Connected Devices Weekly Update/2016-03-29

Program		Status	Notes
Vaani	Validation (Lindsay/Sandip)	On Target
Project Link	Validation Stage (Julie/Preeti)	On Target	Project Workweek in Mountain View with dev, product and UX members Product Reviewed thoughts on product differentiators and vision for Project Link Potential Partnership Evaluations Protonet (Zoe product): Initial intro meeting conducted in MV. Further product and technical review meetings scheduled for the week of March 28th. 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 Demos with Ari and Faramarz at the end of workweek 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. Michael Henretty is helping drive it.
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.
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
WADI	Thomas/Bill	On Target
Research	Lindsay	On Target
Project SmartHome	Maria/Liz	On Target
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
	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.
Other Announcements	David B	--