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Protocol 2.0 available

Bindings, Brick Viewer, Brick Daemon and Firmwares/Plugins that support the new protocol are now available!

What is Protocol 2.0?

Protocol 2.0 is a new reworking of the communication between Bricks/Bricklets and the Brick Daemon. The old protocol hat lots of legacy issues, e.g. it was not suited to handle a connection loss while communicating over WiFi. There are also improvements in the enumeration process and there are many new settings that can be played around with.

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Help for the migration of an existing project to the new protocol is available in the documentation. The conversion can be done in a few minutes, after the bindings and firmwares are updated to the newest versions.

Brick Daemon in C

The new Brick Daemon in rewritten in C. As a result it should be way more efficient on embedded systems such as the Raspberry Pi and use less resources.