Our third and final milestone for OpenRemote Boss 1.0 was tagged in July but I never got around announcing it. Better late than never.
What is new in M3 is largely changes on the hosted online tools. The new protocols (KNX, TCP/IP, HTTP and Telnet) that were added to the controller in M2 are now supported on the UI composer. It means that instead of hand-editing the controller XML files to use these protocols, you can configure them using drag and drop online tools. All the configuration is generated for you and you can easily upload them to the controller with one button click.
The OR Boss 1.0 M3 composer is available at http://composer.openremote.org/demo.
In addition some changes went into the controller and iPhone console to add an auto-discovery of the controller in a local network setup (using multicast). This eases the deployment somewhat when you don't have to know or type the controller IP address yourself. |
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Downloads
The M3 controller is available as a binary download for those eager to try it out. It is a pure Java binary so it will run on any machine that has the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed. For more details on accessing the source code, testing the functionality and and running the controller, see the OpenRemote Releases page. Now that the 1.0 milestones are completed, we will be focusing on documenting the setup and deployment and providing some tutorials to get the system up and running for non-developers as well. In the meanwhile, some additional useful links are listed below:
What's Coming
As mentioned, version 1.0 of OR Boss is almost feature complete. X10 library integration still needs to be put back in, and I'm trying to sneak in some tweaks to KNX functionality but mostly we'll be working on packaging to make it more consumable from now on.
We also have UPnP (thanks to contribution of Mathieu Gallissot) and some GlobalCache support (from Marc Fleury and Eric Bariaux) coming up. These are currently in the feature branches in subversion but expect to see them in either 1.1 or 2.0 version of the OR Boss.
We've already begun working on the OR Boss 2.0 in parallel, and some of the discussions related to the next version can be read in the links below:
