Wifly GSX breakout question

Wireless & IoT
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I asked this in the product comments but thought I should ask here instead.

Got a few questions:

  1. Has anyone successfully integrated this with an iPhone through a IP socket?

Looking for a way to integrate the iPhone with what I’m building and it appears I can open a socket on the iPhone and on the WiFly to send a data stream from the sensor mesh (see #2).

  1. I’m thinking of including a Zigbee module on the same board for a sensor mesh network. Any conflicts with the wireless frequencies?
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Have you had any luck with this. It seems like there are a lot of people asking about this functionality, or saying it’s possible, but not always how.

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I use Digi XBee Series 1 modules with the 802.15.4 firmware. I don’t need/use ZigBee. (ZigBee is not a synonym for 802.15.4 any more than TCP/IP is a synonym for 802.3)

WiFi coexistence is a non-issue. Optionally, you can choose channels to minimize impact of heavily used WiFi. I use '15.4 channels that fall in between WiFi channels 1, 6 and 11.

Consider too the ConnectOne modules.

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Thanks for the reply guys. Any comments on the socket capabilities?

Thanks!

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OK stevech, you got me looking at ConnectOne and I can see why you suggested it. It looks like it has more control over the on board WiFi controller. Did you have any luck with configuring a socket on these with an Arduino?

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mcgski:
OK stevech, you got me looking at ConnectOne and I can see why you suggested it. It looks like it has more control over the on board WiFi controller. Did you have any luck with configuring a socket on these with an Arduino?

I used the ConnectOne with an Atmel Mega128 or mega32, I've forgotten which. When you say configuring a socket, what do you mean? The connectOne protocol is rather higher level, but as I recall you can do socket I/O. I did email client, serial port pass through and so forth. Once you connect the serial ports together, the rest is just following their good documentation.
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Thanks. I’m looking to pass sensor data to an iPhone with this module from a Seeeduino v328 or Mega. A simple socket interface should be fine. Initially, the data transmission should be relatively small, but I may want to start pumping larger chunks of data through.

I’m about to put in an order on Mouser. Do you know remember which version of ConnectOne you used with the Arduino. I think the only one that is reasonably priced is the Mini Socket iWiFi.

Were there were any interface issues? I think I read where the 3.3v UART was a problem with the original Arduino @ 5v but the Seeed version has a switch to allow 3.3v operations.