Homepage (Blog)
Hello and welcome to my internet pages (blog).
You will find here information from my private LCARS SmartHome
and SmartSensor project and some
little old styled computer Games.
My software
is done and created with the famous developer tool Hollywood.
Hollywood is a light-weight, but still powerful programming language
whose core is just about two megabytes in size and does not require any
external components. Hence, it is ideal for creating programs which run
right out of the box. In fact, Hollywood programs will run perfectly
from a USB flash drive without any prior installation whatsoever.
Furthermore, Hollywood's core functionality can be greatly enhanced
through lots of freely available plugins allowing you to access OpenGL
and SDL through Hollywood, for instance.
The
following platform architectures are currently supported by Hollywood:
AmigaOS 3 (m68k) AmigaOS 4 (ppc) Android (arm)
AROS (x86) iOS (arm) Linux (x86) Linux (x64) Linux (arm) Linux (ppc)
macOS (arm64) macOS (x86) macOS (x64) macOS (ppc) MorphOS (ppc) WarpOS
(m68k/ppc) Windows (x86) Windows (x64)
Surf at your leisure through my pages and download the provided
software to your favorite computer system and OS.
To support my freeware developments, I would appreciate
donations via PayPal forward for financing new projects.
My current main
project is the
SMART HOME Hardware and Software Development
LIVE SnapShot from our SmartHome -
Hindenburgstr. 29 (update every 10 minutes)
LIVE SnapShot from our SmartHome - Johann-Schwarz-Str.6 (update every 10 minutes)
The connected home with its many
possibilities and the control of our daily lives has not yet enforced in
reality,
but it's probably only a matter of time and it is very likely
that the reality our ideas will outstrip.
The idea:
Connect as Startup your MQTT broker, Node-Red, InfluxDB and Grafana (RaspberryPi, WinOS10.
MacOS, Docker on a Synology NAS etc.) with your Hollywood application and your operating
system.
Expand the system step by step with room SensorNodes, actors and AWS
skills to have ALEXA, Amy and Marlene at your side. Upgrade with a
LoRaWan Gateway to be part of a big TTN community and running far away outdoor
systems.
Call sensors, control your lights and actors, appliances, heating, sound
system, TV, Cameras etc. ,
send data to your website and all major IoT Clouds, receive push messages on your phone -
everything is possible.
Build your private, perfect and beautiful smart home
control system maybe in the classic StarTrek LCARS Design.
Thanks to Hollywood Player - you can use all that on OS4 , MorphOS , MacOS,
Android etc.
My private system is constantly being expanded with additional
functions - so read my blog and learn like me !
25.05.2024
M5STACK SensorNode Development
Achim Kern is the software and hardware developer of the famous
and private LCARS HOLLYWOOD CONNECT SmartHome. The M5STACK system fits
perfect in this environment. SensorNodes connected via MQTT or LoRaWan
can be developed very fast. The M5CORE2 MQTT SensorNode uses actually 5
M5Stack sensor units. The measured sensor data (co2, temperature,
humidity, pressure, dust, light and motion, noice coming soon) is
visualized on a very nice designed user interface.
Also we provide a status bar to show if measurement is OK GOOD or BAD.
We send all data to our MQTT Broker in JSON format and to a influxdb for
further use on a grafana dashboard. The PIR unit recognize motions and
steer on/off the TFT LCD display. We count too all motions (10 minutes
frame) and the battery power. The Arduino Code is well documented and
compiled with the new IDE 2.3.2. On booting we provide very detailed
DEBUG messages about every single step.
01.04.2024
SmartHome Development
The new smarthome applications at our new home and final
retirement place are running perfect the last 3 months.
LCARS SmartHome, BOSCH SmartHome, Philips HUE, SONOS, Grafana, InfluxDB,
Node-Red, TTN Stuttgart, Amazon AWS Alexa, Google Home and
HOMEASSISTENT are doing a great and awesome job.
15.01.2024
SmartHome Development
New year - new great projects.
At the moment we are building and designing our new home and final
retirement place. So stay tuned...
06.04.2023
Seeed LoRa E5 Tutorial with ST programmer
This is a tutorial on how to program the LoRa-E5 mini device
using the ST Cube programmer and IDE.
It allows you to connect to The Things Network using a standard gateway.
The E5 mini is a compacted-sized development board suitable for the
rapid testing and building of small-size prototyping and helps you
design your ideal LoRaWAN® wireless IoT device with a long-distance
transmission range.E5 mini is embedded with Wio-E5 STM32WLE5JC Module,
which delivers the world-first combo of LoRa® RF and MCU chip into one
single tiny chip and is FCC and CE certified.
The provided source code is able to send data from the inbuild
temperature sensor and you can steer the red LED.
hackster.io - Tutorial Seeed-Lora-e5-with-st-programmer
20.03.2023
Hollywood10
After 2 years of development, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest
working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate
availability of Hollywood 10: Xcelicious. Hollywood is a programming
language that can be used to create a wide variety of programs, ranging
from games and GUI-based applications for desktop systems to mobile apps
for Android and iOS. Hollywood's special feature is its support for
retro platforms (e.g. AmigaOS, MorphOS, AROS) and modern operating
systems (e.g. Windows, macOS, Linux) alike. It comes with a library of
over 1000 commands and its functionality can be extended further through
over 30 plugins which are available for free download.
Hollywood - Multimedia
Application Layer (hollywood-mal.de)
12.01.2023
M5STACK ATOM DTU LoRaWAN868
M5STACK recently released the ATOM DTU LoRaWAN868. The M5STACK
ATOM can be programmed using Arduino IDE (2.0.4). The tutorial on
hackster.io shows you how to connect UNIT ENVIII, UNIT PIR to this
system and how we transmit all that data to The Things Network V3.
Your LCARS SmartHome SensorNode will be able to measure your environment
data (temperature, humidity and pressure) and intruder motions. The LED
in front of the ATOM will always inform you about the system status.
hackster.io - Tutorial M5STACK ATOM DTU LoRaWAN868
Every 10 minutes we will send automatically sensor data to TTN - if you
press the button - you can send messages manually. The PIR Unit will count
motions between your sending periods. LED WHITE - system is booting and
joining TTN LED BLUE - system has joined TTN and sending data LED RED -
intruder alert LED GREEN - system actual in stand-by mode. The Arduino
Code is well documented and compiled with the new IDE 2.0.4. Also you
will see very detailed DEBUG messages about every single step.