Image, wireless, eeprom and internet
Hello everyone.
I recently finished my Egg Incubator + Thermobox with food and water automation (Cost of about 55euro including 60 day electricity compared to starting price of 90euro just for manual 16 egg turning.) Since this went very well I thought why not make an agricultural machine?
Yet I am having some problems. I used a character lcd 16x2 which was great because the incubator was on autopilot and that meant i didnt do anything. I want to know how to connect the propeller with a VGA port and display nice UI to a 17in screen. Has anyone got a wiring scheme and some simple C code.
Another point is the range. Since farms are not small I need some type of connection between the props. I have a pair of xbees s2 yet I dont know how I should program them using the XCTU (If there is someone willing to show it to me I would be thankful). A solution to that programming is using xbee s1, but I am not sure if this is a solution. Bluetooth maybe? Using xbees i want also to programm the props, an update for example. Is it possible?
Eeprom is about the data saving, for example a statistical analysis of the sunlight per day or the rainning season. How to write and read and re-write etc?
And of course internet. I know it needs an ethernet of wifi connection yet how to connect and what it takes to do this? A simple page with a UI that will inform the farmer for the basics i.e. if it is rainning, if the food in the barn in low etc. I was thinking that the Rpi would be an easier at least for setting it to a 192 page, yet i have to make the Rpi and prop router to communicate.
thank you!
I recently finished my Egg Incubator + Thermobox with food and water automation (Cost of about 55euro including 60 day electricity compared to starting price of 90euro just for manual 16 egg turning.) Since this went very well I thought why not make an agricultural machine?
Yet I am having some problems. I used a character lcd 16x2 which was great because the incubator was on autopilot and that meant i didnt do anything. I want to know how to connect the propeller with a VGA port and display nice UI to a 17in screen. Has anyone got a wiring scheme and some simple C code.
Another point is the range. Since farms are not small I need some type of connection between the props. I have a pair of xbees s2 yet I dont know how I should program them using the XCTU (If there is someone willing to show it to me I would be thankful). A solution to that programming is using xbee s1, but I am not sure if this is a solution. Bluetooth maybe? Using xbees i want also to programm the props, an update for example. Is it possible?
Eeprom is about the data saving, for example a statistical analysis of the sunlight per day or the rainning season. How to write and read and re-write etc?
And of course internet. I know it needs an ethernet of wifi connection yet how to connect and what it takes to do this? A simple page with a UI that will inform the farmer for the basics i.e. if it is rainning, if the food in the barn in low etc. I was thinking that the Rpi would be an easier at least for setting it to a 192 page, yet i have to make the Rpi and prop router to communicate.
thank you!
Comments
I'm not sure whether Propeller C currently supports VGA displays. Perhaps someone else will comment. Spin does support all sorts of displays as well as the RN-XV. For wiring diagrams, look at the schematics for any of the Propeller boards with VGA connectors like the Propeller Board of Education or the Propeller Project Board USB. The schematics are posted on the product pages for these boards. The Board of Education also has a socket for the XBEE which works with the RN-XV as well.