A whish Could it be possible to add a component to FC10 for these ASK module. I know Ben have for a while ago started make a component, but we never hear from him again
I was wondering if it would be possible to create a Flowcode component macro for these small modules, both the TX and RX versions. Or is that simply not practical, and should I just forget about the idea?
I think these modules could be useful in many different projects, so having them as Flowcode components would be a great addition.
They look similar those cheap (really cheap) modules available from all the usual places and if so, they are truly terrible. They may not be the same though so I'm not going to put you off.
The ones I looked at a few years back were probably OK-ish for simple On/Off over short distances but if sending any data then it quickly got lost. Very simple to use as basically whatever you feed at the input to Tx will appear at the output of the Rx (so sending 1010 at the Tx input should see 1010 at the Rx output).
The ones I used basically were On/Off, in that the output was High for as long as the input was High. ISM has rules prohibiting the time something can transmit, so be careful. If I remember correctly my receive circuit waited for a coded signal. If it detected a high then it waited x-mS to see if the next bit in sequence was present, repeating until it received all "bits" and if valid did something.
There are many better alternatives for not much more cost, including LoRa options that will do up to a few Km.