Relay Boards

[wolfgang928]

Hi David,

what is the current status of your plans to integrate a relay controll into the SDK?

Thanks for an info

Wolfgang928

[ibfragalot]

Originally Posted by FMode

I am posting here just to make sure you know that accessing hardware is prohibited for CF (frontends) !

accessing hardware is prohibited? eh?

[Vanadium]

Originally Posted by FMode

I am posting here just to make sure you know that accessing hardware is prohibited for CF (frontends) !

What? Frontends can't access hardware now? What about the monitor, touchscreen, sound card :P What hardware are you referring to, and according to what prohibits frontends accessing it?

[loginfailed]

Originally Posted by FMode

I am posting here just to make sure you know that accessing hardware is prohibited for CF (frontends) !

What? Explain please..

[fridgemagnet]

Hmm, the quoted post is over a year and a half old, and taken out of context.

Thread resurrection.

[loginfailed]

Doesnt matter how old the post is. There are three posts with people who still dont understand what it means.

If you understood the context enough to tell wether it was taken out of context or not, maybe you could explain what it means? Apparently the context was lost in translation..

[Zorro]

What FMode was trying to express in his post is not related to existing laws or the inability of the PC to access hardware in general but more to the philosophy not to access hardware directly. Instead, he was trying to make propaganda for something that is called "hardware abstracion".
In this case an additional software layer is used to decouple the presentation layer (Centrafuse) from the hardware layer (Relais board driver) to establish a generic way of handling such hardware. Thus, (in theory) it wouldn't matter what Relais board you use, the controlling software would be able to address them all.
For example: In Windows the programmer doesn't have to care about the different resolutions various displays may have. He's got the API which is able to draw a line from the left to the right, no matter how many pixels the display has.

Such kind of abstraction basically is a good thing but it needs standards to make it work. In real live, this is very hard to accomplish since such standards do not exist and establishing such a standard needs a lot of money and power.
And even if they exist, at some point they differ - some of you have figured already that Bluetooth is not Bluetooth, for example.

So, don't take FMode's post too serious and go and get yourself a Phidgets board

[loginfailed]

Ok, thanks for elaborating on that, Zorro. You are a wise man among wise guys.

[fridgemagnet]

Originally Posted by Zorro

So, don't take FMode's post too serious and go and get yourself a Phidgets board

Already there.