From: Andreas Stemmer <Andreas.Stemmer_at_web.de>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 14:12:16 +0200

> Hmmm, yes. Otherwise we would need collision detection/arbitration etc -
> nasty....

That's it!

> Maybe the remote could periodically send some sort of "I'm here"
> packet (which would be needed anyway I guess), after which there could be
a
> specified "window of opportunity" for the archos to tx any updates. Would
> that work?

Polling doesn't mean that all data has to be sent each time the remote asks
for it.
We could of course include a "anything changed?"-command or a "not necessary
to send data because there was no change"-answer and that's what you
proposed
now!

Andreas Stemmer
Received on 2002-10-09