use of a wireless dongle with myRIO 1950

[kayjulio]

hello guys, am just inquiring whether any one has ever tried connecting a wireless dongle to myRIO 1950. currently am working with this equipment but trying so hard to dodge cable connectivity. thanks

julius,

makerere university

ilabs@MAK, UGANDA

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[billko]

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@kayjulio wrote:

hello guys, am just inquiring whether any one has ever tried connecting a wireless dongle to myRIO 1950. currently am working with this equipment but trying so hard to dodge cable connectivity. thanks

julius,

makerere university

ilabs@MAK, UGANDA

reply to kayjulio@gmail.com

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Maybe you could set up a wireless access point and then have the equipment plug into that?

[Hooovahh]

What kind of wireless dongle, you mean a Wifi device?  What is wrong with using the Wifi built into the myRIO?  Another company announced at NI week a MyHub device that adds more USB, and a physical ethernet connection to the myRIO.  I think the company was Stratom but I can't seem to find anything on it at the moment.

[altenbach]

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@Hooovahh wrote:

What is wrong with using the Wifi built into the myRIO?

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The '1950 is the board only option, no WIFI.

[altenbach]

I guess out of the box it can only do networking over USB, which is limiting.

I have a few very small USB dongles at home, but I am not sure how I can test them. I only have a 1900 myrio, which already does networking so I need to find a way to disable that....

In the meantime, have a look at this discussion, which seems to discuss the same problem. 😄