status after holiday

It's been a long time since I wrote my last piece of blog here. Reason was my 7 day of holiday in Portugal. Just before my holiday I tested as much as possible of the previous indicated points:

Writing a test for the DAC (also i2c driven) :
Succeeded but I must take the other supply to have the right levels.

Add interrupt masking to the pca input :
Succeeded but I saw contact glitches to take care off.

Writing a test to catch the interrupt in user space :
Succeeded but it will be better to combine poll/int because of the contact glitches when
push/release the button

Evaluate the level based interrupt and filter (re entrance) :
The linux gpio dev driver definitely stacks the interrupts (level changes) so filtering is needed.

Compiling / installing / testing with lighthttpd:
Succeeded even with the PHP extension as fast-cgi. Also the big pdf issue seems to be solved with this web deamon.

I also extended my overall linux tests on the NGW results can be viewed on my google pages:

http://guyvo67.googlepages.com/index

Still todo are:

-Writing a "covered all" test as proof of concept for the IO board and let it run +24h
-Extend this program including an exec (fork) call towards playing a sound
-Making a documentation of proof of concept

When all that is finished I can finally start the analyzes of the application. As the new web server turns out to be great even with the possibility of the php extension changes are high to go for the web based approach. It would be great to combine my already existing page stuff with the domotics user interface so all is placed in one central spot. And even more it will be located on my server and not one of a provider which brings a certain flexibility and freedom. It sounds very interesting to put some time in learning the PHP language too. To be short things are going Smoothly now. And lot of enjoys in the future weeks to come.