Hi Jacob,
Chris has been working on getting the Mynewt stack working in a cross
platform way. You can see some of his progress here:
*
https://github.com/ccollins476ad/incubator-mynewt-core/tree/nativehost/apps/blehostd/src
*
https://github.com/ccollins476ad/incubator-mynewt-newt/tree/nmxact/newtmgr
The idea is to use Mynewt’s sim architecture to run in a *nix process,
and then speak HCI to whatever controller is running on the device.
Newtmgr forks mynewt, and then communicates over a unix domain socket
using JSON, and then drives the bluetooth stack. I actually pinged
Sandeep about this, because it should now work portably across Linux and
Mac with the same Bluetooth host, no wacky kernel stuff necessary.
The caveat on Mac is that you need a controller (NRF* dongle for
example), on Linux you can either run against a Mynewt controller or use
HCI itself.
I think Chris is a week or two off on getting this ready - and I think
it’s still TBD as whether this belongs in core, or as a separate
project. My vote would be to start with core, and then as it grows,
potentially move it out of core. But it is very nice to have the Mynewt
stack running as a linux process — and fairly easy to map into other
languages, because the interface is all JSON.
Best,
Sterling
On 7 Mar 2017, at 14:47, Jacob Rosenthal wrote:
Whats the internal thinking on this? Is it being discussed elsewhere?
Is
the aforementioned rewrite going on, or delayed so it make sense for
me to
try to get work on the xpc calls?
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Jacob Rosenthal
<[email protected]>
wrote:
The gatt dependency actually uses the xpc's reverse engineered by
Sandeep
for noble github.com/sandeepmistry/noble (which I have some code on)
which has three separate xpc bindings for mavericks
<https://github.com/sandeepmistry/noble/blob/master/lib/mac/mavericks.js>
yosemite
<https://github.com/sandeepmistry/noble/blob/master/lib/mac/yosemite.js>
and legacy
<https://github.com/sandeepmistry/noble/blob/master/lib/mac/legacy.js>
Now that the native apis are fairly stable and cover most of what the
xpcs
have access to, I think even sandeep doesnt love having to redo the
xpcs on
new os releases..But it takes very little to piggyback on the work
hes
already done and modernize gatt's xpc handling if thats the only
issue...
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Jacob Rosenthal
<[email protected]
wrote:
Or at least the newtmgr code as a dependency ;)
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 6:52 AM, David G. Simmons <[email protected]>
wrote:
ook at this app ...
