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Permalink Reply by John on December 27, 2012 at 11:15am

I want to do the same thing. I simply want to be able to connect to my APM via tcp/ip through an ethernet connection. Is this possible?

I was considering using an ethernet to serial converter as listed here

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9476

Is this the only solution?

Hmmm, I just found this too,

http://en.usr.cn/serial-ttl-rs232-to-802.11-bgn-converter-Embedded-...

And this, http://en.usr.cn/RS232-serial-to-ethernet-converter-tcp-ip-module

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Permalink Reply by Simon Howroyd on January 6, 2013 at 11:01am

Ive used a Xbee footprint wifi module, setup as an adhoc network. Was good.

Hacked apart my old virgin media, netgear router, put a patch antenna on it facing up, setup the module to auto connect to the SSID with WPA2. Worked very well indeed. Got better range on the infrastructure network compared to adhoc.

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Permalink Reply by John on January 6, 2013 at 11:13am

so you use this device on the apm and are able to connect to it from a pc on the network running mission planner? Does it use software on the pc that creates a type of virtual com port that is tunneled over the network?

Thanks

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Permalink Reply by Simon Howroyd on January 6, 2013 at 11:16am

No. This is plugged into APM as you would do XBee. It puts the serial data stream onto a TCP or UDP port on the devices IP address (which you can set to static).

In mission planner, next to connect, rather than  selecting a COM port you select TCP (or UDP depending on how you set it up), enter the IP address of the module and the port (both of which you can choose), and hey presto!

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Permalink Reply by John on January 6, 2013 at 11:28am

Thanks for the info

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Permalink Reply by Adam Smith on January 6, 2013 at 7:00pm

I suppose that will work as I can just connect the wifi module to the wifi router that then transmits the signal back to base over a long range wifi backhaul connection.

I would prefer to have a Ethernet connection to avoid any signal interference is there a module that will do the exact same thing as the wifi module but with Ethernet instead???

Thanks for your help!

Adam

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Permalink Reply by Simon Howroyd on January 7, 2013 at 2:19am

I'm sure there is however I've nev

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Permalink Reply by Tommy Larsen on May 11, 2013 at 3:57pm

Maybe you get some ideas here:

http://www.diydrones.com/xn/detail/705844:BlogPost:1234094?xg_sourc...

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