Hi Zoltan,
From: iotivity-dev-bounces at lists.iotivity.org [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kis, Zoltan Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 12:58 PM To: Jack Mingaw <jack.mingaw at gmail.com> Cc: iotivity-dev <iotivity-dev at lists.iotivity.org> Subject: Re: [dev] NFC on Linux On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Jack Mingaw <jack.mingaw at gmail.com<mailto: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). [Geoffroy] that file is most likely out-of-date (last update was in February 2014). IIRC neard already supported some form of handover more than a year ago, off the top of my head, this may have been only static hand-overs but it worked for BT and WiFi. I?d be a little surprised if they haven?t made any progress on that lately. Have you checked with the project maintainers for the specifics? 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 Technical Marketing Engineer Manager Open-Source Technology Centre Tel: +32 (0)3 450 0851 ----------------------------------------------- Intel Corporation NV/SA Kings Square, Veldkant 31 2550 Kontich RPM (Bruxelles) 0415.497.718. Citibank, Brussels, account 570/1031255/09 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.iotivity.org/pipermail/iotivity-dev/attachments/20160315/938041e1/attachment.html>
