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The point to point topology in the beta's offers a lot of chanlenges.
Are there already ideas to do something with FT-cars in clouds and awarenes discovery.
The last topic because not all the cars need to be in range of each other.

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Sorry but we do not understand this "QUESTION"

ft

Hello Dirk,

Yesterday I was reading the manual and my old notes about BT inter-interface communication.
And I got curious about the actual situation.

Introduction:
See also the description about the BT connection in the manual.
About the inter-interface connectivity, Fischertechnik is promising three things:
1) Point to point topology,
2) RoboPro program element for establishing and breaking down connections,
3) RoboPro program element for transmitting and receiving information.

(note 1) decentralized, because of the pairing nature of Bluetooth there is no master (router) like there is in the RoboInterface RF situation.
(note 2) I never saw these program elements in RoboPro up to 3.0.6, only a Menu Item but that is not a program element.
(note 3) Is partial implemented but still not fully operational.

However based on the description I have some challenges ideas for exploring and discovering this point to point concept.
In a point to point topology there is a change that a TX-C is not always direct accessible to all other TX-C in the Radio Call network. However in that case another TX-C could act as a temporally bridge.

The dynamic connection option with the "program elements for the establishing and breaking down of connections" will offer a nice opportunity to create a cloud for example cars-model which is discovering the area.
An area that is bigger than the 2*Pi* radius in the old RoboInt RF star situation with in the middle the router (master).

Background for the idea:
In this concept, not all cars need to be in each other "Radio Call” range.
A kind of trail searching but not with a black line but with connections.
This is the very strong point of the point to point topology as describe in the manual.

The old start-topology with a start-manager in the "RoboInterface with RF" does not have this ability.
To deploy and test the new Bluetooth point to point topology, I can imagine that you have already a test setting that explorer the Bluetooth Radio Call concept and these ideas.

So my question is what are the experiences with this kind of test setup?

Hi Dirk,
Can fischertechnik confirm that the "point to point topology" as describte in the Robo TX Controller manual will be implemented? This as promissed in the planning.

Hi Dirk,
I got the answer this afternoon already with the new beta.
No.

.. so the question is already answered.

ft