I am using python to send commands to the SSC-32 board for a Johnny 5 bot. I was able to open the socket and communication is fine. Now that I have done that I would like to send the command from my laptop directly to the wireless adapter without using any Internet connection. The current setup that the bot is running is a Pico ITX mother board with Windows XP installed on a HD. The wireless adapter that I have is USB a/b/g. I understand that I will need to somehow set up a static IP address on the installation of Windows. The python command send to the static IP address is what I really need. Any advice or helps out there?
To do this, you will need to setup your wireless adapters to use what is called ad-hoc mode. This does not require a router and you should be able to send commands direct to the robot from your laptop using TCP/IP sockets and static local IP addresses. These addresses would be in the range 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.254.254 and would never go out over the internet. You would just be using a local wireless network connection between the laptop and the robot.
You will use exactly the same command you are using right now, but the IP addresses and network setup would be slightly different. You should only have to change the IP addresses on the robot and the laptop to make everything work once the new network setup has been done and is working properly. The network setup should be transparent to the software other than changing the IP addresses.
8-Dale