The core architecture of HouseAgent is build around a messaging system known as RabbitMQ. This worked out fine so far, however during development we discovered a major drawback of RabbitMQ. RabbitMQ...

I didn't have a lot of time for blogging lately but here's just a quick tip (I am currently working hard on HouseAgent behind the scenes!) Sometimes it's handy to disable the ESXi host firewall for...

Following up on yesterday's post, here are the instructions to install HouseAgent on Linux. I took one of the most popular Linux distribution's (Ubuntu) for this blog post, but it should be easy to...

It has been two weeks ago since I released the first (private) beta version of HouseAgent. A handful of people starting testing and playing with it, and I noticed that documentation and instructions...

Yesterday's post introduced HouseAgent. In today's post we will dive deeper into HouseAgent plug-ins and their architecture. HouseAgent plug-ins can be programmed in any language, but Python is by...

HouseAgent is a multi platform, open source home automation application. That was the short introduction of something I have been working on for quite some months already. HouseAgent has been...