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Briefly, what I need is a means of using WiFi to connect a USB output on a device in one room to a USB input in another room. Distance and wiring would make cable impractical. If you are interested in the why, read on!
I manage the village web site which at one point featured real time weather information used by various people wanting to make use of local beach and cliffs. The weather station, a Davis one, stored the data and it periodically sent the data via a USB cable to the PC which in turn processed it and added it to the web site where it was displayed. The problem was that the PC, an old one, ran 24/7 to do so and the power consumption/year was near £100. The village parish council paid but after the PC died it was not considered worthwhile finding another and paying £100 a year to provide weather data mainly used by hang gliders.
I am now considering an alternative and that is to use the PC I use for other things to do the same thing and go for periodic updates of the weather pages on the web site. Cost is already incurred for other reasons, the PC is on almost all day, and near real time data would be adequate for most users. The room where the data gathering display module is, is too far from my study where the PC is, not to mention the need to conceal the cable. The module data output is USB 2.0 as is the PC input. So I need a two gizmos - one to connect to the weather module USB port, send the data via WiFi to USB port on the computer.
A pair of AP Link Nano Wireless MU-Mimo USB 2.0 should work, unless someone has experience of something better.
I manage the village web site which at one point featured real time weather information used by various people wanting to make use of local beach and cliffs. The weather station, a Davis one, stored the data and it periodically sent the data via a USB cable to the PC which in turn processed it and added it to the web site where it was displayed. The problem was that the PC, an old one, ran 24/7 to do so and the power consumption/year was near £100. The village parish council paid but after the PC died it was not considered worthwhile finding another and paying £100 a year to provide weather data mainly used by hang gliders.
I am now considering an alternative and that is to use the PC I use for other things to do the same thing and go for periodic updates of the weather pages on the web site. Cost is already incurred for other reasons, the PC is on almost all day, and near real time data would be adequate for most users. The room where the data gathering display module is, is too far from my study where the PC is, not to mention the need to conceal the cable. The module data output is USB 2.0 as is the PC input. So I need a two gizmos - one to connect to the weather module USB port, send the data via WiFi to USB port on the computer.
A pair of AP Link Nano Wireless MU-Mimo USB 2.0 should work, unless someone has experience of something better.
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