No, I'm not dead ;-)

It's been a while, right? Sorry for that. I'll try to post here once per week from now on, I swear.

Well, since my last post some things happened. Let's see... I've got a motorcycle. And I've got a motorcycle accident. My left arm is not so good but I will survive :-). I've began to write my master thesis, too. But I'm not here to talk about me, but about my GSoC project.

The midterm is gone now and Kevin granted me a "passed" status :-D. This is a motivation, indeed. About the work: I've implemented the media server (Solid::Backends::UPnP::UPnPMediaServer) and internet gateway (Solid::Backends::UPnP::InternetGateway) classes. The media server implements the Solid::DeviceInterface::StorageAccess interface, with the idea of treat UPnP media servers as remote folders or something like that. Actually, you can think in a media server as a remote pendrive, with some media there. The internet gateway (could be a router, an ADSL modem, etc.) implements an interface made by me to these kind of devices, so it can and will be improved with the time, since the actual API is pretty bounded with the UPnP forum specifications, and it is exactly what we can avoid in Solid (flexibility is the law).

I've made some unit tests with the media server and seems like the things are fine. Actually, Nikhil's work in Amarok will tell what we could improve on that part. Using the HUPnP library, the backend is able to detect UPnP devices available on the network, as you can see here.

The IGD tests are kind of stuck, because HUPnP has some problems in detecting UPnP internet gateway devices. I've been trying to test with two wireless routers, but without success so far. I'm in touch with Tuomo (library's author and maintainer) and in this afternoon we spent a good time debugging HUPnP and talking about heavy metal :-p. Looks like he figured out what is going on and will patch the library ASAP.

The next steps now is keep working in the IGD issue and in parallel work at the device notifier integration (at least with media servers). I'm having some difficulties in understanding the device notifier code, but nothing that we can't ask, right? :-)

Well, that's it for now. Next Sunday I'm back here. With a good arm. I guess...

Cheers.