At 5/3/2008 21:47, you wrote: >Re: Doug Hall RBI-1 > >Hi Bob, > >The problem is we paid so much for the fricken' box that none >of us want to get up off ours because we'd never be able to >ask enough money to make it worth our while.
How much were they new? ~$400? > It would hard to >impossible to clone the RBI-1 unless you could work a deal to >buy the already programmed processor chip from Doug Hall, >probably via Duane. Even though the unit is out of production >I'd bet they're not going to share the code yet. It would be >interesting to find out if they'd even sell the pre-programmed >processor chip. I doubt it, since the processor is ~90% of the unit. My approach would be reverse-engineering, so there would be no dependency on the old, obsolete hardware (must be the reason they no longer sell the unit: processor no longer available & no easy migration path to new hardware). >Yeah, you could design your own but it's a lot of trouble >when every mfgr probably has a different format, connector, >data signaling level/method. Yes, this would be the obvious hard part. My immediate interest is to "decode" the data stream & establish the protocol coming out of the controller. Once that's done, each radio's control format can be individually addressed. >Probably better to let the various Repeater Controller Mfgrs >have a go at building it into their controllers. Resistance is >futile... Hasn't really happened yet, so I don't expect it to. Bob NO6B
