Don't hold back! Tell us what u really think of OPC. LOL!!!
Fwiw: $3k to license a useful code base is not outrageous, if there is some
useful stuff there.
Hmmmmm..... How much Design/Developer/Coding time will $3k buy me?
Perhaps u work at Elbonian wage rates! 😀
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> On Feb 23, 2016, at 2:16 PM, Matthias Urlichs <matth...@urlichs.de> wrote:
>
> Arley Carter <arcart...@bellsouth.net> writes:
>
>> Have you looked at the work done by the OPC Consortium?
>
> Not yet.
>
> [three hours later] O … K … Skip ahead if you don't want to read me ranting.
>
> If you want something that's *way* overspecified (I do not want to implement
> a
> structured version of SQL queries – among other interesting things – nor do I
> see any need to do so) and impossible to implement without (a) access to the
> reference implementation and its test cases and (b) at least a man year for
> the basics (the Java server example is 430 lines -- more than 70(!) import
> statements, way too few comments, and a heap of empty handlers most people
> would find to be somewhat essential), be my guest.
>
> This eerily reminds me of the X.400 train wreck of the 1980s.
>
> In any case, this is the OWFS list. I can guarantee that nobody in their
> right
> mind would ever connect an 1820 temperature sensor to such a system.
>
>> They are rather
>> far down the track in the direction you are headed.
>
> They also want $3000 for access to their C source code. Redistribution is not
> permitted, sorry, so any open source implementation will have to be done from
> scratch.
>
>> Why replow fields and reinvent wheels?
>
> Look at how much FHEM or OpenHAB can do. Ultimately I would like to build
> [the
> foundation of] something that's as capable, but somewhat more reliable (no
> single point of failure) and accessible ("if X, do Y" should be three lines
> of
> debuggable Python/Perl/whatever, or three Node:Red clicks).
>
> In any case I am no re-inventing any wheels. The wheels are out there, I can
> learn how they're built, and decide to use them in a vehicle that is easier
> to
> driver than what's already out there and that'll stay on track if one of the
> wheels gets loose.
>
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