Iztiar

Liminaries

Iztiar aims to form a big family of packages (and, of course, nothing less) to drive a set of sensors, actioners, scenarios, and the glue around all of these. Put in together, we so are building a home automation application, the dream of an automated home, a building supervision software, etc.

Thanks to the designed unique architecture, we do not at the moment identify any limit to the possible usages.

As of 0.x versions, we are still in the long process of drawing the future plans and evaluating implementation patterns.

In other words, though all is public and published in gthub and npmjs, nothing is really finalized, and the application still does nothing :(

At least, it is almost bug-free!

So, please be patient...

iztiar-core

iztiar-core (this package) is the very core of the whole software family. Through its command-line interface, it is expected to provide the core services required by Iztiar:

• the coreBroker messaging bus
• the coreController service
• the REST API server
• the certificate-based security framework.

Command-line interface

iztiar {start|stop|test} [--storage-dir <storage_dir>] [--loglevel <loglevel>]

It is a design decision that the command-line accept as few options as possible. The rationale is that we want the configuration be written.

The <storage_dir> option addresses the iztiar configuration file, which itself is expected to fully describe all services to be started (respectively stopped, tested).

See also:

• the Technologies document which describes the used technologies
• the Architecture description
• the Taxonomy document which defines and explain the notions used here
• , and, last, the Installation to know how to install this piece of gold :)

Some notes about the iztiar word

According to Wikipedia, Itziar may be understood as both a spain city and a female given name.

According to Etre parents, Itziar would originate from basque language, and would be appliable to both male and female persons. It would mean « champ d’étoiles » in french, or « field of stars » in english.

Other considered names were:

• adomojs: Authomatized Domus Javascript
• adomong: Authomatized Dom New Generation
• or see also how NodeJS finds three new words each time we reload the page..;)

A copyright notice

First, and though lot of the code has been redesigned or rewritten, the very first code set has been shamelessly forked from Homebridge.

Second, many ideas have been taken from Jeedom.

Third, many ideas have also been pulled from other automation softwares, either current or stopped as the day...