Re: [Nxtcommand-developers] icommand, some changes and SVN write privs

[Brian B. <bba...@mt...>]

Hi Steve,

Okay, you are all signed up. I guess some of the main things we want to 
happen with iCommand are:

- Improve accuracy of Motor.forward/backward(tacho) and 
SyncMotors.left/right(tacho)

- Enable remaining System commands: IO-Map Access commands, openWriteLinear, 
openReadLinear, openWriteData, openAppendData, boot, bluetoothFactoryReset 
message. (not urgent, but might open up new possibilities for us with 
writing to the LCD screen, etc...)

- Fix up GUI for NXTDirect. Make better control panel with simple 
motor/sensor commands, battery polling, keepalive. (Chueng is working on 
this)

- Add USB support via NXTCommUSB

- Multi-Brick support? (I don't know anyone with 2 NXT's so it's hard to 
find someone to work on this)

There's also a readme file with "future improvements". Let us know what 
interests you.
BTW You will have to sign up for the developers list to get in on these 
discussions:
 https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nxtcommand-developers

- Brian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Prior" <sp...@ge...>
To: "Brian Bagnall" <bba...@mt...>
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 11:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Nxtcommand-developers] icommand, some changes and SVN write 
privs


> sprior913 is my Sourceforge id.  It turns out the static access problem
> was my using sv head for the library and the last release for the samples, 
> but I'll see what else I should muck with.
>
> BTW, the other home automation piece I've been playing with lately
> is using the Asterisk open source PBX (running as part of the Trixbox
> distribution) interfacing with the rest of smarthome.  One piece
> already in place is the ability to dial a phone number into the system
> which then retrieves a customized traffic report (filtered by my system to 
> only show incidents which affect my commute) runs it through text
> to speech over the phone.  I was also playing this weekend with writing
> Java code which glues Asterisk to smarthome such that I could turn on/off 
> devices through voice phone menus.
>
> How long were you with IBM?  Where did you work?  I was in various places 
> in Westchester and Poughkeepsie NY.
>
> Steve
>
> Brian Bagnall wrote:
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> Welcome. Your contributions would be greatly valued. Please send your 
>> Sourceforge ID and I'll sign you up for Subversion access, etc...
>>
>> BTW The home automation looks cool.
>>
>> - Brian
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Prior" <sp...@ge...>
>> To: <nxt...@li...>
>> Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 8:34 PM
>> Subject: [Nxtcommand-developers] icommand, some changes and SVN write 
>> privs
>>
>>
>>> I'm just getting to the entry in my TODO list which is program to the
>>> Mindstorms NXT from Java and came across icommand.
>>>
>>> I checked out the current SVN head and found there are a number of
>>> warnings displayed when using Eclipse with most warnings on (mostly
>>> unread private fields) and some warnings about static references to
>>> non-static methods (this is more serious).
>>>
>>> I was wondering if I would need to be authorized with write privs to SVN
>>> or is it just open access?  I can't say I've got a huge amount of time
>>> I can spend on icommand, but I'd like to comment out the things which
>>> are declared but never used (they can be uncommented once they are
>>> useful) and maybe take a quick crack at the static/non-static issue.
>>>
>>> By way of introduction, like Brian I'm an IBM alum and now work in the
>>> financial sector where I've been doing mostly Java for 5 years now
>>> (before that I had been doing mostly C++ for about 12 years).  For
>>> my personal programming fun I've been integrating various things into
>>> a home automation system I wrote (more on that at
>>> http://smarthome.geekster.com).  I think it would fun to use Java to
>>> control a NXT robot from the rest of my system and contribute to
>>> icommand in the process.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Steve
>>>
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