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Hardware support => RF - Range - Antennas - RFM69 library => Topic started by: brolly759 on October 11, 2018, 02:42:12 PM

Title: RF69 and RF95/96 compatibility
Post by: brolly759 on October 11, 2018, 02:42:12 PM
Anyone have success interfacing the 2 different chips to talk to each other? RF69 in FSK mode and RF95/96 in FSK mode?
Title: Re: RF69 and RF95/96 compatibility
Post by: Felix on October 11, 2018, 03:59:09 PM
I have not, although I'd be interested more as a curiosity than a real use case.
Do you actually have a use case, some kind of backwards compatible mode where you cannot service/upgrade existing modules with RFM69?
Title: Re: RF69 and RF95/96 compatibility
Post by: brolly759 on October 11, 2018, 04:33:37 PM
I do have a use-case. There are a lot of "Lora" sensors coming overseas as well as devices that use LoRa modules inside of them which is basically RFM96. If I can get RFM96 then I can port that over to the Lora sensors and now use an RFM69 hub with a "lora" hardware and not need to invent the sensor side.
Title: Re: RF69 and RF95/96 compatibility
Post by: Felix on October 11, 2018, 04:50:17 PM
Wouldn't you have to share the time between the 2?
How about just using a separate module for RFM69?
That would give you 100% uptime for both.
Title: Re: RF69 and RF95/96 compatibility
Post by: brolly759 on October 11, 2018, 05:23:40 PM
I am re purposing the module (RF96) to only do FSK so I dont need any extra hardware, I can convert a LORA type sensor to FSK RFM69 type network. The only issue I see is there is no encryption on the LoRa. The encryption is coming from the MCU and not the RF stack. So maybe a phase1 is just getting the 2 radio's to talk without encryption.
Title: Re: RF69 and RF95/96 compatibility
Post by: Felix on October 12, 2018, 01:38:31 PM
There are software libraries to do 2 way hashing/encryption.