Using an intermediate transmission of rs-232 data over esp for injestion into homeassistant?

[Mahko_Mahko]

I’m no expert but I would think it should be fine. I did something similar here.

I scored a Scorbot ER iii

I tried and abandoned a “pass through set-up”. My initial solution used a “pass-through” set-up, where by a “man-in-the-middle” sat between the Pendant and the robot (pendant port). It could listen to messages the Pendant sent and inject it’s own. [image] Initially this seemed to work quite well. But once I started adding more processing that the messages had to go through (to track what was happening in the pendant messages), I found that the latency seemed to cause communications issues. …

Do you just need to read data? Not inject commands?

@mulcmu came up with this approach which can simplify things.

And there’s Man In The Middle approaches around too.

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