It's alive!

Hi,

It has been a while since the previous blog entry so it's about time to give a status update :)

For the inpatient here is the short story:
We have successfully controlled devices with N900 and N810 using command line UI. Next step is to integrate the graphical UI with the communication library to provide a "bit" more intuitive user interface.

Then for the long story:
January has passed and we have been busy on the implementation. Our product consists of two programs, server program which runs on a laptop or embedded device and the client software which runs on Maemo device. In addition the client software was clearly separated into two parts, UI and communication library. This allowed us to work on both parts simultaneously.

Work tasks were distributed in such way that Joonas worked on the IR command sending stuff which is used on the server side and the quite generic xml-file parsers needed on both sides.
My task has been to provide the communication between the two programs. In practice this means that I wrote the server software and integrated Joonas's IR sending module to it. On the client side I implemented the communication library.
Asif was assigned to implement the UI. Unfortunately, due to unanticipated circumstances, things didn't run as smoothly as we were hoping. Luckily Joonas had finished his earlier tasks so we could add more manpower to UI coding.

Currently the communication library, coincident with the server software, have been tested with the simple command line UI. Meanwhile the graphical UI has been tested with a dummy communication library. So it is pretty obvious what we are going to do next, isn't it? :)

Stay tuned! Over and out.

- Otto