-------------------------------------------------- From: "Olin Lathrop" Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 8:51 PM To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." Subject: Re: [EE] Radio Light Switch > Oli Glaser wrote: >> but I'm not an expert on the RF >> side of things, so was looking at rfPICs and zigbee, neither of which >> I have used before. Any advice from anyone on this front before I >> start spending would be most appreciated. > > rfPICs are very low level, and Zigbee comes with a lot of baggage. Since > this is for a one off, I would either use some simple modules or > integrated > chips that some of the encoding/decoding for you. I agree, from a quick look at Zigbee, although I wouldn't mind getting to grips with it at some point, for this project it would be far too much messing about. A module that deals with the basics looks like the quickest most painless way of doing this, if not quite the cheapest maybe. If it was just one switch it could be a lot more simple(no data on carrier, just OOK driven flip flop or something), but some sort of networking is needed here I think. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist