greetings all.<div><br></div><div>recently, i have outgrown the xbee wireless trancievers i had been using, based on their ease of use.  i have switched over to roving networks &quot;RN-XV&quot; wifi trancievers and interface 3 of them to a wireless router running dd-wrt.  in windows, i use a trial commercial software called &quot;Serial/ip&quot; which allows you to select serialport numbers and route tcp streams into them as if they were regular serial ports.  this works...kinda.  the onsceen sensor feedback in PD is laggy and sketchy and very unstable but the redeeming qualty is that if i do a program change or or some thing that is supposed to go from the wireless system---&gt; puredata----&gt;back to the wireless system, like lights, it is instant!  so i feel that if i can get everything to work at this level, the system will be wonderful to play, less expensive and more robust.</div>
<div><br></div><div>but the serial connection is the hold up and the bottle neck.  other serial reidrectors/or vsp&#39;s on windows, are wierd and are not made for realtime musical performance.  in linux i am a complete noob and i toy with it for a week, get frustrated and go back to windows; BUT, i am very willing to put in the effort if i can find a way to  either:</div>
<div><br></div><div>1. find an existing tcp to serial connection software that is open (so i can share it with the code), robust and fast, even if there is a learning curve.</div><div><br></div><div>2. bypass comport since that &quot;seems&quot; to be the object that explicitly wanting a serial connection.  i was thinking that maybe i can dump it straight from the tcp connection into the arduino object but after where the comport object is situated in the dataflow of the patch.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am fully aware that i may not even be asking the right questions even...thats how little i know about this subject right now.  the goal is to dump the firmata formatted data from the 3 arduinos that make up my instrument, into pd in a stable, fast elegant manner.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any insight is appreciated because now i have gotten rid of the xbees and am fully commited to this wifi trajectory ( i do stuff like that or i&#39;d never let go of the &quot;sure/working&quot; thing for the &quot;would be cool if i invested the time/energy&quot; thing). i think these wifi trancievers will MURDER the xbee&#39;s once they are configured right.  i am the bottleneck in this regard.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Onyx<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div><a href="http://www.onyx-ashanti.com" target="_blank">www.onyx-ashanti.com</a></div><br></div><a title="phone number" style="color:rgb(0,0,63);background-color:rgb(255,255,191)"><br>
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