Raspberry Pi 2 and Windows 10

[mvdarend]

Not only did the Raspberry Pi Foundation announce the Raspberry Pi 2, but it seems that Windows 10 will support Raspberry Pi 2 and we can get it free for the Maker community through the Windows Developer Program for IoT coming later this year. Last year Microsoft announced the Windows Developer Program for IoT and put Windows on the Intel Galileo board. Today Windows gets even better for IoT and Maker scenarios by supporting makers on RPi2.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheNewRaspberryPi2WillRunWindows10AndRunUniversalApps.aspx

[NicoVermeir]

ow this is brilliant!

[Gene]

Very interesting stuff 
This is the official announcement page: http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-2-on-sale/
I wonder if BCM2836 is somehow compatible with BCM2835 library (so the one used in HG).

g.

[Wibo]

Nice one, according to this guy http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/02/02/raspberry-pi-2-model-b/
there are not many differences between the chips and it's 6 times faster.
Well I'm sure I'm going to try that baby running.

[Wibo]

Don't expect to much of windows though, it's Win 10 IoT.
Although I don't know what to expect.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-windows-10-for-iot-what-to-expect/
It probably won't have a GUI.

Running raspbian 6 times faster would make the RPi a better candidate for complex things

[wouter]

the homegenie platform is open source. windows 10 is closed source

[NicoVermeir]

Don't expect to much of windows though, it's Win 10 IoT.
Although I don't know what to expect.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-windows-10-for-iot-what-to-expect/
It probably won't have a GUI.

Running raspbian 6 times faster would make the RPi a better candidate for complex things

it won't have a shell but it will run universal apps. and services, which is basically all we need to get HG running on it

[bctech]

Please Please!! I love see to see some traction on Homegenie running on a Raspberry Pi 2 with Windows 10 IoT. I have one running and would be happy to work with you to test it out.

It is a full windows core (no gui) with .net and already has drivers for Aeon Labs Z-Stick, see this post for detail, however, I am not sure how MS ZWaveBackgroundService would interface here (whether the service can just be disabled and run the current zwave stack or if the software would need to be updated to work with that zwave core). but I can confirm that Win 10 on Pi 2 supports the Z-Stick. https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/1f5c8539-f4a3-4fb8-947f-e7d03c213d86/zwavebackgroundservice?forum=WindowsIoT

I am especially interested as my current Pi B+ with raspbian seems to lose connection to the Z-Stick and it needs to be re-plugged or pi powercycled to regain connection to the Z-Wave network every few days or so.

Also they do have native C# function to access the Pi's GPIO's and I would love to also eventually see support for that as well.

I see that you have your source code available and I will begin looking into maybe getting that into a universal app (.appx) to be installed to the win 10 IoT. But as I am just starting to get my feet wet in programming (C# and Perl) I am not even sure where to start for that.