Re: More xpl communication problems

["Mal Lansell" <mal.lansell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No I didn't have a hub running - because I thought that there was no
way I'd have to have a hub on every device, especially since some of
them will be low powered embedded devices.

However, you've answered that by talking about binding directly to
the port and being limited to a single xPL app - which is fine for
what I had in mind for the PDA (Pronto style xPL remote).

It does beg one question, though.  Why the need for more than one
hub?  Doesn't the heartbeat broadcast supply all the information
required to establish the link between a device and a single hub?
After all, if the hub sent the config.list request to the IP and port
I gave it in the heartbeat, everything would have worked despite
being on different IPs.  I know there is probably a good reason (and
I'll probably kick myself when I hear it) - I'm just curious to know
what it is ;-)

Regards

Mal





--- In ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx, "John B" <home-automation@j...>
wrote:
> Hi Mal,
>
> Do you have a hub running on your other PC?
> xPLHal has a built-in hub, so everything will work fine on the same
PC as xPLHal without needing to install a hub.
>
> However, if you want to run xPL apps on any other PCs, you'll need
to install a stand-alone xPL hub.
>
> On your PDA, you may want to bind directly to port 3865 (rathern
than to port 5000+) as this will avoid the need for a hub, but will
mean that only one xPL app can run on the PDA at once.
>
> HTH,
>
> John
>
>
> ---- Original Message ----
> From: Mal Lansell <mal.lansell@n...>
> Sent: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 18:26:08 -0000
> To: ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx
>
> > I've been playing with xpl-enabling my Pocket PC.  Using the same
> > code I've been using up for my X10 rf receiver service, I've
tried to
> > get the PDA to run through the configuration process with xplHal.
> >
> > The config.app message is sent received successfully by xplHal,
which
> > in return sends the expected config.list and config.current
> > requests.  However, the PDA doesn't receive anything.
> >
> > I wrote a quick test app to send a message to the PDA from the
PC,
> > and the PDA did pick that up, so I'm sure the network and the PDA
> > code is working properly.
> >
> > As another test, I installed my rf receiver service, the CM12
service
> > and xplRioNet onto a different PC to xplHal, and I got the same
> > result with each of them - xplHal picks up their heartbeats but
none
> > of them appear to receive the requests that xplHal sends.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Mal
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