Re: Mango M2M and xAP]

["mlohbihler" <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kevin,

Maybe it's a North American thing, but from the small sample set that
i have it doesn't appear that xAP has achieved very large adoption
yet. Please correct me if i'm wrong since i really have very little
data to go on.

Cheers,
m@



--- In xAP_developer@xxxxxxx, "mlohbihler" <ml@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Kevin,
>
> Thanks for the information. Regarding the license, if it is indeed GPL
> i unfortunately will not be able to use the code within Mango, since i
> am planning to have add-ons and such for which i would charge. If the
> developer (Patrick Lidstone, i believe) has not yet decided, then the
> LGPL is much more adoption friendly.
>
> Best regards,
> m@
>
>
> --- In xAP_developer@xxxxxxx, Kevin Hawkins <lists@> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi Matthew,
> >
> >   I had a quick look at your website and this looks very
interesting
> > ...  glad you are considering adding xAP support.
> >
> >    Probably the most prevalent and useful schema you will wish to
> > support is xAP 'BSC'  which is Basic Status and Control - it
handles
> (as
> > it says on the tin) most simple I/O involving binary, level and
text
> > based devices.
> >
>
http://www.xapautomation.org/wiki/index.php/Basic_Status_and_Control_Schema
> >
> > We will  be augmenting this with a 'TSC' schema (telemetry) very
> > shortly and an initial 'for comment' version is already available
at
> the
> > url below. TSC better handles sensor reporting data including
ranges,
> > real world units and negative values etc.
> >
>
http://www.xapautomation.org/wiki/index.php/xAP_Telemetry_Status_and_Control_Schema
> >
> >   There are a few hardware I/O devices supporting embedded xAP
BSC.
> > Two useful ones will be the Phaedrus xAP Netiom which is
essentially
> > mostly digital I/O, including serial  but has 4 analogue inputs.
Of
> > recent date the opnone which is a 1-wire interface, shortly there
will
> > be a serial version too that supports X10 and another for SMS
> messaging.
> >  There is also an embedded C-Bus controller supporting BSC but
you
> > probably won't have the hardware to support that.  If you are
able to
> > work with software applications there are also several other
useful
> > applications around using BSC that could help too.
> >
> > http://www.phaedrusltd.com/pages/html/netiom-xap.html
> > http://www.opnode.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=home
> >
> >    Any questions - just ask away and once again ... I believe the
> > existing Java libraries are also released under GPL and there
have
been
> > a couple of tweaks to them recently ... but I'll leave that to be
> > confirmed by those involved.....   Once again welcome and I look
> forward
> > to seeing xAP support within Mango M2M
> >
> >   Cheers Kevin
> >
> >  mlohbihler wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm the primary developer of Mango M2M
> > > (http://mango.serotoninsoftware.com).
I'm considering adding xAP
> > > support to the product, but first wanted to check on the
license for
> > > the Java implementation. Mango is licensed as open source
under GPL.
> > >
> > > Also, if anyone knows of something good that could serve as
an xAP
> > > evaluation kit (i.e. real hardware for testing the Mango/xAP
> > > integration), i would appreciate any suggestions.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Matthew Lohbihler
> > > Serotonin Software
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Yahoo! Groups Links
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>