Hello everyone, I just uploaded a draft version of a version 2 of the serial protocol that is used to command the Redbee Econotags with the "serial" driver on Linux. You can find the text here [1]. The specification for the version 1 can be found here [2] for a comparison (although I discussed the changes in the draft). I think an update of the serial protocol is needed for the following reasons: - Econotag's capabilities have evolved since the serial protocol version 1 has been written (hardware auto-ACK comes to mind). - it's important to clean the protocol up a little, before trying to send the serial driver upstream (removing the "zb" -> zigbee reference for example). - more devices and/or OS could make use of the protocol in the future, a more formal specification and some more flexibility could be a good thing. - some current text description in the version 1 [2] is ambiguous/under-specified; for example the "Get 64-bit address" returns an 8-byte address, but the byte ordering is not clear. - the current serial driver protocol is named "Serial protocol version 1". Obviously, it only makes sense if there is a version 2.
I have not yet updated the code that currently makes use of the serial protocol (Econotag's firmware, serial driver, the virtual serial device [3] (currently experimental)), because I intend to do so when this draft document becomes more stable. Please don't hesitate to provide some feedback (preferably on the linux-zigbee mailing list). Regards, Tony P.-S.: I cc'ed the mc1322x mailing list, because I believe Econotag's user might be interested as well. [1]: https://github.com/linux-wpan/ieee802154-serial-protocol-version2/blob/master/ieee802154-serial-protocol-2.md [3]: https://github.com/tcheneau/virtual-ieee802154-serial [2]: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/linux-zigbee/wiki/SerialV1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. A cloud service to automate IT design, transition and operations 2. Dashboards that offer high-level views of enterprise services 3. A single system of record for all IT processes http://p.sf.net/sfu/servicenow-d2d-j _______________________________________________ Linux-zigbee-devel mailing list Linux-zigbee-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-zigbee-devel
