Connected Devices Weekly Update/2016-03-29

Program		Status	Notes
Vaani	Validation (Lindsay/Sandip)	On Target	Demos Demo set up for Monday April 4th Video for sprint review is complete https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkMFX5pdeNY&feature=youtu.be Finalizing what the London demo looks like in the next couple of weeks, i.e. what to bring on stage vs. demo at a table Engineering Working through the milestones that are due on April 1st Getting ready to set up work for the next sprint Setting up mac env w/openHAB... Getting Hue bound and working Getting WEMO bound and working Getting Sonos bound and working Getting LIFX light bound and working Creating video demo of everything working Maven plugin integration to build JNI shared objects for pocketsphinx Maven plugin integration to build JNI shared objects for webrtc_vad Program I am very excited to be working with this team and am ramping up Looking into other ways to track the product Scheduling the 2nd Demo when the execs are in Berlin QA Looked into the previous voice collection app and thought about how to convert it to a web application Action: Distribute summary of the app and our approach Participation Talking with Kelly and David about coding competition and what we will need to do before we can launch.
Project Link	Validation Stage (Julie/Preeti)	On Target	Project Workweek in Mountain View with dev, product and UX members Product Discussions on product differentiators and vision for Project Link UX Interaction draft specs for Recipes reviewed First draft of visuals produced Simplified UI proposed for pilot scenes at the workweek and is on-track Research User research conducted for Amazon Echo product and results shared here Engineering Workweek Accomplishments Technical overview sessions presented by team members for IFTTT, Taxonomy/APIs , Adapters, Authentication/Tunneling, Web Push, Web App Modules. Presentation documentation will be shared soon on wiki. Conducted Q&A session with Rust developers Taxonomy integration progress for Hue and Motion Sensor Adapter Implementation of secure connection to FoxBox Workweek ended with following Demos Implementation of simplified Recipes UI Web Push Adapter implementation and integration with taxonomy IFTTT (Recipes) integration demonstrated with rule created and triggered with a clock and IP camera. Taxonomy integration for IP Camera Adapter and ability to take snapshots from the app Kwikset Door Lock integration demonstrating discovery and open/close actions Participation dev-project-link@mozilla.org public mailing list created Meetings Notes from community participation plan discussion are here.
Smart TV for 2.6	Josh	On Target	Tv 2.6 scoped finalized : http://bit.ly/1Tb9N4a TV 2.6 Wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/TV_2.6 2.6 meta bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=TV_FxOS2.6 Post 2.6: New architecture http://bit.ly/1X68tgE. Joe had a content meeting with panasonic last week and will discuss with Ari about future plan for TV content/marketplace this week
Smart TV Next Gen	Validation (Joe/Josh)	On Target	Working on use cases that enhances the user's engagement experience with the TV by offering better remote control, content discovery, personalization, multi-user experiences. In parallel, we are exploring to work with an external creative agency to help us either make our ideas better or create even better new ideas. Strategy Analytics research material: Smart TV market overview - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B79ce_W1QaRgd0xtTDM0TE1rWVE User research - Smart TV pain points and feature interests - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B79ce_W1QaRgZG9FWHpxSWxRQzQ
Project SmartHome	Maria/Liz	On Target	Shift in the project, Research plan presented two weeks ago has been revisited after receiving some feedback from several team members. there were doubts about the problem we’d identified and the direction we were heading in. we chose a target audience and problem area that lots of people are already trying to solve in many different ways we were trying to find solutions that would make a compelling illustration of the pitch concept for London Last week the team focused on: Revisiting the Research plan and the new hypothesis. Creating the new research plan to learn about the needs of the new targeted audiences: Babysitting age (12 to 15 years old) and independent elderly (aging in place) Explore limits of “making dumb things smart” in the home. During this week all team members are conducting the new Research plan via interviews Next week in Portland the plan is Summarize Research findings Choose 2 or 3 problem areas from the Research findings to focus on Brainstorm solutions to these and/or our next research plan
Project Sensor Web	Cindy/Wesley	On Target
Porting	Nicole/David/Peter	On Target
FlyWeb	Nicole/Dylan	On Target
Firefox OS Smartphone Sunset Smartphone Transition Wiki	Smartphone Commercial Sunset (Karen)	On Target	Smartphone Commercial Transition Wiki Progressing closing agreements with partners on schedule
	Code Transition (Julie)	Challenged	Smartphone Code Transition Wiki
	Foxfooding (Jean)	On Target
	Transition to Volunteer Community (George)	On Target	B2G OS Transition to Community Wiki
Participation Update	Brian	On Target
Metrics for CD	Maria	On Target	Last Friday we finished sprint 1 The target was transmitting a sample crash ping Sprint 2 will be focused on fixing validation problems on the server side when transmitting the crash ping and starting the work in the Histograms library It will require a high level design first so later we can decide what components to maintain or not.
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