[Sugar-devel] Device's Universally Unique Identifier

[Puneet Kaur]

also targeting the xo's right now, so the serial number should suffice :-)


On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Puneet Kaur <puneet.gkaur at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Gonzalo,
>
> will use serial number as pointed by you.
>
>
> and with reference to the points raised by James, we'll assume that we are
> running a single instance of sugar on a xo. ( we can surely make it better
> once the basic flow is there :-) )
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>
> wrote:
>
>> If Sugar is used in a XO, there are a unique id and you can get it as
>> here:
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/extensions/cpsection/aboutcomputer/model.py#L52
>>
>> Maybe in the case of non xos, you can use the mac address of the active
>> network interface?
>>
>> Gonzalo
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:56 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 01:15:28PM +0530, Puneet Kaur wrote:
>>> > Can someone please tell that which number out of serial_number,
>>> > build_number and firmware_number would correspond to the Device's
>>> > Universally Unique Identifier ?
>>> >
>>> > I need a number which is unique to each device, need it to implement
>>> > the cordova device plugin for sugar - subpart of the sugar cordova
>>> > project these 3 numbers (serial_number, build_number and
>>> > firmware_number) can be retrieved from
>>> > sugar/extensions/cpsection/aboutcomputer/mode.py , but which out of
>>> > these correspond to the unique number of each device ?
>>>
>>> None of them do, because Sugar can be used on hardware which does not
>>> provide a serial number, and more than one instance of Sugar can be
>>> used on devices that do provide a serial number.  You must find
>>> another way to ensure uniqueness, such as registration to a central
>>> authority database.
>>>
>>> The aboutcomputer control panel section contains legacy code specific
>>> to the OLPC XO laptop.  You should not design on that basis alone.
>>>
>>> --
>>> James Cameron
>>> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Gonzalo Odiard
>>
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>>
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