Transparent GPIO Question

[bowen303]

Crossconnect can transparently send information from uart0 or uart1 to another device, but what, if any, transport mechanism is available for something that may not be qualified as serial? Is it possible to do the same thing with a GPIO pin? (say for instance something that is just bits of data?) (Is it possible to do this with uniConnect?)

If that isn't feasible then what if you have a low/high state coming in to one pin, is it possible to transmit that same state to a different device? (and would it be fast enough to mimic that data stream from one device to another?) I only mention this later part because I have seen a serial transceiver device that uses an infrared signal. It works by watching a pin and when that changes from low to high it generates an IR signal. The matching receiver picks up the signal and sends the matching pin on the device high. (I can't vouch for how well it works, but I'm willing to think outside the box at this point.)

Thanks for any input anyone might have on these odd questions. :)

[kbanks]

One node can monitor a pin (or pins) and report them to another node, who could mirror/echo those values out on another pin (or pins).

However, this would be done via RPC calls (not via the uniConnect() or crossConnect() functions).

Also, this would not be fast enough for something like "wireless IR".

[bowen303]

Thanks for the quick reply. I'll look into the RPC calls. I'm not actually trying to do anything with IR, just using it as an example with what it does with the data. :)