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RoomTunes is a native Sonos controller that I originally developed for BB10, back in 2012. It went on to become one of the most successful music apps on the platform for a while, and did considerably better than I ever expected. Up until now though, I don’t think anyone knows that I wrote it

After a long period of inactivity, one of the older parts of Catch22 HexEdit has been resurrected. If you remember HexEdit, it had a feature called TypeLib for describing structured binary data. The language and parser I built predates HexEdit’s 2012-era implementation by several years, and I haven’t touched the code in a long time until now.

Loxone has its own proprietary wireless technology called Loxone Air. Peripherals based on this technology integrate seamlessly into the Miniserver and controlling them is no different to hard-wired devices. The problem with Loxone Air is that it is a closed technology, and the Loxone peripherals are also relatively expensive, often 2-4 times more so than their Zigbee equivalents.