Hi Han, I'm Michele and actually I'm also involved with the development activities related to ZBee devices. TI offers the CC2531 USB evaluation Module Kit for about 50? dollars, we had the chance to obtain one copy of it for free but only for research purposes. If you have intention to keep developing with TI development kit it could be an option, but please consider that you also need the license for the compiler in order to build existing/custom firmware (a 30-day free license can be easily obtained). Our intention is to replace the old and buggy CC2480 with the new CC2531 but, as Francesco said, we was planning to re-start around May. In this direction we are opened to different USB dongle that can be "easily" integrated with the stack, I don't know if you have some expertise with USB ZBee dongle...By googling we found different USB ZBee dongles, but we don't know about the necessary effort to provide a running and stable replacement for CC2480. Moreover I've read that you also have some experiences with the Rapp driver, ZBee4OSGi actually exploits such a library (Here you can have a perspective of all the bundles building the project, see slide n. 17 it is integrated within CC2480 Data Link Protocol Bundle) so if you've already experienced it could be a good starting point.
Best regards. Il giorno 19/mar/2011, alle ore 13.19, Han Alink ha scritto: > Hello Francesco, > > I have been working on Home Automation (hardware) development for several > years (as a hobby). I have mainly developed hardware based on the X10 > protocol (sensors, light controllers, modem ?). > In 2009 I bought a XBee development kit. I used the Java based drivers form > Andrew Rapp (http://code.google.com/p/xbee-api/) on the PC side. I studied > the ZCL documents from the Zigbee alliance and extended the Andrew Rapp > driver with classes for the exchange of ZCL frames. On the other side, I used > a PIC based design to receive and react to the ZCL frames. > As I?m not a programmer, I?m afraid I?m not able to come up with something > that is fully compliant to the Home Automation profile. Another problem is > the limitations of the XBee hardware platform. The hardware does hardly > provide support for ZCL/ZDO messages; almost everything has to be handled by > the PIC processor. > > Recently I found your project website. I have not yet downloaded the software > as I have a few questions. Hope you will answer them: > > - The hardware you use is from Texas Instruments. You are probably > aware of the fact that on the TI website, the CC2480 is not recommended for > new designs. What device are you recommending now? > - Did you look into the XBee hardware? > - Did you develop a ZCL XML format/editor? > > Kind regards, > Han Alink > The Netherlands > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > Dev at zb4osgi.aaloa.org > http://zb4osgi.aaloa.org/mailman/listinfo/dev Michele Girolami ISTI - Area della ricerca CNR via G. Moruzzi 1, I-56124 Pisa Email: michele.girolami at isti.cnr.it (entrance 20, 1st floor, room C66) phone: +39 050 315 2887 fax:+39 050 315 2040 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://zb4osgi.aaloa.org/pipermail/dev/attachments/20110321/d2a71e67/attachment.html>
