Hi, Thanks for your quick feedback. For us, obviously, the interesting part of IoT is in the connecting phase, which means we need a radio chip present. We could go as far as bundle it with a SIM card, or whatever, but this current setup is relatively pricey if you do this with RPi + GSM Shield. If you look at the chipsets we currently sell in cheap FxOS phones we give a way better feature set at very low price.
So we would like to develop a dev board which is closer to the featureset of a normal phone, but with hardware features a dev board also needs (GPIO ports? USB host? Who knows). Jan On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Kevin Grandon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Jan, > > What you're doing with janOS is great, and it's great to see some > experimentation with IoT. I love hacking on hardware, so I'd like to see us > do *something* with FxOS and hardware. > > +1 to what Gabriele said though. I'm curious about what the advantages are > of building your own dev board instead of porting and fully supporting the > RPi. I would aso love to see us support WebUSB[1] so we can talk to > arduinos from FxOS devices easily. > > [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674718 > > Best, > Kevin > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Gabriele Svelto <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 13/02/2015 12:29, Jan Jongboom wrote: >> > - Do you think Firefox OS has the potential to be a viable IoT platform? >> >> I think that making web technologies available in the usually deeply >> embedded IoT platforms would definitely go hand in hand with Mozilla's >> mission. While FxOS might currently be lacking some functionality (GPIO, >> more sensor access, etc...) to be viable in that market I don't think it >> would be hard to add it. Designing the APIs so that they would be >> generally viable on the web might be more challenging though. >> >> > Unlike the experiments we ran so far, we don't want to re-use phone >> hardware to make IoT dev boards, but work with a chipset maker to build an >> actual IoT dev board, with GPIO pins, but also with a phone featureset, >> which would make it a good competitor to Arduino/RPi/etc. >> >> I'd rather work on making FxOS run on existing ones rather than >> considering to design a new one. There's been work on making FxOS work >> on the Raspberry Pi [1] but we're not completely there yet. Completing >> the port would give us access to a cheap, easily available board and I >> think it would also be easier than starting from scratch. >> >> Gabriele >> >> [1] (fxos-rpi) [meta] FxOS on RaspberryPi (RPi) >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1001404 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-b2g mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g >> >> >
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