[xAP] xAP display - Brief update, Code & Pics

["PatrickLidstone" <patrickl@xxxxxxx>]

Following on from the meteor threads, I've put together a xAP 
compliant plug-in for Meteor - for both win/32 and Linux, and have a 
working first cut of a xAP display.

What does this mean in practice? Plug a meteor box into either your 
linux box or windows box, run up the Meteor-xAP software, and any 
device on your LAN can potentially receive caller id data as it 
arrives. I have a standalone display sitting on my LAN which picks 
this data up; it could equally well be captured by Homeseer (updated 
plug-in coming soon), a webserver, TIVO or whatever. There is no 
practical limit on the number of devices which can use the 
information sent out, and they all receive it at exactly the same 
time.

Both the source and executables are available from my website 
(patrick.lidstone.net/ha). I'm hoping that others will take these 
examples and use them as the basis for further xAP development.

Getting TIVO to display the xAP message should be straightforward 
with Stuart's xAP Perl toolkit.

Also up on the website is the Rabbit source code for the display 
controller, and a couple of (not great) pics of the display in 
action. 

The display is configurable via its own on-board web server. Once 
configured, it displays any xAP compliant message it is told too. The 
display is also mirrored to the webserver (so if anyone has a rabbit 
but lacks a display, they can still play with it ;-)

Justin, how about integrating xAP into your Nokia SMS efforts to make 
it "open"? I'll do the same for my Linux SMS engine.

Patrick

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