SwitchSmart!
The “radio controlled power sockets”-project finally got its very own name and project site:
Several improvements happened since my last post about this project:
- there’s finally an Android app now!
- shared-memory is now used for sharing the states of devices between several instances
- there’s now one more tested and working platform: the La Fonera router by Fon
- and – as usual at the end of changelogs: several bugs and timing issues got fixed
back to the coast
Since it was raining in Ubud most of the time I decided to get back to the coast, back to Sanur.
“My room” in the house of that English-Balinese family in Sanur got a bit, ehrm, “broken” meanwhile:
However the time the weather was reasonable, I tried to catch as much as possible – e.g. the legendary monkey forest: hell, 2500 monkeys trying to rip you off.
Trying to get everything which is not part of your body (cameras, necklaces, earrings, (sun)glasses, etc.) – waiting with your belongings a few meters in front of you for bananas or other food in exchange – seriously, you can buy your stuff back!
After two days in Sanur I moved to the “southern most point” of Bali, Uluwatu. It was my fault to not book a room or an apartment in advance, so I experienced one “sorry, we’re full” after another on site.
Finally some building workers put me into one of their unfinished apartments they were working on. It was overprized, however I was tired and happy I finally found an accommodation.
In Uluwatu, according surfers, there is a couple of best spots highly seeked by surfers – that’s why the few existing quarters down there are full and overpriced all the time.
Since I’m not surfing (and these spots are definitly not proper spots for beginning with) and nothing else was around (the last kind of “bar” around closes at 8PM), I just enjoyed the view, read something and left two days later.
Actually I wanted to go Seminyak and a few days further to Tanah Lot (one of the most adored temples in Bali), but everything there was full, as well (however this time I knew before, as I called them ).
As I had to cross Kuta (the “Ballermann” of Bali, mentioned in the post before) – and since it was the only place around I was able to get a room reserved for this night – I decided to stay there overnight and move further the day after.
When I arrived in Kuta however, they told me, the guy who wanted to checkout is going to stay longer and there’s no more room available. After hours of walking around looking for and calling hotels / apartments (once again), some locals I met offered me to stay in there place where I am currently.
The reason by the way everything is fully booked is Ramadan.
Will go directly to Tanah Lot this afternoon, after confirming the room reserved there is still available when leaving
UPATE: I _am_ in Tanah Lot right now, however didn’t get post online in time
Qt is working on OpenWrt
Okay, now some – really little – text I promised…
As you can I see Qt is running inside OpenWrt on the Ben NanoNote of qi-hardware. The device has only 32MB of RAM so this – especially this video I made (qt_openwrt_nanonote.ogm) with it’s coverflow-like 3d and mirroring-effects – shows the great potential of even such embedded hardware.
The Qt packages are not yet committed, I’ll do some cleanups and testing before.
However it’s almost ready to get its way into the OpenWrt packages repository.
FOSDEM
Me and most of the other OpenWrt-guys are going to FOSDEM – the Free And Open Software Developement Meeting in Brussels.
See you there!