RE: Strange Viewer issue

["Kevin Hawkins" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Booth [mailto:lists@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 02 June 2004 14:22
> To: xAP_developer@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xAP_developer] Strange Viewer issue
>
> On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 14:06:49 +0100, "Kevin Hawkins"
> <lists@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Now what we see here is the UID changing correctly for
> each xAPp and
> >ending in '00' as it should but the port remains the same
> - what issues
> >could that cause ?? ..and particularly how could these
> upset a remote hub perhaps ??
> >What about a local hub ??
>
> Remotely I don't think a Hub should care as the message
> doesn't originate locally, so it won't connect, it'll just
> get forwarded. Is that fair?

Yes - that's how I saw it too the remote hub just forwards it and should
apply no intelligence at all.

>
> Locally ... this is a feature that xFx Hubs already
> support (multiple devices on the same port). James and I
> have already been through this one, if it's the thing I'm
> thinking of. I can't recall the implementation details of
> this tweakette anymore though.

Hmm - a little worried here - are you saying that xFx hubs are different to
the spec and handle this as a special case ?? Meaning that the HomeSeer
usage might break other hubs as they do not have this tweak ??  Actually I
think all that is required is for the hub to forward a message once on a
broadcast or loopback address to the port listed - of course you may have
had to stop the message being forwarded to the same port several times -
maybe that was the tweak you mean ?? Without this duplicate messages would
appear.


K