On Dec 5, 2017 12:00 PM, "Mats Wichmann" <[email protected]> wrote:

On 12/05/2017 10:48 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 December 2017 08:47:44 PST Mats Wichmann wrote:
>> I can say from my time working on OCF certification that the intent was
>> always for app cert to be possible. I was never sure if there would be a
>> lot of market for it (won't speak for anyone else on that, just my
>> opinion).  If I'm building, say, smart lightbulbs that I want to exist
>> in an OCF network, I want those certified, but my app that controls my
>> lightbulbs is just an addon - I give it away to help people use the
>> bulbs I sell, but I don't generate any direct revenue from it, and I
>> might not have a lot of interest in dealing with other aspects of the
>> OCF protocols that don't relate to running those lightbulbs.
>
> FYI, the long-term objective of OCF is that you *don't* make that app.

> The control of all of your OCF-enabled devices should be done by
applications
> you already have installed, hopefully much more complete and more
featureful
> than what your simple lightbulb controller would be. I don't want to
install
> your app, plus Samsung Connect for my washing machine plus LG's
equivalent for
> my TV, etc. One application must suffice for most uses.

agree 100%.   today, I'm not sure I know who is building that app,
though.  OCF?  IoTivity?  Cisco? etc.


OpenOCF? 😋

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