Smart systems, data analysis and software technology
Running Home Assistant Open Source home automation locally offers great advantages, such as optimizing your own energy usage or to simply automate boring and repetitive tasks. In case you own a Synology network disks, such as the Synology Diskmanager DS218+ you can directly run Docker containers on your local network disk and therefore also run […]
While designing the new generic Smartscape topology model in Dynatrace, I came across a tremendously useful 3D graphing project: force-3d-graph by vasturiano. Cudos to Vasturiano and his valuable contribution to 2D and 3D graph visualisation in JavaScript and within your local Browser. This library enabled the implementation of an Open Source 2D and 3D graph […]
Highly dynamic change in IT service topology is inevitable in modern automated deployment and delivery platforms such as Kubernetes (K8S). Tracing those micro-service IT service environments is hard to grasp for a human, as those traces and deployment stacks consists of millions, yes even billions of monitored entities. One of the unique benefits of rolling […]
First things first: I did fell in love with my Synology NAS! After a year of running my DS-218+, I can’t believe how I used to work without it before. What is so special about the DS-218+ Synology DiskStation is not that it is an incredibly flexible network storage, BUT much more that it is […]
MobileVNC embedded VNC server library version 2.1 now also supports outgoing connections to VNC repeater software. Find here a detailed tutorial how to connect with VNC behind a Firewall or a NAT router. This lightweight, embedded VNC server is perfectly designed to be integrated within your own hardware or software products.
Today i purchased the RealVNC VNC Viewer for Android based devices, in order to test the compatibility with my MobileVNC Windows CE based VNC server. RealVNC takes €7.55 for this piece of software, which is quite high compared to the typical prices within the Google Play marketplace. Despite my initial fears, the RealVNC VNC Viewer […]
Today, i connected my Arduino Uno board to a really cheap Bluetooth serial module ($7 at ebay) in order to communicate with my Android smartphone (tribute to Massimo Banzi for this fantastic piece of engineering, see a tutorial video about starting with Arduino). The image below shows my $7 Bluetooth serial module. It offers 4 pinouts […]
Three days ago the new release 2.0 of our Windows and Windows CE based VNC Server (MobileVNC, also known as PocketVNC) was published and is ready to install. Over the last 7 years i got a lot of response from customers and partners. This feedback also included information on a wide spectrum of different application […]
Today, the new version 2.0 MobileVNC was released! MobileVNC now comes with full Win32 support and Websocket HTML5 client included (noVNC). MobileVNC implements a tiny, copy to install, VNC server that offers remote control for your Windows CE and Win32 based devices. The range of supported devices ranges from mobile barcode scanners, Point-Of-Sales terminals, industrial […]
This short post shows how to visually control mobile and embedded devices out of the Web, by using a websocket enabled VNC server in combination with a HTML5 based VNC viewer