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Prop Boe-Bot WiFi Basic
I’ve been playing with RovingNetworks’ RN-XV on a Prop BOE and have gotten a version of BoeBotBasic to run using an iPad or iPhone as a console. I’d recommend using an external Bluetooth keyboard, but it does work with the on-screen touch keyboard.
You need to pre-configure the RN-XV for either Ad-Hoc mode or your favorite WiFi network, then do some extra configuration to suppress extra messages and output the connection status on one of the RN-XV I/O pins as follows:
set comm open 0
set comm close 0
set comm remote 0
set sys prntlvl 0
set sys iofunc 0×40
save
rebootYou’ll need jumpers from J5 to J2: DO to P13, DI to P12, and ASOC to P11. You may want to jumper J5 from xBee /RST to serial /RST to reset the RN-XV when the Prop is reset.
When there’s no TCP connection opened, the Basic interpreter uses the PC for a console. I use BST’s serial terminal for this. When a TCP connection is opened, the Basic interpreter switches to the TCP connection.
I use MochaSoft’s Mocha Telnet Lite on the iPad and iPhone. It’s free from the Apple App Store.
Edited: Modified interpreter to better reinitialize if TCP connection dropped and reestablished. No longer uses PC connection.
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