Today we have information about ioBroker on Windows machines and an update on the TeamSpeak community. Furthermore, we give you an overview of new visualization adapters. Stay tuned.
New windows installer available as beta
Stabilostick from the ioBroker community has been working intensively on a new Windows installer for ioBroker over the past few months. This is now available as a beta. In addition to ioBroker, the improved setup also installs Node.js and all the necessary tools in the currently recommended versions in one go. With this, we would now also like to enable easy access to ioBroker for users who place more value on powerful SmartHome functions and less on the technology behind them.
As a special feature, the installer now also supports the provision of several parallel ioBroker servers on one computer. This makes ioBroker multi-tenant with multiple instances. In addition, it is now easily possible to install production and test environment on one computer.
You can find more information about the installer under https://forum.iobroker.net/topic/22866. We look forward to your feedback and suggestions.
News from the Teamspeak community
Organized by Flexer, Sven_Topp and Dutchman from the ioBroker community, a TeamSpeak server for ioBroker and smart home topics was launched in October 2018. The fact that the 550 user mark was recently exceeded shows that voice chat is a welcome addition to our forum and Facebook group. In the meantime, some Teamspeak users are already coming from Austria and Switzerland.
A separate video streaming service on the subject of Smart Home is planned for the future. There have already been streams on the subject of alarm systems, Blockly and Unifi. Seminars on visualization are also in preparation. The streaming offer is to be continuously expanded and expanded. There is also a Telegram group for exchanging information quickly. Further information and the Teamspeak access data can be found under https://forum.iobroker.net/topic/15878.
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Did you know? What is GitHub and why should I use it?
GitHub is a development platform that enables us as open source developers to develop and publish ioBroker and all the adapters quickly, easily and conveniently. GitHub provides the necessary infrastructure, servers and tools on which large parts of the development of ioBroker are based. So it's where the developers hang out most of the time. So if bugs have been found and possibly confirmed in the forum, GitHub is the correct place to report them as issues - English and German are perfectly ok. The same applies to feature requests. If the bugs or feature requests already exist, use the "thumbs up" option to show your interest. The developers can easily see how important a topic is.
The ioBroker project uses the options for adapter requests, among other things. A GitHub account is created very quickly: E-mail, name and password are enough and you can already support by reporting and voting on bugs, feature requests and adapter requests. Help with!
New visualization adapters
The VIS adapter is certainly known to every ioBroker user. With this you can realize almost everything that is graphically possible, but you also have to design it yourself in mostly small-scale manual work. On the other hand, the mobile adapter has been around for a long time, but is no longer being developed further for technical reasons.
Some new visualization adapters have recently been developed, which we would like to briefly present here. Many of these are still under development and therefore only available in the Latest repository. What they all have in common is that they are accessed via a web browser.
- iqcontrol: Makes it quick and easy to put together interfaces that are visually based on Apple Home. Functions and rooms must be maintained in ioBroker.
- habpanel: Connects OpenHab's HabPanel interface to ioBroker. The components can be freely combined on pages and can display the values of the ioBroker states.
- material: Creates surfaces largely automatically based on maintained functions, rooms and the roles of the states.
- tileboard: HomeAssistant's tileboard interface makes it easy to define and create your own interfaces. JavaScript, CSS and HTML knowledge is required. The adapter allows access to the data of the ioBroker states.
- lovelace: HomeAssistant has created a very simple interface with Lovelace. The adapter enables you to create your own interfaces automatically, based on functions and rooms, or manually. Of course, the data also comes from ioBroker here.