MicroP25RX Outside ?

[dcr_inc]

What would it take to mount the Micro Outside at my antenna?. I realize Cabinet, Power, Audio.. What would I need to remote the WIO?

 

[goldmyne99]

What would I need to remote the WIO?

Sounds like a neat project. When you say "remote the Wio", do you mean have the Wio inside with you?

 

[dcr_inc]

Yes.. Then you could still control the Micro.. The signal gain from NO coax loss would make it worth the work for me..

 

[dcr_inc]

It looks like there are only 4 traces going between the Micro and WIO..I wonder if the same data is on the USB as well

 

[goldmyne99]

..I wonder if the same data is on the USB as well

The usb does not currently have this data.
The Wio has Wifi. I have tested display and control of the P25RX via a web browser. That is one way to do remote control.

 

[btt]

It looks like there are only 4 traces going between the Micro and WIO..I wonder if the same data is on the USB as well

The signals are GND, 5V, and a SPI port (SCLK, MISO, MOSI, CS) for communications between the receiver and the display. The SPI port signals are single-ended. There would most likely be signal integrity issues for a long run. It could be done with some extra circuitry. Extra ESD protection would also need to be added for an outdoor application.

 

[FreqNout]

The Wio has Wifi.

The Wio also has plenty of GPIO pins that could control any number of things via WiFi at an outside location in addition to the btt radios. Like antenna switching or power supply, etc.

 

[dcr_inc]

Whats involved in enabling the WIO wifi?

 

[goldmyne99]

Whats involved in enabling the WIO wifi?

The Wifi module in the Wio Terminal requires a Seeed Studio firmware update before it can be used in any Arduino program (UF2 file) developed. It is not too hard to do. Seeed Studio has the FW and process Here

Once the Wifi firmware is updated, then an Arduino program would need to be created to use the Wifi to do the remote control. Seeed Studio also has examples here and here on how to write a Wio Terminal Wifi Arduino program. There are also many Arduino Wifi code examples on places like GitHub that could be used to do remote control and web servers.

For my Wio Terminal Wifi remote testing, I used "websockets" to display and control my P25RX via a web browser See this post. Doing the same with my MicroP25RX is on my list of fun projects.