Re: hbeats and virtual devices

[Gregg Liming <gregg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Harrison (Groups) wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 16:34 -0400, Gregg Liming wrote:
>
>
>>(1) do I need to make each "virtual device" listen on
it's own
>>(separate
>>from all others) ephemeral port and send a heartbeat to register it
>>w/
>>the hub?, or
>>
>>
>
>That's what we do with xAPHomeVision, that has the same problem.
>
>
>
I was afraid that would be the answer.

>However, it may be worth waiting a week and see whether xAP 1.2.1 sorts
>this (as I believe it should for xAPHV).
>
>xAP 1.2.1 is currently at "proposal" stage, and the change is
that UIDs
>get much longer, allowing huge hierarchies of "things" to
appear within
>a single xAP device, by removing the 254-sub-device limit.
>
>Assuming that this gets agreed, we'll be moving xAPHV over to _NOT_
>using Virtual devices, but usings LOTS of sub-devices.
>
>scentium.xaphv.myhouse:x10a.14
>scentium.xaphv.myhouse:input.1
>etc, etc, etc
>
>
Right--so, by waiting I not only don't have to create a bunch of
"hacked" code just to be removed later but also don't need to
worry
about all of the source/target name changes.  Definitely worth the wait.

Gregg