Gui simulation for smart home application

Question

hi guys! im looking for suggestion in which GUI tool is most appropriate for me to use in implementing my study. im using java language. i would like the graphics to simulate a house in which graphical changes apply without user inputs from mouse or keyboards. my user input is in the form of sms. thanks in advance guys. im hoping to animate it or simulate a smart home through the conditions i had set in my program. thnaks!

Answer 1

Your questions is very underspecified. I will assume that you are at the early stages of producing a hand-rolled home automation programs, you probably need:

1. an environment to let you test the core logic of the system (i.e. "If the system is in state X and I issue command Y, what does it actually do, and will I lose the contents of my freezer?")
2. an environment to let you test the SMS communications module
3. you may need a demo mode to show prospecitve customers what it does (this is my best guess at what is being requested here)

Now (3) could fill in for (1), but is a lot more programming effort, so from the start you probably want a simple text interface to do (1).

In general, you almost certainly want a modular system: a core logic system supported by at least two input models (SMS and keyboard), three output models (text debug, graphical demo, and control-line/wireless signals for the actual hardware), and various ancillary stuff (configuration reading, saved state handling). Come to think of it, since you probably need a way to probe the current state of the system, you should make the saved state and condition probe code share a single framework as well.