Re: New embedded controller: opn-max

[Kevin Hawkins <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is really exciting Daniel - great stuff ... and the even better
news is that I alredy have a NSLU2 that I bought a while back so I'm
keen to give this a try and to provide you as much feedback as I can.

Cheers Kevin

Daniel Berenguer wrote:
> Hi xAP community!
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> I'm proud to introduce opn-max ? a new generation of embedded network
> controllers aimed to work as high-level xAP masters (good
> introduction, don't you think so?).
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> http://www.opnode.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=opn-max
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> This controller is based on a Linksys NSLU2 and only needs an external
> drive (memory stick or hard disk) to store applications, web pages and
> custom files. The NSLU2 typically costs less than 80 ? (VAT apart).
> Just add the price of a memory stick, install the necessary software
> into it and? voilà, you have an opn-max.
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> Opn-max, as any other opnode, is an open source design. This means
> that you can download the source code from sourceforge (not yet?) in
> case you want to contribute to this project. This also means that you
> can buy your NSLU2 from your local supplier and then convert it into
> an opn-max controller for free.
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> I'm going to need a lot of help to fine-tune opn-max so those
> volunteers? be ready to spend some time on the project because it has
> plenty of features:
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>  - xAP BSC interface (I'll try to add support for other schemas in a
> near future)
>  - Web server for configuring and controlling opn-max
>  - Event manager
>  - Perl scripting with access to endpoints
>  - Customizable web PHP pages with access to endpoints
>  - SQLite database. Possibility of saving endpoint values into SQLite
> tables
>  - Web graphs and charts
>  - SSH server for administration and installation purposes
>  - FTP server
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> These features are already implemented and opn-max is operational.
> However, so many functionalities need a deep validation process in
> real applications. I'm just running opn-max on my workbench and my
> current requirements in terms of home automation are pretty limited.
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> Moreover, Alicia, my personal web developer, has been very busy these
> months so she couldn't help me on this project as she wanted. This
> means that some web pages could need some rework. Anyway, we'll see
> this during the beta-tests.
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> During the next weeks I'll try to fix some minor bugs and prepare the
> necessary documentation to guide the first beta-testers during the
> installation of opn-max on their Slugs. I also have to upload opn-max
> to opnode's sourceforge repository and create a yahoo group for the
> opnode project.
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> Regards,
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> Daniel.
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