Extremely happy with my success :)

[v1rtu0s1ty]

I'm so happy tonight because I accomplished the goal I started last week. I am now able to control my sprinkler system as well as realtime monitoring of the motion sensors from anywhere such as laptop or phone. I can now focus on the design and I'll make sure the UX will be really nice. Right now, I only used very plain html code and JavaScript. I'm actually thinking of making a real product! What do you think guys? Is there a good market for it?
 

 

[v1rtu0s1ty]

Just an update. I took a video of my phone beside my laptop and asked my son to walk so that the sensor in the living room and family room will be triggered
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqy2UibmEgo

 

[BaduFamily]

Have Fun!

 

[ano]

 Is there a good market for it?

Hmm..  You may want to ask Dean or Chris or Mark. They all hang out here.  ^_^ 

 

[NeverDie]

 Is there a good market for it?

You didn't completely say what "it" is.  What hardware does it assume?

 

[tadr]

You can monitor (and respond to) motion sensors using the Elk itself or get more integration using a Vera controller... it looks like you just wrote your own interface for the Elk, which is cool, but why reinvent the wheel?

 

[v1rtu0s1ty]

You can monitor (and respond to) motion sensors using the Elk itself or get more integration using a Vera controller... it looks like you just wrote your own interface for the Elk, which is cool, but why reinvent the wheel?

Because it's fun to write. I'm going to learn writing it. The web application will be a responsive website which means it will work in desktop, laptops, and phones. Also, the program I'm developing will not only be dedicated for ELK but can be used anywhere though I will have to write an interface for it so that users can add their stuff.
 
I forgot to mention that the first main reason why I wrote this is because my ELK doesn't have an ethernet port. With the proof of concept I showed above, I can now access it from any part of the globe.

 

[v1rtu0s1ty]

You didn't completely say what "it" is.  What hardware does it assume?

You mean which Elk? Actually any device as long as there is a serial port and rs232 manual where I can learn about the product's api.

 

[Frunple]

I wouldn't put too much effort into making it a "product". No offense but I agree with the above, it's all already being done.

 

[v1rtu0s1ty]

It's ok. It's not only for ELK. Thank you.

 

[Frunple]

It's ok. It's not only for ELK. Thank you.

 
I didn't mean just for Elk. 

 

[v1rtu0s1ty]

I didn't mean just for Elk. 

I'll still continue building it even if there are already tons out there. There could be features that are not implemented on that existing product mentioned above but I'm not sure which product you are referring to when you said "it's already being done".
 
Also,  there'll be 20+billion devices that will be connected in IoT by 2020 so I guess, why not exploit it now even if the product I'll build will fail. It would have been more extremely worst if I didn't even try it. That's when human fails.

 

[ano]

There are certainly other systems out there, but many have problems as well. None have really been web based from the ground up. In most cases, access from a phone of the web was an afterthought. Of course the newest type of automation, the hubs like Wink and SmartThings is all web based, but the problem with them is too little in-home presence.  They tend to be all web, so you are at the mercy of some cloud somewhere. An in-house system that has web access as its start would be new and unique. But while software is good, the key to making these successful is lots of interfaces. This can be time consuming and expensive to create.

 

[zenix]

Of course the newest type of automation, the hubs like Wink and SmartThings is all web based, but the problem with them is too little in-home presence. They tend to be all web, so you are at the mercy of some cloud somewhere.

 
Please, they are cloud based, meaning "somebody else's server on the internet" based. When we are talking web based, that would be Castle OS, which has the web as the main interface.

 

[Dean Roddey]

Run away now. Become a priest, which would probably be much more lucrative.