Re: [LHA-misc] Help - So many linux HA options

[Lee N. <le...@ba...>]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, HGu...@ao... scribbled,
> 
> I see the CM-11A a major need so lets start there,
> Is Dan Lanciani's code GPL? If not would he be interested ?  The X10d works 
> pretty well (compiles and installs with no problems) but needs Docs, 
> makefile, and install scripts (maybe an RPM too). If it's GPL it would be 
> easy to add these things and finish that off.

Has anybody talked to Dan about LHA and his code?  

> 
> So if I were to want to add a new interface I would use the same basic code 
> as from X10d and use a sockets interface? With some good comments maybe Dan 
> Lanciani's code could serve as a prototype for other devices.

Both Neil(HCS) and Mark(CPUXA) have working code similiar to Dan's.  At this
point, I think we need to come up with a code base (which Neil trying to
work on).  Kill some of that rework.

> Ok now what about Karl Denninger's HomeDaemon? It also talks directly to some 
> devices and uses Shared memory (don't care much for shared memory, but guess 
> it works). It needs to be able to know about talk to the other controllers 
> through sockets. As you said, that program need to be changed. 

Karl's software uses X10d and could be patched to work with the others.
Again, it would make Karl's life easier if he didn't have to worry about
the particulars of each daemon, just the functionality of each device.

> As far as GUI, I kind of like the idea of doing it in JAVA, but Tk/TCl will 
> work find too. Seems like the GUI needs to talk to the HomeDaemon though 
> because the Homedaemon understands device names (alias's).

I'm not a particular fan of Java, but why not just a simple browser interface
written in php/perl/html.  That way all those smart web enabled appliance's
will be able to control the rest of the house (and so to the Maytag repairman).

-lee

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