Re: Re: Displays round the house - architecture...

["Frank Mc Alinden" <armagh@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Des
        Have you had a look at Can Bus
,its very popular in the industrial
field .Can have multi master and the Can bus chip apparently looks after
bus
collisions etc . Dave Mc Laughlin has done some project work on in .
Also
Microchip amongst others have Can bus controller chip,,,,,,,,,,,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Des Gibbons" <des@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 5:21 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: Displays round the house - architecture...


>
>
>
> > > Some random thoughts:
> > > An alternative approach is to let each *display* take the
decision
> > > about what to display locally - transmit message text(s) and
triggers
> > > to all devices. (Note that it is the trigger event, not the
trigger
> > > criteria that is transmitted to a display). I can see a
number of
> > > advantages in this approach:
> >
> > This is exactly the kind or architecture i want. I want smart IP
aware
> > Ethernet connected devices on a peer-to-peer network.
> >
>
>
> There is one big problem there, cost. By making each node smarter you
are
at
> least doubling the cost of the electronicss, for me a simple node on
rs485
> is the way to go.
>
> Cheers, Des.
>
>
>
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