Another year has passed and EclipseCon Europe 2018 (opens new window) took place in Ludwigsburg, Germany - and with it, our second edition of a colocated Smart Home Day (opens new window).

The Smart Home Day was hosted by the openHAB Foundation (opens new window) with Bosch SI (opens new window), codecentric (opens new window) and Deutsche Telekom (opens new window) as sponsors. Just like last year, the day was all about Eclipse SmartHome (opens new window), its solutions and especially its community. Not only were there again very interesting talks about the internals of Eclipse SmartHome and some of its new features. The audience also learned about cool projects that have been realised with it. The program concluded with a panel discussion about the pros and cons of different build and IDE approaches for the project - giving good insights into Maven, Tycho and Bnd.

As the community is spread over the whole world and not everyone had the chance to come to Ludwigsburg, the Smart Home Day presentations were professionally recorded this year by the CCC Video Operations Center (opens new window). They did an awesome job and not only provided us high-quality recordings, but also had all of them uploaded and shared a few minutes after the event was over (opens new window).

The Agenda

The day was packed with content from 10am in the morning until 5pm in the afternoon. All videos are available on a YouTube playlist (opens new window) as well as on media.ccc.de (opens new window).

Presentation (link to slides)	Video
Welcome and Introduction Kai Kreuzer, President openHAB Foundation	(opens new window)
Eclipse IoT: State of the Union Benjamin Cabé, Eclipse IoT Evangelist Eclipse Foundation	(opens new window)
Updates from the Core Framework (opens new window) Henning Treu, Eclipse SmartHome Committer	(opens new window)
MQTT Integration for Eclipse SmartHome David Graeff, Eclipse SmartHome Contributor	(opens new window)
HABot - a Chat Bot for openHAB Yannick Schaus, openHAB Maintainer	(opens new window)
Building Automation at codecentric Headquarters - A Look Behind the Scenes (opens new window) Christina Zenzes & Anna Backs, codecentric	(opens new window)
SmartHome Cloud: An Open & Extensible Cloud-Native Plattform for Consumer IoT Mehmet Arziman, openHAB Cloud Maintainer	(opens new window)
Smartening a Residential Complex. The 2^5 Application! George Erhan, openHAB Community Member	(opens new window)
The Eclipse Smart Home Automation Engine – From Open Source to Production Kai Hackbarth, Evangelist, Bosch SI	(opens new window)
Eclipse SmartHome & Bndtools (opens new window) Jochen Hiller, Runtime Architect, Deutsche Telekom	(opens new window)
Eclipse SmartHome & Plain Old Maven Lukasz Dywicki, Founder Code-House	(opens new window)
Panel Discussion - Build Tooling for Eclipse SmartHome Candidate 1: Maven - Advocated by Lukasz Dywicki Candidate 2: Tycho - Advocated by Kai Kreuzer Candidate 3: Bnd - Advocated by BJ Hargrave Moderation: Henning Treu	(opens new window)

A big thanks to everyone who has attended the event as well as to all the speakers that helped making the day a great success! There was a lot of very positive feedback on the talks and it always makes a very special atmosphere to have so many passionate community members together at one place. While we will try to repeat doing such events in future, everybody should feel encouraged to organise local meet-ups or other types of events around their favorite project - it is absolutely worth the efforts!

You can find pictures of the Smart Home Day on Google Photos: