Re: Re: Rabbit and DHCP

["UKHA" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

>
>This is similar to what I have working on the bench today...

Perhaps I should stop now and leave it to the experts :)

>
>I have a PIC with temperature, humidity, light, sound and (sub-cm) 
>movement with a serial xAP interface -- very low cost, low component
>count -- one per room is the aim. Multiple instances of this PIC 
>board can then be interfaced to the rabbit PCB, 

So you wire multiple boards back to a rabbit controller? I was
wondering
about this earlier and thought it best (imlho) that rabbits are relatively
cheap so 1 per detector/sensor board would be ok, removing any problems
with long cables... Like I say, I don;t know much about electronics at all
really, so I'm happy to accept that you are right...

The other option I was looking at was siteplayer but I think the rabbit
is
probably the better choice in terms of flexability...

> which also supports IR send/receive 

Is that IR over tcpip ??!!! If it is it sounds interesting...

>and provides a bridge to xAP over TCP/IP and cat5 
>plus local web server. 

I was just thinking about a simple web page with all the data
that was just 'polled' once every 15-20 minutes... meaning that it
could go into any sort of environment and uses could browse to
the page rather than using xAP or xPL .. but I understand why
you're doing that!!! :)

>These components all work on a distributed 
>basic, so that if one or more components fail, the rest continue to
>operate as best they can, without (necessarily) having to rely on a
>single central controller.
>

I'd be interested in more info on this, have you added it to your site?

Andy

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