well please keep me in mind when you do sort something out. i am designing a project now and was looking at both kura and openhab for it
On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Łukasz Dywicki <[email protected]> wrote: > I am OpenHab (OH) 2 user and I I must say that whole PDE thing is > redundant from my Karaf (as a platform) point of view. But this all comes > from past of project which was launched with Tycho and PDE since early > days. There are multiple entities involved in project and it is not an easy > task to redefine how things should be built. > > Initial apis of OH were quite simple and didn’t require anything strictly > related to physical thing. Starting form OH2 and extraction of Eclipse > SmartHome there is a seperation of concerns. OH2 bindings define Bridge and > Things connected over it and may have Channels associated with every of > these. At this stage it is lowest common denominator. There is no higher > level APIs for representing pumps, boilers or sensors or alarms but from > other hand OH is not a SCADA platform. Maybe at some point there will be > further generalization of code which will allow bindings to gain some > benefits? Many of bindings is pure software integration with vendor bridges > having very little or no hardware involved at all which makes it easier to > develop. > > I haven’t played with Kura so far because I didn’t need such low level > library, but even if I would need something such that I would rather go for > dedicated library handling specific use case instead of Kura which brings > too much. > > Kind regards, > Lukasz > -- > Apache Karaf Committer & PMC > Twitter: @ldywicki > Blog: http://dywicki.pl > Code-House - http://code-house.org > > > > Wiadomość napisana przez [email protected] w dniu 2 sty 2017, o > godz. 19:56: > > > > I share most of Brad's concerns; at first I was very interested in > OpenHAB > > but after playing with it for a bit I began to think about designing a > new > > service layer and then seeing if I could fit the OpenHAB native libraries > > to it. > > > > OpenHAB corroborates my "PDE considered harmful" theory; it must be > > possible to use OSGi idioms effectively while developing in Eclipse PDE, > > but it doesn't seem to happen in practice. > > > > So Brad, I am right with you and I would like to help - but I am > seriously > > short of time at the moment :-( > > > > > > > > > >
