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["Ake Hedman" <akhe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear UKHA list members,

My name is Ake Hedman and I am new to the UKHA list and i'm not even a UK
resident... I have however been interested in HA stuff for many many years
(and have worked in UK for some months... ;-) so I hope that you can
accept me on the list.

At the moment I work with a protocol for HA use that I called VSCP (Very
Simple Control Protocol). VSCP is, as the name says, a very simple
protocol. It is uP oriented and CAN oriented. It is very easy to implement
on a PIC/AVR or similar processor that have CAN support. All the
development is open. Software is released under GNU and all hardware is
open and free to use for both commercial and non commercial projects. In
fact the first module is on its way. The drawings for the PCB was sent to
the manufacturer yesterday. My company will sell modules, kits and PCB's
at our online store at http://www.eurosource.se/catalog.
As everything is
open you also can make your own modules from the available data.

The first module I will release is a low cost temperature/humidity module
that will report temperature and humidity on regular intervals. This
information can be used by other VSCP modules in the EDA
(Event-Decision-Action) manner (RDA old project at
http://eda.sourceforge.net which
is carried on by VSCP) to do something
(perform an Action) when a message comes in (display information, drive a
relay, sound an alarm etc). Hopefully I will be able to release other
modules after this first module is ready. The interface to a node is very
easy to grasp. The node has an id. The node has some predefined and
application  register that can be read/written much as the interface for
an IC. The node can send Events. The node can receive Events. Many nodes
have a solid decission matrix which tells how it should react (what Action
it should Decide take) when en Event comes in. Some noeds have a decision
matrix that can be altered.

To make it possible for many applications to talk to one or several VSCP
segment (CAN, TCPIP, RS-232 etc) I have written a daemon called canald.
This stands for CAN Abstraction Layer and is a simple interface to CAN.
The canal daemon is written without any hooks to VSCP and is therefore
also a very useful CAN simulation/debug tool. VSCP functionality is built
on top of this daemon. A beta version of the daemon for the Windows
platform is available in  the can CVS. As soon as I there is some
documentation and some hours left to finalize the Linux port I will do a
formal release.

If you are interested in this project please go to
http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=53560
and subscribe to the list of
your choice.

If you are interested technical aspects the latest VSCP spec. is always
available at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53560.

If you are interested in active work on the VSCP/CANALD/CAN project you
are welcome.

More info about my humble person is available at
http://www.eurosource.se/akhe

Best Regards
Ake Hedman

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Ake Hedman (YAP - Yet Another Programmer)
eurosource, Brattbergavägen 17, 820 50 LOS, Sweden
Phone: 46 657 413430 Cellular: 46 730 533146
Company home: http://www.eurosource.se     
Kryddor/Te/Kaffe:
http://www.brattberg.com
Personal homepage: http://www.eurosource.se/akhe