Re: UPnP in home automation and the technology trend?

["Dean Roddey" <droddey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The othe big gotcha is that UPnP is really only useful for PC level
products, or fairly powerful smaller devices. It's a large and complex
standard that depends on a lot of high level functinality like having to
have a full XML parser and a few other XML related technologies. That's just
not going to happen in a light switch any time soon probably. So it's not
very universal due to pure size and complexity if for no other reason.

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Dean Roddey
Chairman/CTO, Charmed Quark Systems
www.charmedquark.com

"Dave Houston" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> If you delve deeper you will find Intel and Microsoft are promoting
> _DIFFERENT_ UPnP "standards". Intel initially supported the same UPnP
> standard as Microsoft and most others but then pulled out and started its
> own proprietary version of UPnP. Whatever it's about, it's not about
> standardization. I think it should be renamed as nqUPnP (not quite
> Universal
> Plug and Play).
>