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A Protocol For Home Automation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the yes-please-now-please dept.

jfruh writes "Marshall Rose, one of the creators of the SNMP protocol, has a beef with current home automation gadgets: it's very, very difficult to get them to talk to each other, and you often end up needing a pile of remote controls to operate them. To fix these problems, he's proposed the Thing System, which will serve as an intermediary on your home automation network. The Thing System aims to help integrate gadgets already on the market, which may help it take off."

2 of 116 comments (clear)

  1. won't work by callmetheraven · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everything in the fridge is melted because I couldn't find the right MIB.

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    You can have my SIG when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
  2. SNMP is a model for how not to do things. by Above · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is someone who was ok with ASN.1, OID's, and "walking" tables that had no business in being walked, over an unreliable UDP protocol that initially had effectively zero security.

    Someone stop him from developing a home automation protocol before his being "first" relegates that industry to 30 years of pain and suffering.