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Wireless weather

By Raen
-  Fri Dec 18, 2015 4:46 pm #186674
I'm going to be building a weather station using the proton weather shield. I would like to have 2 wireless displays (probably 4d touchscreens). Would I use 3 xbees for this, or would Bluetooth be a better idea?

Re: Wireless weather

By Crappinni
-  Mon Jan 04, 2016 1:59 pm #187056
From my experience, the xbees will be more straightforward to use. I assume you're transferring only weather data and you're driving the displays using a separate controller?

Re: Wireless weather

By Raen
-  Fri Jan 22, 2016 7:15 pm #187511
Yes, that's what I was thinking with the 4D displays as they would be able to just accept the serial data sent from the xbees and the 4D's do all the fancy stuff.

Re: Wireless weather

By stevech
-  Sat Jan 23, 2016 9:04 pm #187545
Raen wrote:I'm going to be building a weather station using the proton weather shield. I would like to have 2 wireless displays (probably 4d touchscreens). Would I use 3 xbees for this, or would Bluetooth be a better idea?
bluetooth range is small.
XBee PRO S1 - good range but screens need 3.3V serial input
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