Open Smart Environment - Filesystem
This package contains definitions of entry kinds that represent
files and directories and gives OSE access to the filesystem and
registers fs as a source to the Media player.
See Media player example.
It also defines a JSON file-based database backend for shards.
Important links
This package is a part of the OSE suite. For more information, see the following links:
About OSE
Open Smart Environment software is a suite for creating
multi-instance applications that work as a single whole.
Imagine, for example, a personal mesh running on various devices
including HTPCs, phones, tablets, workstations, servers, Raspberry
Pis, home automation gadgets, wearables, drones, etc.
OSE software consists of several npm packages: a framework running
on Node.js, an HTML5 frontend, extending
packages and a set of example applications.
Set-up of current example applications. Here,
OSE provides a Media player running on an HTPC
that can be controlled by an IR remote through
LIRC and is capable of playing streams from a
DVB streamer and control devices through GPIO
pins on a Raspberry Pi
For more information about OSE see the documentation.
Status
- Pre-alpha stage (insecure and buggy)
- Unstable API
- Patchy documentation
- Low test coverage (1 %)
This is not yet a piece of download-and-use software. It is important
to understand the basic principles covered by the
documentation.
However, this software is successfully and continuously used since end
of 2013 in one installation running 7 OSE instances spread over several
Raspberries, HTPC and notebook.
Platforms
OSE has the following prerequisites:
- Node.js (>0.12) running on Debian Jessie and Raspbian
- Recent version of Firefox or Chrome browser
Licence
This software is released under the terms of the GNU General
Public Licence v3.0 or
later.
