Note

This project is discontinued. Serveral project have been created to continues the HIH story.

• achihui [Project] (https://github.com/alvachien/achihui) The UI layer of the application;
• achihapi [Project] (https://github.com/alvachien/achihapi) The API layer which encapsulate the Web API for the operation inside HIH;
• acidserver [Project] (https://github.com/alvachien/acidserver) The Identity Server which provides the authorization control used by HIH; It's a common project which also used by other project ,like AC gallery [Project] (https://github.com/alvachien/acgallery)

Home Info. Hub (Website Version)

Home Information Hub, have two abbreviation terms: HIH or Home Info. Hub. HIH targets to build the warehouse for all necessary information among all family members. Key components are:

• Finance trace. This feature allows you record (nearly) all the finance activities, and provides the reports for you to review the healthy of the family, such as the balance report, cash journal, etc;
• Learning trace. This features enable you to record the target for each family member's learning targets. Learning is a habit of self growth, no matter the ages of the family members.
• Libraries (Under design phrase).

HIH is expected to run on a HTTP/HTTPS server, which shall be easily access by all workstations/mobile devices. As it name indicates, HIH shall be used inside the family network. So, ideally, it runs on a NAS or Family Server with HTTP/PHP enabling.

What's HIH

HIH, the abbreviation of Home Information Hub, is a warehouse storing the necessary information among all family memebers. For version 0.5, it supports the Finance Traces and Learning Traces. The detail explaination of the modules listed below.

General part

• Multiple languages supported. Embedded languages are: English and Simplified Chinese
• Dynamic Themes supported

Finance trace

• Accounts, like Cash, Creditcard, etc;
• Documents, the finance activities go by the document;
• Multiple Currencies Enablement;
• Reporting, like the Balance Sheet, etc;
• Controlling perspective: Control Center and Order, the reporting also available here;
• Downpayment;
• Installment;
• Asset

Learing trace

• Learn Object, identify the detail to learn;
• Learn History, histories information for the learning;
• Learn Award;
• Learn Plan (with Comparison to real learn history), setup a plan, and execute it with comparison;

Library trace (to do)

• Books, stores books information, including the paper book edition, Kindle edition, or other e-book part;
• Videos, stores the video part;
• Software, stores the available software information;

Who needs HIH

If you have more than two computers, no doubtly that you will feel it's hard to synchronze the data between them. Now days, it becomes more and more critical when the mobile devices are used widely to store the pieces of information.

It's quite ture that the cloud solution, like Apple iCloud, Microsoft OneDrive gets popular recent days for the storage purpose, but it still cannot solve the issues for the structured data - overwritting files always be the last approach.

In that case, HIH provides the opportunity to share the information among the intranet (though it's quite easy to convert it into Internet part). And, for the family usage, the finance part the learning part coming as the first part.

How to Install

Please check out the following link detail: [Installation] (https://github.com/alvachien/hih/wiki/Installation)

What's the design?

The design page indicates the thoughts which I put into HIH. [Design] (https://github.com/alvachien/hih/wiki/Design)

Development History

Current Version: Web 0.5.*;

Built with JavaScript Frontend(AngularJS, Bootstrap, Angular UI, TinyMCE, etc) and PHP Backend.

HIH, Website Version

1. Version 0.1 to web 0.3, Using: jQuery, jEasyUI, no public release;
2. Version 0.4, switch to Angular JS, Boostrap, no public release;
3. Version 0.5 [Link] (https://github.com/alvachien/hih/releases/tag/V0.5), initial version, released on Sep 11 2015;
4. Version 0.5.2 [Link] (https://github.com/alvachien/hih/releases/tag/V0.5.2), with Finance Report ready, released on Oct 10 2015;
5. Version 0.5.3 [Link] (https://github.com/alvachien/hih/releases/tag/0.5.3), with Learn Plan ready, released on Nov 3 2015;
6. Version 0.5.4 [Link] (https://github.com/alvachien/hih/releases/tag/V0.5.4), with Down Payment ready, released on Dec 18 2015;
7. Version 0.5.5 [Link] (https://github.com/alvachien/hih/releases/tag/V0.5.5), with Lib/Book ready, released on Dec 31 2015;

HIH, Desktop Version

1. Version 1.0, named as PIH, built with MFC, Visual C++;
2. Version 2.0 - 4.0, ....
3. Version 4.0, named changed as HIH, built with .NET, Visual Stuido;
4. Version 5.0, built with .NET/WPF, Visual Studio;

Credits

See more in the About menu;

Contact me

Alva Chien | 钱红俊

A programmer, and a certificated Advanced Photographer.

Contact me:

1. Via mail: alvachien@163.com. Or,
2. [Check my flickr] (http://www.flickr.com/photos/alvachien).