I have seen discussion about an ESP32 based AP in some of the threads. Not sure how close to reality this is. What I am after is an AP that isn’t based on a RPI (too much power). My backhaul would be serial, so presumably less complexity than an all singing/dancing AP. As I understand it you can’t communicate station to station without being joined to an AP. Any updates on this?
The other thing was I also saw a post about open sourcing. Does this not apply to the code that generates the firmware blob? Was there any thought to publishing the SPI protocol to the modules?
A release supporting this will be avaialable soon!
For our microcontroller software support, this is accurate. Our Linux solutions do offer “adhoc” connection modes but this isn’t used very often.
We will never open source the chip firmware (eg mm6108.bin). These discussions were referring to the libmorse.a files you will find in the various mm-iot-sdk repositories.
For our hardware which is currently available, the interface to the chip is fairly complex, as it expects much of the 802.11 mac layer to be running on the host processor (in the microcontroller space, this is what you will find in libmorse.a).
If you want to use something off the shelf, then HT-H7608 V2 Wi-Fi HaLow 802.11ah Router / Gateway – Heltec Automation advertises 200-300mA at 5V (no experience myself, but I’ve noticed a few people on the forum have been using Heltec APs). You might be able to drive that a bit lower if you make sure to turn off the 2.4.
