On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 05:04:59PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> I suspect that the two of you may be making different assumptions. Mikael
> is thinking of ISP-provided CPEs (marketed as "boxes" in Europe), which
> are slowly becoming fairly powerful devices. Toerless is thinking of
> Plastic Home Routers, which have been stuck at 4MB flash and 8MB RAM for
> as long as anyone can remember.
>
> IMHO, both kinds of devices are necessary to the success of Homenet.
Right on all points. So the biggest challenge is really how to motivate
better "in-home" devices which are not SP-OEMed and do not connect to a
WAN-link.
I think those loadable apps are the key to getting the right HW into the home.
If there is an evolving SW platform for such apps that is not tied to specific
vendors on the HGW, then the same SW platform should easily proliferate
into the non-HGW homenet devices and raie their HW requirements to what we
want.
Alas, i am not aware of a widely distributed SW platform for "embedded"
apss. Aka: Android/iOS apps - but for devices without display. Not that
it's technically difficult, its more a question of creating a critical mass
of support/interest. Java would likely be nicely lightweight. Docker could
do more and be faster but is likely a lot more disk heavy, etc. pp.
Cheers
Toerless
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