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25 Aug 2007: Nintendo DS homebrew: Jabber client for Home Automation

Last month I read a blog entry from hadess via Fedora Planet about hardware to let you run homebrew applications on Nintendo DS. There is a ton of homebrew applications available, but as of yet no jabber client.

My home automation system is all based around XMPP, with a standard Jabber server to which all the home automation systems connect to share messages. I wrote it like this so that it would be easy to just take some existing Jabber client for a platform and be able to come up with a nice looking front end with minimal effort.

I found Iksemel, a portable C XML parser and protocol library that looked perfect, and it only took a couple of hours to have it ported on the NDS, and a couple more hours to get it working with PAlib for wifi. It's not a generic Jabber chat client, but it wouldn't take too much work to make it into one (although I didn't bother with encryption support so you won't be able to use it with Google talk servers for example). Anyway, the code might save someone a few hours, so I've made the source available.

• dsham-0.1.tar.gz source code
• GPG signature

I've included a copy of Iksemel, so if you want to build this yourself all you need is a working development environment: devkitpro and PAlib. This still needs some work, I need to integrate a library to handle displaying images from the network (when the phone rings it can pop up the callers picture or a streaming picture from one of the cameras when the doorbell is pushed)

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