ComfortClient

[juwi_uk]

Hi Admin,

As I mentioned in the related Modbus thread the Plugin part that polls the Modbus devices is a Windows Service and the communication between the Service and the ComfortClient is via Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ).

I designed it this way as MSMQ has some powerful networking features so I can scale-up and scale-out the design if the interest is there.

At the moment the Service and Client sit on the same PC as I\'ve used \"Private\" message queues (which impose this constraint).   I did this to keep things simple while Ingo and I work out how the architecture develops and performs; really well at the moment by the way!. 

That said I can switch to \"Public\" message queues very quickly with very few code changes and then you could split across multiple machines based on the standard architure for distributed MSMQ\'s.  Not sure whether this is all managed by Active Directory etc as havent looked to closely yet,  but anything is possible! 

Why the question though?

Julian

 

 

 

 

[admin]

Just wondering how difficult it would be to implement because some users would like to integrate to Modbus, eg for Dupline

[juwi_uk]

Admin,

I\'ve not created an installer for the client to date as it hasnt been necessary.

Steps to get working at the moment are:

* One off install of MSMQ from \"Add/Remove Programs\" if not already installed

* Copy Client and Plugin files to disk from distribution

* 1 line command at command prompt to install the service

The ComfortClient or ModbusConsole start/stop the app and create the MSMQ queus automatically as needed.

Julian

[Patrick]

Hi Julian,

How can I run the ComfortClient software on PDA phone?

Patrick

[juwi_uk]

Patrick,

Easy answer...you can\'t as it\'s not designed for this platform.

Julian

 

 

[Patrick]

Julian,

Thanks. 

Since PDA phone is so popular now, do you have plan to create a module for it?

Patrick

[juwi_uk]

Hi Patrick,

I currently have no plans to do anything on the PDA platform though I\'ve seen others on this community may be doing interfaces to Comfort. 

In my view the ComfortClient is all about using graphical representations of floor plans and the small size of PDA screens really doesnt meet the criteria here for a good user experience. Also a consideration has been the different operating systems used by these  PDA\'s as it would be difficult to provide wide support;  best would have been Windows Mobile PDA\'s (WM6.x) but to me the Windows Phone has yet to get going with Market share yet (been too slow).

I see the future in pad PC\'s such as the Apple iPad running MS Windows OS.  Anyone want to buy me one so I can test it? 

Also perhaps something on the web side would be good but that is the \"future future\" as plenty to do on the current platform yet. 

Regards

Julian