Comments on: XIG Update Pushes Wireless Data to Projects http://blog.makezine.com/2012/03/11/xig-update-pushes-wireless-data-to-projects/ DIY projects, how-tos, and inspiration from geeks, makers, and hackers Fri, 24 May 2013 13:54:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: AC0KG http://blog.makezine.com/2012/03/11/xig-update-pushes-wireless-data-to-projects/#comment-372635 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:24:15 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=208568#comment-372635 Another easy solution to the polling problem, if you have control over the server side, is to set up the server-side function to block until either the desired event happens or a timeout is reached. If the client gets a timeout, it immediately resends the request.

Works about like polling, but with less overhead and the immediate response time of a server-pushed message, and the server doesn’t need to keep track of interested clients.

]]> By: Jordan Husney (@jordan_husney) http://blog.makezine.com/2012/03/11/xig-update-pushes-wireless-data-to-projects/#comment-371497 Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:15:42 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=208568#comment-371497 For convenience, here are all the videos from the XIG Project Website:

http://code.google.com/p/xig/wiki/Video1GettingStarted
http://code.google.com/p/xig/wiki/Video2RemoteAtCommandsViaiDigi http://code.google.com/p/xig/wiki/Video3SendingIOSamplesToiDigi http://code.google.com/p/xig/wiki/Video4SendingSerialDataFromTheCloud

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