Connected Devices Weekly Update/2016-04-12

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Program		Status	Notes
Vaani	Validation (Aaron/Sandip)	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Project Link	Validation Stage (Julie/Preeti)	On Target	Product Engineering We are in the last mile to wrap up two pilot scenes involving monitoring and control of Phillips Hue lights, Fibaro Motion Sensor, Kwitset/Schlage Door Locks, D-Link IP Camera devices. Hue Adapter integration with taxonomy ready to land Z-wave Adapter with getter (ex: ability to read sensor status) and setter (ex: changing the state of a lock) are working and ready to land HTTPS support is in review. Working through setting and triggering Thinkerbell rules involving Z-wave devices. Once above work lands, it will enable testing end to end both the pilot scenes. Participation Held a Community Participation Planning Session for London on April 7th. Discussed holding a Design Sprint in London based based on a problem Link is trying to solve Agreed to develop prioritized list of ways in which volunteers in London can help. Volunteer contributor ideas are welcome! Established a Discourse category for Link Discussed holding Sprint Demo meetings in a public vidyo room after moving to the next project phase
Smart TV for 2.6	Josh	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Smart TV Next Gen	Validation (Joe/Josh)	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Project SmartHome	Maria/Liz	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Project Magnet	Maria/Francisco	On Target	The team is back and we are preparing tomorrow's kick off meeting We need to set the goals and following milestones (Mozilla London space experience) Legal team is also involved and helping us with some initial investigation Scheduled meeting on Thursday with Product manager from Firefox to get further alignment with Firefox mobile (ios and android).
Project Sensor Web	Cindy/Wesley	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Porting	Nicole/David/Peter	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
FlyWeb	Nicole/Dylan	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Metrics for CD	Maria/Dylan	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Research Team	Lindsay	On Target	Technical Research Do Monkey Started with competitive analysis of Huginn and Node-Red Vaani Attempting Alexa Voice Service RPi hello world Taking a look at wit.ai Flyweb Had a meeting with Kannan and talked about Flyweb plans, basic architecture, possible BT implementations, etc. Investigating BT use cases for low-friction user interactions with Android sample apps (PoC) Sensor Web Finishing up summary of existing work for Sensor Web Next up: order an RPi and try flashing Open Sensor Hub onto it to see what it does? Market Research Published update for the Market Research Resources page. Planning to publish updates ~every 2 weeks. Supporting inquiries from trains and train candidates Smart TV - why are people cord cutting? Smart Home List of home automation competitors targeting teens and elderly users Projected smart home activities report Link - list of virtual assistants targeting the classroom and the elderly New train candidate - tablet sales and install base information
Firefox OS Smartphone Sunset Smartphone Transition Wiki	Smartphone Commercial Sunset (Karen)	On Target	Smartphone Commercial Transition Wiki
	Code Transition (Julie)	On Target	Smartphone Code Transition Wiki Landed a patch to move the non-committed Gaia apps out of the primary build in order to reduce the surface area of builds & tests. What remains is just system/homescreen/settings/keyboard. Unit tests are not running at the moment due to an issue with Debug builds. Working to get things going again. MozApp API removed. Keyboard and Search bar are working. Now working on Settings app.
	Foxfooding (Jean)	On Target	F/OTA channel shut down last Friday. Notification on Discourse to community for reminder to take Mar 3 last Foxfood build. Mahe to work with Rel Eng to sunset existing update channels. Initial thought is to leave them in place, just turn off the jobs.
	Transition to Volunteer Community (Valentin)	On Target	B2G OS Transition Wiki Weekly updates are being posted on Discourse Volunteer contributors who are willing to help may participate in the weekly B2G OS project meetings. Not getting a lot of participation in the meetings yet, but videoconf. could be a challenge for some.
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