Operation Prison Reform

[heimlich]

I linked into the Web Services. That was simple and straight forward.

In the product documentation they hinted at a data stream at what looks like the TCP level. They may call it the Event channel. There are subscriptions. Subscriptions seemed like the way to go. I never could get those to work. If you are able to create an android project that calls those I'd be interested in seeing it. If you understand the technology under the subscription I'd be interested in that as well.

Wireless Vehicle Bus Adapter (WVA) Application Developer Guide

I was in a conversation with the people at Digi by email. They are retiring the product line. They have some large clients they are keeping a base around for.

I bought a bunch of used units off ebay. They were rather cheap. I don't think they are making any new ones.

 

[Neorush]

I linked into the Web Services. That was simple and straight forward.

In the product documentation they hinted at a data stream at what looks like the TCP level. They may call it the Event channel. There are subscriptions. Subscriptions seemed like the way to go. I never could get those to work. If you are able to create an android project that calls those I'd be interested in seeing it. If you understand the technology under the subscription I'd be interested in that as well.

Wireless Vehicle Bus Adapter (WVA) Application Developer Guide

I was in a conversation with the people at Digi by email. They are retiring the product line. They have some large clients they are keeping a base around for.

I bought a bunch of used units off ebay. They were rather cheap. I don't think they are making any new ones.

That's really good to know about retiring the product line, and a little scary if I ever need a replacement. I haven't 100% committed to polling vs using the subscription services. I should be on to actual coding in about 3 weeks and I am planning on looking into the subscriptions because I agree on paper that looks like the more reliable way to go, albeit more complicated.

 

[heimlich]

I think the data comes back the same for the subscription vs the service. It may just have a wrapper around it. It won't be much work to change that part out if it you later get it to work. I am hoping you do so I can copy it.

The sample application worked at one time. It has a bunch of dependencies but they are all based on an old version of android. Maybe it will work better for you with your background. Mine is in Windows/C#.

As for replacement devices just buy a handful of them in case they do break. I think I paid $20 each for mine and I bought 4 or 5 of them on ebay used.

 

[Neorush]

Going back in time slightly I never posted the pain in the arse that was the rear window frame. The wife wanted a large rear window...like a really large one. The problem is the back of the bus curves left to right AND up and down. So I had to fabricate this crazy compound curved frame to have a flat surface to mount the window in. I have no idea how, but somehow through trial and error and some luck I managed to get a perfect fit.

 

[Busjamin]

Going back in time slightly I never posted the pain in the arse that was the rear window frame. The wife wanted a large rear window...like a really large one.

Funny you should post this now; I was thinking about this project yesterday whenever I would go to look in my "rear view" mirror on the way back to MD.

Looks like you got a great fit & finish. Though that bit of green sticking out the top would drive me insane until I covered it with white lol.

Any particular reason you went with a slider as opposed to the awning style?

 

[Neorush]

Funny you should post this now; I was thinking about this project yesterday whenever I would go to look in my "rear view" mirror on the way back to MD.

Looks like you got a great fit & finish. Though that bit of green sticking out the top would drive me insane until I covered it with white lol.

Any particular reason you went with a slider as opposed to the awning style?

Thanks, I think we wend slider mostly because this window in particular was on sale. Also will get better airflow since the slider opens 50%, drawback is that we won't want to leave it open when it rains. Also yes, that bit of green does drive me crazy!

 

[nikitis]

I kind of wanted a skylight over the bed for ours, but I plan to hide a deck and solar panels that slide out over it so I don't think it'd be possible to do in my case unless I wanted a hole in the middle of the deck and that wouldn't make a deck safe.

I have the traditional 3 windows in the rear that most buses have and they are decently large enough for viewing outside with for the wife.

 

[Busjamin]

this window in particular was on sale

That's a Texas-sized 10-4 haha cash rules everything around us CREAM it's the money, the dolla dolla bills, y'all.