[mh] xPL stuff

[Eloy P. <pe...@ch...>]

Hi Lieven,

I need to interface some wireless sensors to my network. The wireless 
sensors are AVR-based sensors that I've built. They use the RFM12B chip, 
just as the JeeNodes do.

After looking around for a few options on how to this, it's looking like 
using xPL might be the best way to go about this. In the past you've 
mentioned that you are using xPL for exactly the same thing so I was 
wondering if you can give me a hand. Documentation on how to do this 
does not seem to be easy to find...

My understanding is that I need to:

1. Grab https://github.com/hollie/xpl-perl and get it installed on my 
server. I understand I must use your xpl-perl instead of 
https://github.com/beanz/xpl-perl because beanz's xpl-perl does not have 
the JeeNodes support that you added.

2. Have the equivalent of a JeeLink connected to my server via serial 
port and running xpl-jeenode/sketch/gateway/gateway.pde. Of course, I 
must tweak the code in loop() to account for my own sensors. gateway.pde 
will receive the wireless messages and send them through the serial port 
to my server.

3. Then I need to somehow run an xPL daemon that will talk to my JeeLink 
and that will receive the messages from the wireless sensors through the 
serial port, convert them to xPL messages, and finally inject them into 
my IP network. Is this daemon xpl-jeenodes from the bin/ directory of 
the xpl-perl source code tree?

4. And finally, I need something that will consume the xPL messages 
injected by the daemon running in (3). I think I'll be using MisterHouse 
for this but I'll worry about that once I have xPL messages flowing 
through my network.

Am I missing a step?

And finally, are https://github.com/hollie/xpl-perl and 
xpl-jeenode/sketch/gateway/gateway.pde the latest versions?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Cheers,

Eloy Paris.-