Initializing more than 253 devices per bridge

[Paula-Kli]

What should happen if the bridge detects that the cloud gives a device ID greater than 253? (254 and 255 are reserved for the protocol)

[Sbef98]

Tbh, that might be a problem. Eventually, we may add a sub routine that "pings" all the devices and checks if they're alive, a sort of garbage collector.
When we find that a with an earlier id does not exist, the bridge might tell it to the cloud which will note it down among the available ids and use these ids to initialize future devices.
IF we acutally did hit the maximum because we connected 253 devices to the bridge, the other option may actually ignoring the initialization request.
Eventually, if we see this as a possibility, we might move to 16 bit protocol. I mean, it's not that terribly hard to be implemented, not on arduino at least aka nowhere!