Re:Introducing the Photon
by dmritard96 on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @04:05PM
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Spark seems very cool, but I think what worries me as a product builder is any gaurentees that the cloud service will be around in a couple years. Certainly not suggesting that it won't be, just that if I build a product with this, I will want my own version of the cloud as an open source project that I can license or something.
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The cloud back-end is open source so you can do that:
How hard is it to reprogram the device to use your own server using that back end? How about if you wanted to do your own back end?
Re:Introducing the Photon
by mcescalante on Thursday November 13, 2014 @11:08AM
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I believe that to do this without using any of the existing firmware you would just want to grab a JTAG programmer and flash your own version of their firmware, or a custom blend of something. Flashing it is easy and they've got plenty of instructions on the web.
You can actually do this with a usb cable, or flash your own firmware over the air, you'd only need a jtag programmer if you wanted to replace the open-source bootloader :)
Re:Introducing the Photon
by Florin_Andrei on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @09:45PM
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I'm assuming it's just one function call?
Re:Introducing the Photon
by CamperBob2 on Thursday November 13, 2014 @01:40AM
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It seems to me that these sorts of devices are using WiFi for jobs that are better suited to Bluetooth LE. Most wireless applications I'd have in mind wouldn't need a server at all, since they'd be intended for use within the same room or the same house. But WiFi requires me to drag in an entire HTTP server infrastructure whether I want one or not, because my PC can only talk to one access point at a time. It also requires a lot of heavyweight configuration work just to add the device to my secured WiFi network.