coming soon …

Mockups

I work hard on the next version of enna. I have review a lot of old old, corrected it and now I’m working on the future theme. People don’t like the previous brown version, so I decided to have a new theme more actual. Following, mockups I’m working on. I’m not completly happy with this mockups, and new version is in preparation. I think that to have a darker background, and saturated colors for selected parts could be really beautifull.

Enna Mockup 1

Enna Mockup 2

I have design mockups for N810 too, and I would like have this kind of think on this beautifull device.

Enna maemo mockup 1

Enna maemo mockup 1

Hope you like them 🙂
Work is in progress to integrate these artworks in Enna code !

Evas Reflection #2

I played a little bit more with evas and reflection. In my last post I proposed a way to add reflection with Evas. But this code was false.

Correct code have been added to enna, and you can view the result here :

Evas Reflection

• First you need to add alpha layer, to enable premultiplication. It’s done when you load an image like png with alpha or if you add directly this alpha layer with : evas_object_image_alpha_set (Evas_Object *obj, Evas_Bool has_alpha)
• When I copy pixess, I have add a bug. The pixels indexes were false when I flip the image. I have correct this in the new code.

To be integrated in Enna, I have write a Evas_Smart Object, here is the code :
http://enlightenment.org/viewvc/misc/enna/src/bin/enna_reflection.c?revi…