Re: [FFADO-devel] Web-based device/version registration

[Jonathan W. <jw...@ph...>]

Hi Pieter

> >> In relation to the device registration, is it possible for you to put up a
> >> web-based registration page?  The reason I ask is that the PC I use for
> >> development is not directly connected to the net which makes it impossible
> >> for me to register my use with the website.  A web-based option would be
> >> helpful for people in my position.  Given that a lot of music-type people
> >> tend not to connect their music PC to the net I suspect I am not the only
> >> user (protential user) in this situation.
> > I didn't think about that, but it's a good idea.
> > 
> >> I realise that this requires some care to ensure it's not corrupted by
> >> robots, but asking for the vendor ID and device GUID and using these to
> >> verifiy the entry would probably foil most robots.
> > 
> > I'll think about how to implement this in an easy and safe way.
> 
> I added a registration form with CAPTCHA to the site.
> 
> http://www.ffado.org/?q=usage

Great, thanks for that.  I'll give it a go next week assuming I remember to
bring the correct strings with me. :-)

One thing I'll point out which may or may not be an issue is that with MOTU
devices the "model ID" doesn't reliably tell you the model.  Rather, it
includes details such as the firmware version, and it's entirely possible
for two different device types to have the same "model ID" as returned by
the device.  One practical upshot of this is that a given Traveler device
(for example) will have its model ID changed by a firmware upgrade.  For
MOTUs the model is differentiated by the "software unit version" field of
the config ROM.

I don't know what you use the model ID for but is this likely to cause a
problem for your statistical code?  If not then we'll just leave things as
they are, but if you want the model ID to indicate the actual model then we
may have to change the registration dialog to display the software unit
version in that field for MOTUs.  Yes, it's a special case and I hate
special cases, but if model ID is being used to identify different models I
can't see many other options.

Regards
  jonathan