LXML is an amazing Python module that picks up where the standard xml.dom(.minidom) left off. It’s basically a set of wrapper code around the libxml2 and libxslt libraries, and provides functionality missing in Python’s standard library, including XML validation and XPaths. On a project I’m currently working on I needed a good XML library for […]
After a two-month hiatus, we resumed our monthly meetings at LESO-PB to discuss recent developments in building automation and simulation. Frédéric Haldi, David Daum and yours truly attended. We had a smaller group this time, but that turned out to be a good opportunity for going into more detail about some of the research that’s […]
Recently I stumbled upon a blog entry by Marc Fleury, whom I believe is one of the lead developers on the JBoss Application Server project. In this post he describes his new pet project, OpenRemote, which has of late bloomed into a full blown affair. There’s an official website and the project seems to be […]
Lighting Research and Technology vol 40 nr 3 has a couple of articles that sound interesting for anyone involved in visual comfort. Proportions of direct and indirect indoor lighting — The effect on health, well-being and cognitive performance of office workers, by KI Fostervold and J. Nersveen. Indirect lighting has been recommended as a way […]
One article in the last issue of Energy and Buildings is of particular relevance to the field of home automation, particularly where daylight control is involved: Simplified correlations of global, direct and diffuse luminous efficacy on horizontal and vertical surfaces, by A. De Rosaa, V. Ferraroa, D. Kaliakatsosa and V. Marinelli. A simple calculation method […]
There’s a great discussion on StackOverflow going on, when someone asked for suggestions for a low power, low cost and high availability linux box. Exactly the kind of hardware we need for home automation.