02-09-2016, 07:44 AM | #1 |
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Kobo as home automation display
Hi,
I thought I would share what I have done in terms of using my kobo touch as the dispay interface to my home automation system [www.openhab.com]. I hacked the Kobo with Marek's debian image and used python and qt quick as the language and ui frameworks respectively. The Kobo gets data from openhab via REST and display some of the data available. It also has buttons that can be pressed to switch on bedlights, etc linked to my home automation system. Im displaying the following information retrieved from openhab: - alarm state and open windows and doors - sunrise and sunset times - time and date - electricity units left in the meter - Energy power - total, fridges, geyser, pool, irrigation. - chance of rain, current temperature [from sensors in the house] - forecast temperature for today - wind today - weekly weather forecast - state of my bedlight and electric blanket as button which can switch them on/off as well. Ive added the app called QOK [Qt on Kobo - how original!! ] to the awesome menu. Ive also added UsbNet to the menu, although I use wifi at home. I framed it also using my unused dremel for the waf. Now my next project is to do boat automation using the kobo display in full sun with the intention to use phonegap apps on the android image of kobo. Here are the pictures: Last edited by issybird; 02-11-2016 at 06:45 PM. Reason: Oversize images deleted. |
02-11-2016, 05:47 PM | #2 |
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very interesting!
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02-11-2016, 09:28 PM | #3 |
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Very nice!
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02-11-2016, 11:30 PM | #4 |
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That looks cool.
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02-09-2020, 04:13 PM | #5 |
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web site link not working(
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02-09-2020, 05:00 PM | #6 |
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OpenHAB now lives at openhab.org, which won't necessarily help you, as this thread is... more than 4 years old, and I don't see any mention of a link to the Kobo-specific bits anywhere anyways.
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03-25-2022, 02:46 PM | #7 |
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This is the link to Marek's debian image: https://github.com/marek-g/kobo-kern...b/linux/README
QOK can be found here: https://github.com/jasonhector/qok Unfortunately, my Kobo doesn't have a removable SD card. Do you know how I could get it installed? E.g. with adb and fastboot? |
03-28-2022, 05:40 AM | #8 | |
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I looked at the source code for a moment and found that QOK is using Python+ Qt(PySide).
Are there Python + Pyside which can be run on Kobo? Or Built from source code? Quote:
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