22-07-2018, 01:10
WeatherDuino Pro2 PLUS Receiver - Data Broadcast
One of the remarkable features of the WeatherDuino Pro2 PLUS system is its ability to retransmit all the weather data to several remote units, placed anywhere in the the house. Those remote devices are called Wireless Display units. Up to now, the transmission of these data to the Wireless Display is done by using a small RF transmitter. This technique works well but imposes a small penalization in the receiver capability to receive data from the outside transmitter units, which should be its main goal. However, things have changed now!
Since the release of the new Wireless Display units with WiFi capabilities, a new world of possibilities is open. If you want to read more info about these units, click here.
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From WeatherDuino Pro2 PLUS v7 software onward, its now possible to retransmit all the weather data to the WiFi Wireless Display units using the local network. Data transmission not only is considerably faster, as using it instead of the old RF method, brings an increase in RF Efficiency of around 10% to 15%, in some cases the increase in RF Efficiency can be even bigger.
To use this new possibility, there is no need to do any change on the hardware of the WeatherDuino Pro2 PLUS receivers no matter what PCB version it uses.
For those are now assembling new systems, or are planing to assembling one soon, this also mean they can choose to not install the small RF transmitter on the Pro2 PLUS receiver.
But still there is more...
With WeatherDuino Pro2 PLUS v7 software, you can extend even more the utility of yours WiiFi Wireless Display can units, using each one as an additional Extra Sensor. So WiFi Wireless Display units also send data back to the Pro2 PLUS receiver.
More on this on the next post...
One of the remarkable features of the WeatherDuino Pro2 PLUS system is its ability to retransmit all the weather data to several remote units, placed anywhere in the the house. Those remote devices are called Wireless Display units. Up to now, the transmission of these data to the Wireless Display is done by using a small RF transmitter. This technique works well but imposes a small penalization in the receiver capability to receive data from the outside transmitter units, which should be its main goal. However, things have changed now!
Since the release of the new Wireless Display units with WiFi capabilities, a new world of possibilities is open. If you want to read more info about these units, click here.
From WeatherDuino Pro2 PLUS v7 software onward, its now possible to retransmit all the weather data to the WiFi Wireless Display units using the local network. Data transmission not only is considerably faster, as using it instead of the old RF method, brings an increase in RF Efficiency of around 10% to 15%, in some cases the increase in RF Efficiency can be even bigger.
To use this new possibility, there is no need to do any change on the hardware of the WeatherDuino Pro2 PLUS receivers no matter what PCB version it uses.
For those are now assembling new systems, or are planing to assembling one soon, this also mean they can choose to not install the small RF transmitter on the Pro2 PLUS receiver.
But still there is more...
With WeatherDuino Pro2 PLUS v7 software, you can extend even more the utility of yours WiiFi Wireless Display can units, using each one as an additional Extra Sensor. So WiFi Wireless Display units also send data back to the Pro2 PLUS receiver.
More on this on the next post...