| ??? 04/13/11 12:18 Read: times |
#181843 - All depends on target etc Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Assume that 10k units should be shipped.
Assume that the people configuring the devices are not 10k end users, but a few technicians. Then the cost of the interface will not really matter. But the price of the units will matter. It is way easier to create a server that edits all settings and then sends them in as a 10-byte or 1kB raw configuration record, then it is to have the embedded device produce web pages dynamically (text + field content), and decode the answers and validate them. The decoding and validation are likely to require a number of firmware updates if processing http data directly because of compatibility issues with web browsers, user interface languages etc. --- In a situation where the number of people who are going to configure the devices are about the same as the number of devices, then the cost of the programming interface will matter a lot. In that case, it might be an advantage if the smartphone itself contained all GUI features, input validation etc, so the interface can be transparent and the devices needs just send/receive raw configurations. So maybe a bluetooth serial adapter with a smartphone application accessing the serial port. --- In the end, the quantity and the price range will be important factors for what is best. |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Creating iPhone apps? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| added cost of the connectivity | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Web server dongle | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Code space | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| HTML isn't big | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| "only" (sic) 8919 bytes | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| All depends on target etc | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| You could do a lot in 1kByte | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
It isn't the page itself that consumes code space | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Apps | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Evil incarnate | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| hurdles | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Apple "openness" | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Free | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Agree to disagree | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| No, quite a lot is missing | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| But still sufficient to be useful | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| No, definitely usable even if crippled | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| you misunderstood me | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| One More thing | 01/01/70 00:00 |