Re: Re: xPLHubs (again!)

["Malcolm Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "John B" <home-automation@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 7:30 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_xpl] Re: xPLHubs (again!)


>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mal Lansell [mailto:mlansell@xxxxxxx]
>> Sent: 15 March 2005 00:12
>> To: ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx
>> Subject: [ukha_xpl] Re: xPLHubs (again!)
>>
>>
>>
>> In general I'd agree with your points, but in this particular
>> case, I don't think that cross platform issues figure at all.
>
> But surely it would make sense to have a common file format that all
> hubs would use - regardless of which platform they were running on.
>

Well the format is the same, in that the same code will read or write it
whatever the platform - just the byte ordering ends up different in the
finished file.

snip 8<

>
> Agreed - I can't see a situation where extra data would need to be
> stored unless there are big changes to the way in which hubs operate.
> However, if we go with CSV, we can simply state that any extra fields,
> after the 3 that are specified, can simply be ignored by any hub that
> doesn't understand them.
>

Well it's easy enough to use CSV, so I don't have a problem with it.  Tom's
suggestion seemed quite reasonable, although you may as well put the date
formating items in to make it truly human readable - which I think means
we're back to where we started with your original suggestion of

50000,5,2005-03-13 15:04:44
50001,9,2005-03-13 15:09:31

Etc.

:-)

Mal



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