VSCP is part of the Postscape IoT Open source award again this year. We are very proud to be part of this again. Vote here. You can vote once a day.
Also UIMagician made by one well know VSCP developer is also nominated this year.
Will talk about VSCP and IoT on the with the best, Paris conference 16/1 2016.
The world is «many», not «one», and it will always will be that way. Just as different cars drive on the same side of the road and adhear to the same rules, protocols and solutions in IoT and M2M must come to understandings that make them work beside each other and togheter. What we see today is efforts on standardizing the «roads» while we really need to standardize on how we «travel» on them. This is really no different then what HTML did for hypertext in the past and which made the world wide web a success. To take an example a temperature sent from a device must always be understood by a receiving device to be useful for it, which means it’s coding and its unit must be coded in a standard way. Obvious to us all maybe, but not something the IoT/M2M standardizing groups work with today.VSCP have solution for this and for device discovery, uniform configuration, self contained and serverless functionality, firmware updates and is free and open and will stay that way. It works equally well if commnication is through a cable or over the air and it makes sure that the sender and the receiver understands each other. In this talk I will pinpoint the problems and the trenfs and present one possible solution to the problem.
In our house VSCP is used to control some lights that should be on when it’s dark. Surprised today when they light up at about 14:30. Had to check if the calculations are right and they are.
We are heading against midwinter which will take place at the 22 of December. It will be darker still here in the middle of Sweden’s outbacks. But at least some light opposite the northern parts of Sweden. But after the 22’nd we all head against the light again. That is what X-mas is all about.
A German guy just started a new VSCP project recently. Will be nice to follow.
The second release candidate of the VSCP & Friends Sodium release for Windows is available for test here https://sourceforge.net/projects/m2m/files/VSCP%20Software/1.1.0%20Sodium/
Please test to install and report any problems.
Cheers
/Ake
The first release candidate of the VSCP & Friends Sodium release for Windows is available for test here https://sourceforge.net/projects/m2m/files/VSCP%20Software/1.1.0%20Sodium/
Please test to install and report any problems.
Cheers
/Ake
Not much info other than links recently on this channel but that does not mean that noting is happening. As usual there is +16h/day passes here at the Paradise of the Frog AB and we are working hard to get the Sodium release of VSCP out. YES it has been delayed and this is due to some findings in the serial driver which lead to some other changes in there to. Took some time but are fixed now. It is an amazing and useful driver now I must tell you.
At the moment we are adding some last BIG things and then a release candidate will be available for download.
One of the big questions at the moment is to decide if Lua or Javascripts should be used for the internal script engine in the VSCP daemon. If you have thoughts on this feel free to comment. This same scripting support will eventually also come to VSCP Works. But this is a life decision. Not easy to change after a decision is taken.
Why a scripting engine in VSCP daemon? Well with it you can execute a scripts when an event is received. Thus doing a lot of dynamic things or just if/then handling or simple things like OpenHAB for example do. If we ever get some active UX development this can be extended to a drag and drop interface to make things happen. A bit like node red if you like.
On the hardware side three boards still is in the pipe. Accra, Vilnius needs some final code and are next in line. Frankfurt Eth prototypes are on the way to us at this very moment and will be done after that. Kelvin 1-wire Frankfurt BT will come next. And I can tell you we have a lot more brewing.
So now you know that we are still working here in the north of Sweden. We will be back with more info soon.
Can’t promise you fame and fortune. But it can be nice to just be part of something that will change the world.
There is a lot to do of course. It always is. But bindings to different languages (also to languages not in the list) is something that we really need and gives other people a chance to do great things. Yes we can do with libs. that is not based on the VSCP helper lib and interface the REST or the websocket interface of the VSCP daemon.
There is a list here with things that we think it would be nice to see. But there is million of other things you can contribute with. Its fin. Its valuable. Its a world changer.
JOIN US!
Salvo Musumeci has made Python bindnings available for the VSCP helper library. Great work Salvo! You can find his work here.
We need bindings for PHP, Java, C#, Perl, node.js etc also so if you want something to do this fall this is a task to take on.