Domestic H5 development: Sunflower realizes H5 WeChat remote control and provides a new path for embedded development

Recently, the domestic remote control brand Sunflower released a new technology for directly remotely controlling computers with WeChat. This technology uses HTML5 related technologies such as Websocket and WebGL. That is, users can use WeChat or browser to control the host system without installing any APP or plug-ins.

The release of this function has ushered in a new round of excitement in the H5 application market. Some netizens discussed that the significance of this function is that embedded developers may only need to embed a few pieces of code to achieve remote control, avoiding the biggest difficulty barrier in the current embedded market: the need to adapt to various system environments. It provides creative support and new ideas for the embedded market.

Regarding the relevant technical pain points, we contacted Director Zhang, the person in charge of Sunflower, and she summarized the following points:

1. Remote control embedding is basically linking development libraries, using local languages ​​or static languages ​​for development, which makes development difficult;

2. The development library needs to adapt to different platforms and system environments, the debugging environment is complex, and the development cycle is long;

3. Users’ development languages/environments are different, so it is difficult for service providers to provide a complete solution.

Example: Solving the significance of embedded systems through H5 technology

Here, we take a customer service system software manufacturer as an example of an embedded demander. If the demander wants to embed third-party functions in its own software, such as Sunflower remote maintenance and remote monitoring functions, the traditional approach is: after the Sunflower manufacturer reaches a cooperation intention with the customer service system manufacturer, the Sunflower technicians will evaluate the difficulty of embedding, whether it needs to adapt to different models, operating systems, hardware devices and other actual conditions. On the basis of the general package, the R&D personnel need to re-modify the code to make a customized package and submit it to the testing department for testing, which has a long development cycle.

However, if this solution can be implemented by Web technology (mainly HTML5 technology), the above development difficulties will be solved.

1. The technical threshold is greatly reduced, and no complex development environment is required;

2. Natural cross-platform capability. It can be used through browsers (non-IE) or various Webkit embedding solutions;

3. Flexible and efficient, adapting to the rapidly changing needs of the Internet; eliminating the complicated process of recompiling, publishing, and customer updates;

Sunflower's remote control function is a lightweight application function that is needed and indispensable for embedded manufacturers. In terms of product design, we can think of using the WeChat platform, which has hundreds of millions of entrances, as an entry point. From an overall perspective, it makes its brand more representative, allowing manufacturers to quickly embed this lightweight application in their apps, WeChat public accounts, etc.

The relationship between H5 and app is more like interconnected coexistence, each with its own advantages and disadvantages, but H5 seems to be a bargaining chip for every lightweight application manufacturer to win more cooperation resources for themselves.