On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Sam Bull <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2015-11-23 at 15:32 +0100, sturmflut wrote: >> Am 11/23/2015 um 03:24 PM schrieb Krzysztof Tataradziński: >> > Thanks for clarification! :) >> > >> > 2015-11-23 14:51 GMT+01:00 sturmflut <[email protected]>: >> >> In theory Canonical doesn't really have to "get the phone working" with >> >> appliances as long as they can be talked to over some technology the >> >> phone supports (at the moment WiFi and Bluetooth). Take for example the >> >> "Shine" app by Michael Zanetti, it has been talking to Philips Hue lamps >> >> for months already. Add background processing and notifications and >> > >> > What is Canonical current stance? Does that features in plan or not? >> > If yes, is there any schedule for that? >> >> We filed a couple of bugs against the app lifecycle and I've proposed a >> possible solution based on other ideas in >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-application-lifecycle/+bug/1502078/comments/4 >> , but apart from that it's been pretty quiet. > > I'm not really seeing many lifecycle issues for this. If it's anything > that is controlled by the phone, then it is simply a case of writing an > app that uses the right protocol to communicate with the devices. This > is down to the app developer, and needs no support from the platform > itself. >
+1, let's not get caught up in the lifecycle conversation here and keep both topics separate. Nothing prevents app authors to start supporting the specific protocols in apps today. Cheers, Thomas > If it is expected to send a notification to the device (e.g. an alarm or > doorbell), we would ideally want it to be a push notification. As these > devices probably don't support push notifications, we would currently > need an extra device in the house which receives notifications and > converts them into push notifications or something similar. > > Perhaps if there is a standard which becomes commonly used across > devices for sending these kinds of notifications, then Canonical can add > a system service to support these notifications. > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
