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Spark seems very cool, but I think what worries me as a product builder is any gaurentees that the cloud service will be around in a couple years. Certainly no
by dmritard96 12y ago
Spark seems very cool, but I think what worries me as a product builder is any gaurentees that the cloud service will be around in a couple years. Certainly not suggesting that it won't be, just that if I build a product with this, I will want my own version of the cloud as an open source project that I can license or something.
- zsupalla 12y agoThe cloud back-end is open source so you can do that: http://www.github.com/spark/spark-server http://www.github.com/spark/spark-server
- mark-r 12y agoHow hard is it to reprogram the device to use your own server using that back end? How about if you wanted to do your own back end?
- Florin_Andrei 12y agoI'm assuming it's just one function call?
- mcescalante 12y agoI believe that to do this without using any of the existing firmware you would just want to grab a JTAG programmer and flash your own version of their firmware, or a custom blend of something. Flashing it is easy and they've got plenty of instructions on the web.
- middleca 12y agoYou can actually do this with a usb cable, or flash your own firmware over the air, you'd only need a jtag programmer if you wanted to replace the open-source bootloader :)
- CamperBob2 12y agoIt seems to me that these sorts of devices are using WiFi for jobs that are better suited to Bluetooth LE. Most wireless applications I'd have in mind wouldn't need a server at all, since they'd be intended for use within the same room or the same house. But WiFi requires me to drag in an entire HTTP server infrastructure whether I want one or not, because my PC can only talk to one access point at a time. It also requires a lot of heavyweight configuration work just to add the device to my secured WiFi network.