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More than a year after I started with the simple html based visualisation of our home-automation system I finally found some time to reimplement it.

But now based on the uebercool, all singing and dancing Ajax technology.
The picture is probably boring as I havn’t really worked on the widgets yet, but I tried to resemble the visu I’ve done in 2004.
Most of the interesting things are under the hood:

• nearly everything is Javascript generated, meaning on loading of the page only some Javascript is bootstrapped which then requests the visualisation objects and generates the html code
• CSS based, layout and appearance can easily be customised
• no page reloads, all communications with the server part are made with XMLHttpRequest
• better separation of presentation and application layer, despite the initial html/javascript bootstrap only events (e.g. object xyz has changed its value to n) are exchanged between the visu app in the browser and the server part
• and in the end the best: EIB events are processed in realtime, a press of a sensor button immediately changes the representation of its object(s) in the browser