Comments on: Shion + XMPP = Win http://www.audacious-software.com/weblog/2009/07/shion-xmpp-win/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:29:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Chris J. Karr http://www.audacious-software.com/weblog/2009/07/shion-xmpp-win/#comment-1431 Chris J. Karr Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:21:52 +0000 http://www.audacious-software.com/weblog/?p=254#comment-1431 One correction to the comment above - Shion.framework is GPL licensed, not BSD licensed. I'm getting my projects and licensing mixed up. :-P One correction to the comment above – Shion.framework is GPL licensed, not BSD licensed. I’m getting my projects and licensing mixed up. :-P

]]> By: Chris J. Karr http://www.audacious-software.com/weblog/2009/07/shion-xmpp-win/#comment-1430 Chris J. Karr Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:19:48 +0000 http://www.audacious-software.com/weblog/?p=254#comment-1430 kael, there are no immediate plans to port Shion to other platforms until the Mac port becomes sufficiently financially viable that I can indulge in such a luxury. :-) That said, I have been releasing the Shion framework (that Shion.app is built upon) as open source for some time now. If you are interested in a port to your platform, you can help move the project along by helping me port that framework to your chosen platform. (The main challenge is adapting the Mac OS X IOKit USB & serial port calls to use Linux's HID functions.) Once I have a Linux-native port of the Shion framework, a full port should be possible using GNUStep. I would need to find a way to license Shion on Linux (Shion.framework is BSD-licensed, Shion.app is proprietary), but that shouldn't be an issue. Until all of these pieces fall into place (and please note that I'm not promising a Linux port quite yet), you might be interested in checking out some of the existing HA software on the Linux platform such as Mr. House: http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/ kael, there are no immediate plans to port Shion to other platforms until the Mac port becomes sufficiently financially viable that I can indulge in such a luxury. :-)

That said, I have been releasing the Shion framework (that Shion.app is built upon) as open source for some time now. If you are interested in a port to your platform, you can help move the project along by helping me port that framework to your chosen platform. (The main challenge is adapting the Mac OS X IOKit USB & serial port calls to use Linux’s HID functions.)

Once I have a Linux-native port of the Shion framework, a full port should be possible using GNUStep. I would need to find a way to license Shion on Linux (Shion.framework is BSD-licensed, Shion.app is proprietary), but that shouldn’t be an issue.

Until all of these pieces fall into place (and please note that I’m not promising a Linux port quite yet), you might be interested in checking out some of the existing HA software on the Linux platform such as Mr. House:

http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/

]]> By: kael http://www.audacious-software.com/weblog/2009/07/shion-xmpp-win/#comment-1429 kael Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:27:52 +0000 http://www.audacious-software.com/weblog/?p=254#comment-1429 Is there any chance we could run Shion on Linux/Ubuntu ? Is there any chance we could run Shion on Linux/Ubuntu ?

]]> By: Nÿco http://www.audacious-software.com/weblog/2009/07/shion-xmpp-win/#comment-1428 Nÿco Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:16:31 +0000 http://www.audacious-software.com/weblog/?p=254#comment-1428 Wow! Great! ;-) Wow! Great! ;-)

]]> By: Chris J. Karr http://www.audacious-software.com/weblog/2009/07/shion-xmpp-win/#comment-1427 Chris J. Karr Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:08:32 +0000 http://www.audacious-software.com/weblog/?p=254#comment-1427 Nÿco, what you suggest is part of the ultimate plan, but I started with the old-fashioned command line as a starting point (this work is far from complete). What I currently have in mind are two basic interfaces that use the XMPP channel: a natural language interface (more flexible than the above example) for folks using vanilla XMPP clients, and a more robustly-defined asynchronous XML protocol that uses something like ad-hoc commands for clients and libraries that implement the extension. Nÿco, what you suggest is part of the ultimate plan, but I started with the old-fashioned command line as a starting point (this work is far from complete). What I currently have in mind are two basic interfaces that use the XMPP channel: a natural language interface (more flexible than the above example) for folks using vanilla XMPP clients, and a more robustly-defined asynchronous XML protocol that uses something like ad-hoc commands for clients and libraries that implement the extension.

]]> By: Nÿco http://www.audacious-software.com/weblog/2009/07/shion-xmpp-win/#comment-1426 Nÿco Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:58:48 +0000 http://www.audacious-software.com/weblog/?p=254#comment-1426 Why not use 'Ad-Hoc Commands' instead of the old commandline? http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0050.html Thus you could have a list of devices in your roster, and just right-click on them, select the command, fill-in the dialog with specific parameters, and send the command. It is so much more user-friendly. Why not use ‘Ad-Hoc Commands’ instead of the old commandline?
http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0050.html
Thus you could have a list of devices in your roster, and just right-click on them, select the command, fill-in the dialog with specific parameters, and send the command.
It is so much more user-friendly.

]]> By: Scott Newman http://www.audacious-software.com/weblog/2009/07/shion-xmpp-win/#comment-1425 Scott Newman Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:42:35 +0000 http://www.audacious-software.com/weblog/?p=254#comment-1425 This is a fantastic development, Chris! Shion just keeps getting better and better. This is a fantastic development, Chris! Shion just keeps getting better and better.

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