On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Jack Mingaw <jack.mingaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I've seen that Iotivity 1.1.0 is going to have a NFC plugin for > Android, that's great! I'm wondering if there is a plan to develop NFC > on linux in order to make an IoT device (with Linux) communicate with > android. This would be great to easily pair two devices. > > What is the current state of Iotivity NFC on Linux? > For pairing two devices via NFC is not IoTivity specific. On Linux, there is the NFC daemon neard, it currently (0.15) does not yet support handover, though it's work in progress. http://git.kernel.org/cgit/network/nfc/neard.git/tree/doc/features.txt (GPL, DBUS API). Also, there is libnfc, https://github.com/nfc-tools/libnfc (LGPL). which is not a ready solution either: https://github.com/nfc-tools/libnfc/blob/master/include/nfc/nfc.h So it seems we are at the mercy of proprietary NFC stacks and quirks of various adapters and drivers. Specifically the Android NFC works, but generally on Linux NFC is hard to support. NFC standardization so far is an utter failure in practice. Best regards, Zoltan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.iotivity.org/pipermail/iotivity-dev/attachments/20160315/e1e8f7db/attachment.html>
