Re: Re: BCS and X10 Question

[Kevin Hawkins <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

g8kmh wrote:
> --- In xAP_developer@xxxxxxx, Kevin Hawkins <lists@u...>
> wrote:
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> I'd go with the no limit (on BSC ID
We will probably have recommended lengths and a requirement to support
some number of these as a minimum requirement to be xAP spec
'compliant'. Longer ones useable but may not be supported by all devices.

> )and be controversial - drop the
> source UID in the header completely.
> Is there an application that
> uses it?

Well I have two (the C-Bus board and a hardware 'mapper') and the Netiom
will be using it too.  Pretty certain it will be staying.
> So far I think the real world PIC applications have used
> another protocol on the wire or used a device with enough horsepower
> to parse addresses(PIC18F) - not sure about your Rabbit apps.
>
The PIC 18F's can struggle still and the Rabbit uses them, every bit of
space helps by being able to include other features .

K
>>> . Celsius doesn't have a degrees.......
>>>
>>>
>> Oh..really.... interesting - (and I am assume Centigrade and
>>
> Celsius and
>
>> probably Kelvin ?? are the same in this respect) you learn
>>
> something
>
>> every day...  K
>>
> Mmmm, well, actually it appears I'm confused :-( Whilst I'm used to
> using 20C as a temperature - the definitive answer seems to be it
> should be 20°C to avoid confusion with Coulombs... but Kelvin doesn't
> have the °. So maybe all xAP temperatures should be in Kelvin - 303K
> for me please!
>
> Lehane
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