> On Apr 10, 2016, at 1:05 AM, Miika Turkia <miika.tur...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Yes, now that I have a working BLE connection from the C.H.I.P to my iPhone >> I would have to agree - it's not exactly fast. >> But then again, the information we need to transfer isn't all that large, >> either. The compressed XML for me seems to average under 4kB per >> dive/divecomputer. That seems to imply that we could transfer a dive every >> couple of seconds or so. Definitely worth to play with. I'd much rather not >> mess with a wifi connection if I can avoid it. Since we can't assume that >> public wifi is available for the C.H.I.P to connect to we'd have to create a >> point to point wifi connection with the phone / tablet. Messy, complicated, >> error prone. > > If the CHIP acts as a wifi access point, the setup should be quite easy. Just > need to initially configure wpa passphrase on the device and connect to it > using mobile/laptop/whatnot. I have had too many problems with bt connections > to count it reliable but wifi works generally quite well.
Over-engineering alert. No, we don't need to create a WiFi hotspot on the CHIP to transfer a few kB of data. The more complex we make this, the longer it will take to get there, the more error prone its use will be. /D _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
