ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Thomas Voß <thomas.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Sam Bull <sam.hacking@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-11-23 at 15:32 +0100, sturmflut wrote:
>> Am 11/23/2015 um 03:24 PM schrieb Krzysztof Tataradziński:
>> > Thanks for clarification! :)
>> >
>> > 2015-11-23 14:51 GMT+01:00 sturmflut <sturmflut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> >> In theory Canonical doesn't really have to "get the phone working" with
>> >> appliances as long as they can be talked to over some technology the
>> >> phone supports (at the moment WiFi and Bluetooth). Take for example the
>> >> "Shine" app by Michael Zanetti, it has been talking to Philips Hue lamps
>> >> for months already. Add background processing and notifications and
>> >
>> > What is Canonical current stance? Does that features in plan or not?
>> > If yes, is there any schedule for that?
>>
>> We filed a couple of bugs against the app lifecycle and I've proposed a
>> possible solution based on other ideas in
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-application-lifecycle/+bug/1502078/comments/4
>> , but apart from that it's been pretty quiet.
>
> I'm not really seeing many lifecycle issues for this. If it's anything
> that is controlled by the phone, then it is simply a case of writing an
> app that uses the right protocol to communicate with the devices. This
> is down to the app developer, and needs no support from the platform
> itself.
>

+1, let's not get caught up in the lifecycle conversation here and
keep both topics separate.
Nothing prevents app authors to start supporting the specific
protocols in apps today.

Cheers,

  Thomas

> If it is expected to send a notification to the device (e.g. an alarm or
> doorbell), we would ideally want it to be a push notification. As these
> devices probably don't support push notifications, we would currently
> need an extra device in the house which receives notifications and
> converts them into push notifications or something similar.
>
> Perhaps if there is a standard which becomes commonly used across
> devices for sending these kinds of notifications, then Canonical can add
> a system service to support these notifications.
>
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