Join host Patrick Stuart and guests as they discuss the latest news and events in IoT and HA involving the SmartThings platform. Also, watch Patrick code solutions to HA problems with the IDE and SmartApps and DeviceTypes.
Category: Coding
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Live Code Fridays – 8/28/2015 8pm EST / 5pm PST
On this week’s show:
New to ST?
-IDE walkthrough
-Github setup and Why Github?
-Installing Community Code from Github
-Groovy Basics
-My First SmartApp creation
-IDE Logging and Events
-Troubleshooting TipsSo if you are new to ST and want to see how to do some of the basic coding you can do in the IDE or just want to install code from the community, tune and watch.
Please let me know if you want to join the hangout that will be live on air. I need to invite you to the hangout.
Otherwise feel free to use the chat to ask any questions while we are on the air.
ST Community Link: https://community.smartthings.com/t/live-code-fridays-8-28-2015-8pm-est-5pm-pst/21113
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Live Code Fridays 8/21/2015 8pm EDT
Live Code Fridays 8pm EDT 8/21/2015
Join your host Patrick Stuart and special guests while they discuss coding custom SmartApps and DeviceTypes inside the SmartThings IDE along with all the other ongoings within the IoT and HA space.
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Live Code Fridays 8/14/2015 8pm EST
Live Code Fridays – Patrickstuart.com presents Live Code Fridays with special guest host Jody Albritton. Join Jody as he creates working code, live on this special edition of Live Code Fridays. Patrick will be out of the studio, but will be trying to join the hangout remotely. If you want to be a guest, let me know.
If you want something coded up in an upcoming show, please let us know.
Google+ event page here:
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Live Code Fridays 7/31/2015 Blue Moon Edition
Event Page:
https://plus.google.com/events/cqnv8098renrqkfu6nrgo10pn68
Youtube Stream / Archive:
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Live Code Fridays 7/24/2015
Jody and I tackle a simple web dashboard using the OAUTH endpoint that SmartThings allows.
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Live Code Fridays 7/16/2015
Tim Slagle Joins me as we do part 2 of the camera smartapp and devicetype.
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Live Code Fridays 7/3/2015
April and Jody join for the kick off of the coding craziness.
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Live Code Fridays Session 1 6/26/2015
Basics of SmartThings and code writing in the IDE
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Windows Phone 7 Mango
Well, I got a Samsung Focus S to play around with this weekend and test the windows phone 7 OS out. Overall, I liked it, but I can’t switch from iOS just yet.
UI
The “Metro” UI is actually quite nice, I found it easy to use and find everything. My biggest gripe is lack of customization beyond just the basic moving around of things. I can’t find the battery percentage at the top, have to dig fifteen menus deep to get at it.
Email
I love the email app, finally someone gives me a way to see only unread emails, only flagged emails, only important (!) emails in my exchange outlook. The linked inboxes are cool too, even though I finally got that on iOS.
Social
The phone is clearly aimed at social media users, and the integration is really good. Of course its lacking any Google+ integration. Not a big deal, but its easy to set up and easy to use. Can easy send pictures to multiple social media sites. Only biggest issue is you can’t easily switch between multiple users on different sites.
Issues
Have to use the Zune software on my computer to load music. I hate the zune software, why can’t I just copy my music over, or why can’t I download music from my skydrive?
No VPN??? Really Microsoft? Really? I can’t believe you released a mobile OS without any VPN support! This is absurd!
App prices are off the chart. Sure I get xbox live integration, but nothing too impressive here.
No Hulu? Again, Really? This isn’t rocket science, get hulu on your OS!
Development
I’m a native visual studio user, so I found creating apps using XAML very familar, but no sockets connections! This means any non web based connections are out of the question. I wanted to write a simple app to query my Control4 system. Already had a cool C# desktop app, figured it would be easy… Nope. The SDK lacks a lot of core .NET features.
Overall
I want to like this OS, but I can’t. I like the phone, despite bad battery life. The camera is good, the screen is ok, a bit gray in the whites for me. Ultimately, it will be another version or two before they win me over again. For now, I’m going back to my iPhone 4, I miss my iPhone 4.