Is it possible to replace a USB cable with two Xbees and do it wirelessly? Our group is trying to accomplish this and believe we could use an Xstick (PC end) and a Sparkfun breakout board with an Xbee module connected via a short USB cable to the peripheral.
Is this possible (with Xbee) at all?
Is it possible to replace a USB cable with two Xbees and do it wirelessly? Our group is trying to accomplish this and believe we could use an Xstick (PC end) and a Sparkfun breakout board with an Xbee module connected via a short USB cable to the peripheral.
Is this possible (with Xbee) at all?
Hi Greg,
If you connect an XStick or a Sparkfun breakout board to USB, the USB Host will recognize these as Serial ports. So in fact on the hosts a new RS232 port will be added.
If your application can talk through serial ports this might work, if your intention is to replace a USB cable in the sense that the computer on one end will recognize the USB device on the other end as native USB device, this will not be possible.
regards,
This just depends on the expectations of the data channel - for example USB can move megabytes-per-second … XBee cannot.
So if you mean you want to replace a USB link pretending to be an RS-232 cable at 9600 baud, yes that could work. But trying to use XBee to access a 500GB external hard-drive or web cam won’t work.