These are the source files related to the setup I mentioned in CTC's post about wireless serial com.
Reposting info on the setup just for ref.
Alrighty, ctc, got the rig working. The setup is the following:
<ir beacon> transmitting byte sequence from 1-9
<relay station> picaxe 8m with ir receiver showing correct data in the debug window.
Transmitting the byte sequence received from ir beacon via bt to my desktop running the processing code.
I'll post source code for all three components(irb, picaxe relay station, processing code) in a bit.
Just a note, the shot below was active and transmitting the number sequence(from the beacon) out through the bt(note green connect led on the bt device) :D
The code is pretty simple and contains some not so cleaned up stuff...I tried to keep notes in the code for easy understanding of what I did. If you have any questions please feel free to ask. Updates to the code are welcomed as well. :D
I mentioned this a while back but didn't think too much about it for the community, but what do people think about setting up a global file repo that everyone can access, download and update. Just a thought.
I am playing with the same sample code for my little tests.
Question: (With the same sample code) I am trying to switch from sending the incoming data out as text but instead using 4 bytes to then draw a line. As of now, I am trying to get the “instring” into an array so I can then use the 4 seperate bytes in to draw the line. --Any thoughts? Is this the way to go?
One thing that I was thinking of doing was making a radar sweep anim, so the way I was going to do it was use a char var say x then send the value, then y and send the value
in basic something like
symbol startbyte = s
symbol endbyte = e
serout startbyte
serout “x”,b0
serout “y”,b1
serout “u” , b2
serout"v" , b3
In processing you’d want to do the following
look for the startbyte and discard everything else until you get it
match() the first char, and put the value in an array for each coord
this is a test function that replaces the com_2_pwmc function from the 38khz file
com_2_pwmd:'this sub is a mod of pwmb that loops through a count. { 'send the first pulse out to get the attention of the reciever.s 'high collector ’ set the transistors collector high. pwmout collector,F,FP {high Tbase pause 10 low Tbase pause 200 'give a cool down period for the ir rec. } 'set 1 SEROUT Tbase,n1200_4,(“S”)'uses active low sig pause delay SEROUT Tbase,n1200_4,(34) pause delay_b SEROUT Tbase,n1200_4,(44) pause delay_b SEROUT Tbase,n1200_4,(66) pause delay_b SEROUT Tbase,n1200_4,(55) pause delay_b SEROUT Tbase,n1200_4,(“E”) pause 1255
{high Tbase pause 10 low Tbase pause 200 'give a cool down period for the ir rec. }
getirin3: { 'do serin after int subprocedure redirect… serin 2, t1200_8, b0 'SEROUT TX,T4800_8,(b0) if b0 is “S” then{ do if b0 is “S” then{ SEROUT TX,T4800_8,(b0) 'SEROUT TX,T4800_8,(10) else SEROUT TX,T4800_8,(b0) endif serin 2, t1200_8, b0 'debug loop until b0 is “E” SEROUT TX,T4800_8,(b0)'this should send the E SEROUT TX,T4800_8,(10) }endif
The receiver is The receiver is triggered(via interrupt) by the pulsout and starts it’s read sequence from this point. To make sure that the receiver is set and ready to read in data , I give it a short cooldown period before the datasend.
