[Pkg-utopia-devel] Addition of Arnaud Quette to work on Convergence (Python uPnp)

[Arnaud Quette]

Hi Sjoerd and the team,

2007/6/4, Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd at spring.luon.net>:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 02:01:33PM +0200, Arnaud Quette wrote:
> ...
> Welcome! Feel free to join #debian-utopia on freenode IRC, which is where most
> of us usually hang out :)

thanks
I'll try someday to join #d.u, though it's still a bit hard at home
(two sons, 7 months and 3 years).
so for the moment, async (mail) comm. is still my preferred way.

> One thing i was wondering, Does UPNP need a server for service discovery (just
> like avahi-daemon for dns-sd?). If so, any idea how that would work when
> multiple UPNP stacks are used on a system ? For example when also using GUpnp
> (http://gupnp.org/). I wouldn't be surprised if rhythmbox would get a gupnp
> based upnp plugin RSN.

I'm not sure exactly for the moment.
on the SSDP server side (seems to be 1900/udp & tcp, as per IANA), the
conflict will be obvious.
on the client side, I'm not sure! coherence advertise to have a
msearch client in its features, but the graphic is talking about a
msearch server (I interpret this as a daemon for discovery).

I still have to talk with the upstream () who was on holidays and will
raise this discussion...

As a side note, on the Utopia topic, I have some upstream efforts underway:

- I'm currently finishing the Network UPS Tools 2.2.0 release, which
brings the HAL bridges.
a package, called nut-hal-drivers (provided hal-ups-support) will be
shipped, and should be integrated in the base system without having
HAL depending on it. This would allow the removal of this package in
favor of a classic nut install (which provides more feature for
enterprise class)
Any thoughts / comments? also who to bug and lobby for such things?

- I'm also making some major LIRC enhancements, and I'm considering
the same kind of HAL bridging. More info:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RemoteControls

see you,
Arnaud
-- 
Linux / Unix Expert - MGE UPS SYSTEMS - R&D Dpt
Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/
Debian Developer - http://people.debian.org/~aquette/
OpenSource Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/