The Xport looks pretty interesting. Now I need to figure out something cool to do with the darned thing.
I've downloaded the Xport User's Guide, and am reading the configuration instructions.
If one of you Internet guru's can sanity check the following connection idea, I'd appreciate it.
First of all, I have an always-on DSL connection, with dynamic IP periodically changed by my ISP. I have a wireless router and a Buffalo Linkstation NAS drive, with a built-in FTP server.
I use a free dyndns.org account to provide my FTP server a URL in the format ftp..dyndns.org. I've configured my router to send an email to dyndns.org each time my IP address changes. That always keeps ftp..dyndns.org pointing to my FTP server.
In my router, I've mapped port 21 to the hard IP address I've assigned the Linkstation.
To my utter amazement, it all seems to work.
So, would the same thing work to put the Xport on the air as a web server?
I'm thinking, assign the Xport a hard IP address. In the router, map port 80 to the Xport's IP. Would a connection to www..dyndns.org forward a connection to my IP address of the moment on port 80?
If so, it looks like I have a solid way of connecting the Xport to the net.
If that all works, the question becomes "what to do with it?" I'm open to ideas.
I gather I can load web pages. Can I export a Processing app to a web page, then load that page into the sever to get something intelligent running? And would such an app be able to talk to the Xport's serial port (and thus, to the Arduino?) Or is there an easier way of providing some automation?
A lot of this is probably RTFM stuff. Some of these questions might be answered in the User's Guide, but it didn't look like I'd find all the info there.
I'd appreciate any help and discussion you're willing to provide.
Thanks!
Tom