CometVisu
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| Maintainer | CometVisu Open Source Project |
| developer | CometVisu Open Source Project |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| Current version |
0.11.2 ( August 11, 2019 ) |
| operating system | Linux , Windows , macOS , Unix , OpenBSD , FreeBSD |
| programming language | JavaScript , optionally PHP |
| category | Building automation |
| License | GPL |
| www.cometvisu.org | |
CometVisu is a real-time visualization for building automation implemented with web technologies . Here different states of a building (where is the light on? How high is the actual temperature?) Are displayed and also set (target temperature). In contrast to other common solutions, no special software is required for the display, just a web browser, which allows seamless use on mobile devices.
CometVisu is available under the GNU General Public License (GPL) from the GitHub project website. In addition, it is now (from version 1.1) pre-installed with the WireGate multifunction gateway, an appliance for smart homes.
history
The CometVisu is a development that arose from discussions in the KNX user forum, the largest German-language information platform on the subject of the KNX standard (KNX) and "Smart living". The first steps came with internal discussions in summer 2010, a public announcement on October 30, 2010 and the first release , version 0.5.0, on October 24, 2010.
CometVisu was developed because at that time there was no other web-based visualization that could display status changes in real time. Visualizations that had to be installed on the computer and therefore required a computer with Windows as a prerequisite were common in 2010. There have also been approaches for web visualizations. These could only indicate a status change through regular polling , which resulted in a high system load and high display latency.
CometVisu has been used as a visualization for OpenHAB since 2013 . This also forms the technical basis of the JUNG Smart Visu Server , which has been available since 2016.
history
| version | publication | Remarks | |
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| 0.5.0 | October 24, 2010 | First publication (only in SVN ), for internal beta test. *) | |
| 0.5.1 | November 26, 2010 | First release as a package. New widgets . Installation of an editor. | |
| 0.5.2 | December 11, 2010 | The Visu can be expanded with plug-ins. | |
| 0.5.3 | February 6, 2010 | Additional designs. | |
| 0.6.1 **) | November 27, 2012 | Significant expansion of the functions. Release for the public beta test. *) | |
| 0.6.2 | December 30, 2012 | Fixed publication. | |
| 0.8.0 | 17th November 2013 | Significant expansion of functions, e.g. B. on multiple columns or 2D pages. New editor. openHAB as an additional data source. | |
| 0.8.1 | February 8, 2014 | Fixed publication. Also a new plug-in (gauge). | |
| 0.8.2 | March 2, 2014 | Fixed publication. Slight further development in the diagrams and gauge. | |
| 0.8.3 | May 4, 2014 | Slight further developments, especially with the diagrams. | |
| 0.8.4 | November 11, 2014 | Internal switch to AMD . | |
| 0.8.5 | January 15, 2015 | Additional management interface to be able to edit various configuration files purely via the web interface. | |
| 0.9.0 | November 8, 2015 | Internal conversion of website generation to load faster with large configurations. | |
| 0.9.1 | March 13, 2016 | Extension of the layout settings to allow responsive pages. | |
| 0.9.2 | May 1, 2016 | Correction of errors in DPT: 6.010 encoding and in the display of Infoaction widgets in metal design | |
| 0.10.0 | 5th March 2017 | Significant reduction in loading times through local caching | |
| 0.10.1 | 2nd April 2017 | Performance improvement for login | |
| 0.10.2 | April 9, 2017 | Small bug fix | |
| 0.11.0 | March 10, 2019 | Some bug fixes and new features (notification and error reporting, * .txt editor, Docker container, demo mode, ...) | |
| 0.11.1 | April 13, 2019 | Some bug fixes | |
| 0.11.2 ***) | 11th August 2019 | Some bug fixes (slider updates, templates with multi-child nodes, ...) | |
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*) - In the early days of development, a distinction was made between internal and public beta tests. The WireGate beta testers were internal beta testers, even if CometVisu itself has been available to all interested parties via the version control system and the publications on SourceForge since the very beginning .
**) - Due to technical problems, 0.6.0 was immediately replaced by version 0.6.1, which is identical in content.
***) See also: https://github.com/CometVisu/CometVisu/releases
In addition to the versions shown in this table, there were some pre-releases and release candidates, some with significant development spikes. This happened especially before version 0.6 (the start of the public beta test) and version 0.8 (the change of editor).
technology
Clients
All web browsers that support modern standards are suitable for displaying and interacting with the visualization. In addition to the usual PC-based browsers such as Google Chrome or Firefox, this applies to mobile devices with Android or Apple iOS .
Designs
Due to the use of general internet technologies (HTML, CSS), you can easily implement your own designs. Supplied (as of January 24, 2015, version 0.8.5) are nine different ones, from the minimalist “Pure” to “Planet” in the style of Star Trek productions (LCARS) to “Metal” in a modern look.
editor
The CometVisu comes with an integrated editor that was implemented as a WYSIWYG editor up to version 0.6 .
As of version 0.8, this has been replaced by a more universal editor that allows the XML-based configuration files to be edited directly according to the valid rules of the defining XML schema (XSD). Adaptation is therefore also possible for users without any knowledge of XML.
server
On the server side, CometVisu essentially only needs a web server. If it supports PHP, optional components such as the editor can also be used. There are two different backends for connection to the building automation. One is based on the eibd , an open source daemon for communication with KNX, the other is based on OpenHAB .
Transmission protocol
The freely available CometVisu protocol is used as the transmission protocol. The basis is a "long polling", also known as the Comet pattern , an Ajax programming technique.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b www.cometvisu.org .
- ↑ sourceforge.net .
- ↑ Release 0.11.2 . August 11, 2019 (accessed August 11, 2019).
- ↑ Stefan Heinle: Home automation with KNX, DALI, 1-Wire and Co. . Rheinwerk Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8362-3461-0 .
- ↑ WireGate Release Notes (repo.wiregate.de)
- ↑ Open Automation: New Sub-Projects (SourceForge)
- ↑ Open Automation: CometVisu Beta Release 0.5.1 (SourceForge)
- ↑ openHAB - User Interfaces . Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ↑ JUNG -Smart Visu Server . Retrieved November 14, 2016.
- ↑ CometVisu: demo config: swiss (cometvisu.org)