The Pulse Station plugins’s store

A store is available within Pulse Station.

This store contains differents plugins :

• Services
• Panels
• Themes
• Menus
• Blockly’s templates

Services
The services are the main part of PulseStation.
A service defines a functionnality that can be used by PulseStation(Zwave, EnOcean, Scene, etc).
Every service can talk to each other via a standardised message.

Here are some services that we already defined :

• Core : It’s the most important service, it’s the only one that must be running
• Zwave : Use the OpenZwave library to manage zwave’s devices
• EnOcean : Manage EnOcean’s devices
• Virtual Devices : Allow you to add some virtual devices like Binary Switch, URL, etc
• Scene : Manage the scenes created via Blockly. Check if a scene must run, run a scene based on an event, etc
• …

We can create a service for everything without the need to update the software.

Panels
A panel is a representative visualisation of a device.
For example, we created a Binary Switch panel to display a property that can contains 2 values.
The simple example is a binary switch which can be true or false.
The panel is customisable, that means that you can configure what are the values “true/false”. It can be “1/0” or “home/away”, etc.
Every panel has it’s own configuration…

Themes
Every users defined in Pulse Station can set a theme for his dashboard.

Menus
A functionnality that is not really used for the moment but I think that she can be usefull in the future.
We can define some extra menus for the user’s dashboard.
These menus are opened in a popup and can contain everything you want (eg : graphics, overview of the battery’s devices, etc).

Templates
I defined a new functionnality in Blockly : Templates.
A template is a group of blocks that you can reuse in every scene.
You can create your own templates and if you think you have created a good one, we can share it on the store to other users.