Which protocol to implement on a home brewed diving computer ?

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 09:14:52PM +0100, Robert C. Helling wrote:
> 
> > Am 12.03.2015 um 18:40 schrieb Thomas Schrein <thomas at schrein.com>:
> > 
> > Which protocol do you recommend us to implement into odico ?
> > One idea is UDDF/UDCF, is this a good approach ?
> 
> I agree with Linus that UDDF is the definition of bloated. Otoh it sees to be the least common divisor if a lot of software in this sector. 
> 
> For us probably anything would be ok as long as it's documented with a preference to something that at least roughly looks like xml. But miika as our master of xslt is really the person to talk to. But other software might not care to implement what you need as long as your market share is infinitesimal. 
> 
> Why do you want to implement a serial protocol over USB?  I think the
> choice of others to present yourself as s flash drive to a usb host is
> quite convenient. In the directory listing you can already transmit info
> like time of dive and possible duration an max depth. Reading (and
> writing configure files) is then a simple matter of reading and writing
> files in the file system.

Um, I am NOT a fan of this idea. There are a ton of pitfalls here. FAT was
not designed to allow communication between two devices.

Maybe I'm tainted by the implementations of that idea that I have seen so
far, but this would not be my recommended direction.

/D