I am planning on using an Ethernet Shield and a TCP connection to communicate between my arduino and a VB.net app that I have been writing. Any ideas as to whether there is already an application that displays sensor info and controls drive, etc on an Arduino from a PC/Mac?
Thanks!
There is no ready made (web) application that allows to read sensors and drive pins on the Arduino from the Ethernet but there are lots of sample code in the Arduino Ethernet library that you can use to achieve this. There are also projects about this on the web that you can use as an inspiration.
That’s the news I was afraid of… It seems to be the same wall that I have been running into at almost every issue so far, unless I have hours and hours to search online for solutions… And, omg if you need a part and have to browse Digikey… omg…
Looks like homebrew software it is…
It might actually be easier to use the planned arduino code, but instead of directly communicating via TCP, the VB.net app could log in via telnet server on the arduino and issue commands, reading sensor values could also be easier…
BTW-I wish I would have found this site a lot earlier. That could have eliminated hours of searching.
