On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:54:40 +0200, neimad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What if there are several Tuxes around one's computer ? Will the
daemon return a list of available IDs, pick the first one, or pick a
random one ?
It will pik a random one. The first tux that will get the dongle request
will answer it's ID. This is how the RF firmware is done now. By repeating
this a lot of times, you should get all disconnected tux lying around.
I'd like to change it so that after a request, a tux will wait something
like 10 seconds before answering to an id_lookup again so that it's easier
to repeat id_lookups and get all tux around.
What if a client wants to connect to an already connected Tux ? Is it
forbidden (as you said) so as to ensure exclusive access, or are there
other reasons ?
You simply can't. When initialized, both RF modules will change their
protocol which is completely different than the initialization phase. So
it's not really forbidden, it's a limitation of the firmware.
What about sending to the client a list of *all* Tuxes with their
connection state (connected, not connected) ? (assuming it's not
forbidden to request a connection of an already connected Tux, of
course)
As of now, you can only connect one tux to the daemon. But once we'll have
dropped that limit, we will indeed provide a status table of all available
tux. The idea of Rémi and Thierry was also to be able to connect multiple
daemons together so that a client connected to one daemon will see all tux
available on the daemon network. But I don't think this will be
implemented soon.
And as I explained above, it's not possible to connect to an already
connected tux in order to get information from them. I don't know if it's
possible to scan the RF band in order to catch some patterns that would
indicate a connected tux, without knowing it's ID. But anyway the RF flash
memory is already overfilled so there's no chances that such a thing could
get in.
David
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