Smart Phone Serial Terminal

g3cwi

I was wondering if it might be possible (or even easy?) to use a smart phone as a serial terminal to change parameters on a Prop system. I have an old iPhone (3G). Anyone done this?

Regards

Richard

codeviper

I do use an android to talk to an AVR via usb virtual com port.
but I have no clue how to do it on iPhone
I did see an iphone talking to an arduino via wifi.
so I bet getting a prop to talk to an iPhone can be done, the question is how directly can you do it.

Mike Green

Unfortunately, it's very difficult to get an iPhone to talk to anything other than an "officially sanctioned" iPhone peripheral except via WiFi. You could probably use a Spinneret or YBox2 with a WiFi to Ethernet bridge to do this. I know Bean put together a Basic interpreter that ran on a Spinneret and, although it wasn't tested with an iPhone, it ought to work with one using an App designed for use as a Unix / Linux maintenance terminal that can talk to any Telnet service.

xanadu

There are apps like this - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/get-console/id412067943?mt=8

Then you can build a cable by hacking an old one like this - http://namedfork.net/iphone/serial

Of course none of this would run the Prop IDE, but could allow you to do some debugging etc. I haven't tried any of this, but I did just get a wired LAN adapter for my iDevices and it works excellent. I guess serial is next, then maybe I can stop lugging around a laptop.

max72

check roving networks serial wifi units.
You can telnet as if it was an usb cable. I tested it with win, linux and android.
You can have adhoc or infrastructure, so if your propeller accepts parameters from a serial terminal you can do it from anywhere.
I just tested them and they are very nice. The manual is good.
If you use the X-bee footprint remember to get the adapter (2mm pitch..), and maybe the usb adapter for easier programming.
I'm writing a short description of the key parameters, if I'll ever finish I'll post it on the wireless forum.
Massimo

prof_braino

Any terminal application can talk to propforth, we do it all the time. I used an iPhone 1 to do the intial testing, the screen is very hard to read.

The GO stuff allows the linux command line to operate as the propforth command line, this might be what you want.

There is also the Android Prop Bridge from MK Borri, see the NASA videos. I haven't done that yet but its on the list.