RE: Total Telematics board

["Edward Pearson" <edward.mailgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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See StuartP's post. They use the same PIC but the Telematics board does not
use site player - so there is hope.

It'd be nice to get one to play with but right now my to-do list is too
long. I've just received my first batch of Dynalite kit but before I'm
allowed to play with that I've got a loft-space extension to do - currently
playing with big slabs of insulating board, not very high tech.

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From: Mark Harrison (Groups) [mailto:mph@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 24 March 2005 12:02
To: xAP_developer@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xAP_developer] Total Telematics board


Edward Pearson wrote:

> A flurry of messages recently concerning the Total Telematics single
> board computer on ukha_d.
>
> Looks like an ideal xAP host - but I note that it uses the same
> processor as the WebBrick so does that mean it has the same UDP issues
> that preculde it from xAP on UDP? Are the WebBrick's UDP problems
> hardware dependent or to do with the IP stack? Not sure if the stack
> is the same between the two. Mark, you maybe the most qualified to
> comment (but please keep your views on cars out of this thread!)
>
> Edward


The Siteplayer chip has a standard, closed-source, firmware that
implements the IP stack in firmware, only allowing access on two ports -
80 (http) and one other (number I forget, specific to them.)

As such, it can't listen for xAP requests :-(

In principle it might be possible to re-engineer the firmware, but it's
closed source, and the manufacturer has been notoriously resistant to
working with any project / manufacturer who might want to listen on
other ports :-(

M.