Wireless link?

oddson · 24 Dec 2005

You likely have this sorted by now but...

Wireless connectors have to have the same name and be of the same data type. (Not just compatable, same!)

The sending (output) connector has to be in a module that is directly above the receiving (input) connector in the module hierarchy.

The 'Module Wireless Output' is equivalent to a hard wired output connected outside the module to a wireless output. It bumps the send up one level in the hierarchy but then all receivers must be in a direct line downward from there.

Tom7777 · 24 Dec 2005

As were on the subject of wireless links, a quick tip, you can use the "r" and "t" keyboard keys to quickly add them to a schematic.

oddson · 24 Dec 2005

use the "r" and "t" keyboard keys to quickly add them to a schematic.

OH! 😊

I wondered what the R and T on their icons were for. Oh! 🙂

"R"ecieve and "T"ransmit! - Cool! 😀

Tom7777 · 25 Dec 2005

😀

aetmos · 7 May 2006

Is there a way to have a wireless link for the output of a module? Like, I have a Wireless Out in a module, and a Wireless In directly above it (the opposite of how it normally works, I guess?)

skOre · 7 May 2006

like the "Wireless Module output" ? (Group 'Module')

aetmos · 7 May 2006

skOre wrote: like the "Wireless Module output" ? (Group 'Module')

Yeah, I guess, but then what? What's the corresponding connector for the next level up?

skOre · 7 May 2006

No no, wireless links only work downwards (except for (V) wireless links who work upwards... backwards 😀)

Sorry if I got you wrong there 😉

aetmos · 7 May 2006

(except for (V) wireless links who work upwards... backwards...)

I'm not sure I understand you...are you saying that there is a wireless link that works upwards/backwards? What's a "(V) wireless link"?

skOre · 7 May 2006

We really ought to have smilies for the connectors... I was talking about the (V)-type connector (dubbed 'view'), which in contrast to all other connectors works backwards. Thus of course, wireless connections with this link type work backwards as well.

oddson · 8 May 2006

Wireless view connectors don't work 'backwards' either. You connect views downward through a schematic with the same rules as other wireless.

Wireless connectors connectors transmit downwards and recieve upwards in the hierarchy.

The only difference with view is that data seems to go both ways in any view connector. You send the details of a view downard but the view itself appears upwards through the schematic against the usual flow of information in the input/output metaphor.

To make things just a little more complicated, wireless 'Outputs' (the ones that actully say "Output" on their icon instead of "Link") go up one level and then down from there... So a wireless output is equivalent to using a regular output connector and then a wireless link transmitter outside the module.

See this OSM.

aetmos · 8 May 2006

Ah, okay. Got it.

Thanks,

skOre · 8 May 2006

thanks for explaining it better than I ever could 😉 (really ought to sleep now)