REQUEST: Creating a method to send a UDP packet... (NTP based RTC)

[meldrath]

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void DigiFi::NTP(char *aHost){
setNetParams("UDP", "CLIENT", 123, aHost);

}
This will allow me to setup the digix to use UDP, but how to send a packet?

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void DigiFi::sendData(int len, char *data)//SEND
{
    Serial1.print("AT+SEND=");
    Serial1.print(len);
    Serial1.print(",");
    Serial1.print(data);
    Serial1.print("\r");
    readResponse(0);
}
Does not look like it's equipped to handle this....

[digistump]

NTP example coming in the next release - hopefully coming tomorrow, but maybe later this week due to the holiday

[meldrath]

Awesome. I look forward to this!

Building an aquarium controller, and having a good measure of the time is crucial for certain operations

[meldrath]

NTP example coming in the next release - hopefully coming tomorrow, but maybe later this week due to the holiday

Any update on this sir? Thank you

[digistump]

Getting very close but still in progress - in additon to the holiday I have family in town and a contract design to finish - but more than either of those I ran into a few bugs that seemed worth fixing before releasing it. I'll work on it some more tonight and if all goes well should have a release before Monday. Thanks for your patience

[meldrath]

Thanks for the update! Good luck, and enjoy your family

[digistump]

new release with NTP and RTC examples: http://digistump.com/wiki/digix/tutorials/software

[meldrath]

Awesome.... going to try this out

[meldrath]

There's nothing in the digifi library, and no digifi.h as seen in some of your examples.... or at least what I can find.

[meldrath]

DatastreamDownload.ino:1: fatal error: DigiFi.h: No such file or directory when trying to upload, so it confirms my suspicion.

[digistump]

My mistake - if you re-download the addons it is now fixed.

[NetlinkEngineer]

The wifi module powers up by default in transparent mode -- that is to say that it looks like a cable.  Whatever you send to it gets sent "transparently".  And you access the Wifi module on the DigiX via Serial1.  So if you setup up the remote address and port, mode to UDP, etc via the module web interface (see the DigiX startup wiki page) all you have to do is open Serial1 in your sketch (matching the speed you setup in the web UI) and send your data to Serial1 using Serial.write.  The data will end up at the UDP address/port you specified in the configs. 

... from there you can get fancy and update the remote address/port, etc. using the DigiFi lib if you need to.

Kevin