RE: NOW xAP / Outlook / PrioritisationWAS HomeDisplay - sound?

["Ray Barnett" <lists@xxxxxxx>]

Making it part of the header seems the wrong thing to do to me. It is specialising the message protocol for the specific purpose of sending information to an LCD display. Which seems a waste given you've just designed a nice generic protocol.

 

It strikes me that the next thing to do now is to start designing generic instruction sets or APIs for types of devices. Consequently "BELL" would become part of the "DISPLAY UNIT" API? I realise you have started off with a specific requirement for sending information from devices such as Outlook and Homevision to output devices like LCD units, but don't limit it - it's very exciting.

 

You've probably come up with them already, but ideas for extensible device APIs:

 

thermostat/generic sensor input

X10 gateway

automation gateway (generic homevision/comfort/X10?)

alarm gateway

web gateway

barcode reader input

 

and maybe a customisable processing gateway, so the end user can register which devices the gateway listens to, how it should format the information they send, and then which devices (LCD displays) it should output the information to, using which format. Thus the display units can be as dumb or intelligent as you like, and the end display doesn't necessarily then need to know how to display every possible bit of information. Nor would every input device need to anticipate all possible eventualities on how end users would like information formatted.

 

</EXCITED RANDOM RAMBLE>

 

Ray.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 August 2002 14:34
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: [ukha_d] NOW xAP / Outlook / PrioritisationWAS HomeDisplay - sound?

I can see how it might be a flag within the Outlook plugin. As such, it's up to the Outlook plugin developer (oh - that's me)

Are you saying it should be in the xAP-header as an optional item?



-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Poulton [mailto:swp@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 August 2002 14:29
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] HomeDisplay - sound?


> What would this be used for?
>
> I don't quite see it...

For example, you could use it to convey the fact that an e-mail has the
urgent flag set.

Gives the output plugins the ability to prioritise items to display if
they are queued ?

Really just thinking out aloud.

S


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Poulton [mailto:swp@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 15 August 2002 14:13
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] HomeDisplay - sound?
>
>
> Graham,
>
> Not really sure it's applicable, as thas down to the output plugin /
> device to decide.
>
> However it does raise the quesition of "Definition of important"
>
> I'd like to suggest an additional key pair :
>
> Of Priority, with a value from 0-15 , if not specified then priority is
> assumed to be 0.
>
> Mark : Does this make sense, and fit with the protocol ?
>
> Stuart
>
> On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 14:07, graham_howe wrote:
> > I know that we are trying to limit the scope, but how possible is it
> > to have the unit emit a sound (simple beep would be fine) when
> > an 'important' message is displayed.
> >
> > Graham
> >
>





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