anzellai / kanosdk

Kano Community SDK (Proof of Concept)

Kano Community SDK (Proof of Concept)

Summary

This is a proof of concept using cross platform server/client architecture for bidirectional serial communication between Kano Kit(s) and Client connection.

I chose Protocol Buffers for serialising data for its platform & language-neutral mechanism, which means 1 definition file, user can generate their own server/client.

I also chose Go to write the sample server & client for its portability, you can simply generate a client in your preferred language and communicate to my prebuilt server. Of course you can simply run both prebuilt server & client and play around with them, no compilation required.

Linux, Darwin (MacOS) and Windows are prebuilt and stored at the /bin folder.

Example Usage

Just run the server & client with your host platform under bin folder, the server and client should run on separate processes.

Server accepts environment variable for running "port" (default "55555"); Client accepts environment vairable for connecting "address" for server (default "localhost:55555").

To list the available devices, look at either:

Linux/Darwin: dmesg |grep tty, or ls -al /dev/tty.*; Windows: mode

Input your device serial address, and send data to gRPC server to communicate between serial and your server+client in bidirectional manner.

TODO

Plenty, like full implementation of device protocols, communication message format / device set-mode, helper functions to list connected devices etc., testing and more robust definitions and more samples in different programming languages.

Contribution welcome, but not for this repository, please submit your issues/ideas/feature requests to Kano Community SDK.