Re: New to the list- intro

["Patrick Lidstone" <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Ake Hedman" <akhe@b...> wrote:
> 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.

Hello Ake,

It sounds like your projects overlap with a couple already going here
with very similar objectives. You might want to take a look at xAP.
Like your project, it is aimed at providing ubiquitous control of low
power embedded devices and upwards to PCs. It is network media
independent - running over narrowband RF, RS232, RS485, ethernet and
802.11b. Like your project, this is an opensource initiative, and has
been adopted by a number of commercial developers. Take a look - you
might find it interesting. You can find out more at
www.xapautomation.org. There is also a dedicated Yahoo mailing list
for the same.

Patrick

(PS. In the interests of balance, I should also mention that the xAP
group splintered a while back, and a group called xpl spun off -
although being heavily involved in xAP, I have little more to say
about this).