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New profile ("activation") type for actuators? #5

Closed iomz closed 3 years ago

iomz commented 4 years ago

"Polling" is a term often used for data access to/from passive entities (e.g., sensors), but actually LEDs are "actuators" like robots and their state are not affected by the environment, but the actions – we may need to create the forth type: "actuator"... Let's discuss this on Wed.

_Originally posted by @iomz in https://github.com/Interactions-HSG/uArm-Controller/pull/4#discussion_r503667361_

jo-bru commented 4 years ago

Question: Do profiles with "actuators" type send feedback after the action is completed? (e.g. if the red LED is turned on, should the MCU send a feedback message to the gateway?)

Answer: Yes, always send feedback on a successful action.

iomz commented 3 years ago

Just for the side note to come back later; about the name of the profile "activation type", probably we can employ this vocabulary from gRPC: https://grpc.io/docs/what-is-grpc/core-concepts/#rpc-life-cycle

Unary/[Server|Client] Streaming/etc... I guess we'll know if it's good or not when we start synchronizing this nanopb with gRPC gateway.