RE: xAP - a lightweight Home Automation protocol

Kevin

Where does the UK HomeAutomation group hang out ?? - I looked at the xap
website but could not see any general stuff.

I'm a certified C-Bus integrator so would be interested to find out what
people are doing with it

I've also got YAC running on my Slimp - had to buy an old Pace modem to get
it to work though :)




Dean.

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Kevin Hawkins [mailto:lists-e3yg4gySTpQCqOQrDF6SL1pr/1R2p/[email protected]]
  Sent: 16 February 2003 18:25
  To: [email protected]
  Subject: [slimp3-dev] xAP - a lightweight Home Automation protocol


        As an offshoot of a need to exchange information between many
  disparate devices in a typical Home Automation environment the UK
  HomeAutomation group has evolved a splinter group to create an 'open'
  protocol called xAP. This is a lightweight UDP broadcast protocol aimed at
  exchanging information between devices like displays, security systems,
  keypads, IR, heating and climate control, X10, C-Bus Lighting, audio
  systems, CallerID, Video recorders, etc etc.
        The protocol is very easy to implement and device connectors can be
  coded by the typical hobbyist programmer. This was one of the goals cf
more
  complex solutions like UPNP. If anyone is looking for a potential solution
  as to how to send information around their own networks in a way that many
  different devices can intercept and use then I encourage you to take a
look
  at www.xapautomation.org . SDK's and sample code all available gratis.
        I have posted this here at the suggestion of Dean because the SliMP3
  has become a firm favourite of the UKHA community (over a hundred users)
and
  xAP support for SliMP3 would be a much desired feature. To be able to
  support control of the player via xAP messages and more importantly for
the
  SliMP3 to provide realtime 'Status' broadcasts detailing current track,
next
  in playlist, IR code received etc would be a really neat feature.
  Additionally the SliMP3 could be used as a display device for all this
other
  information, allowing the SliMP3 to provide many HA control (through IR)
and
  display features.
        I am aware there is already a YAC implementation for SliMP3 and here
  we already have a xAP display connector for SliMP3 (using the http api)
for
  CallerID, email, clock  and temperature display etc but unfortunately not
a
  lot of Perl experience. If anyone would be interested in helping with any
  SliMP3 Perl based experience please get in touch - otherwise it's a bit of
  bedtime reading of my new Perl book.

  Contact address..... kevin at xapautomation.org

  Cheers Kevin




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