Accessing the imp's 2.4GHz transceiver?

Feature Requests & Bug Reports
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seems like the radio in the imp is currently not accessible from the API(understandably).

I am currently trying to build a little wireless sensor network and I was planning on using 433.92Mhz radios in the sensors, however this means adding a 433.92 Mhz receiver to the imp…So i got to thinking “wouldn’t it be great if the imp somehow made the radio available to an application?” that way i could just use a 2.4GHz transmitter in my sensor(s) and somehow have RX handler functions in the Imp like :
handleRX(TXid,message){…}
sendTX(TXid,message){…}

… Well hopefully, you get the idea…I’m not a HW guy but it’s a shame not to have access to that radio for something like this…

Do you guys think this makes sense?

2

What you want will not be possible with an Imp.

3

well currently no it’s not possible. but i suspect it’s mainly a matter of the imp designers not allowing access to it. my question is whether it would be considered as a possible feature…

4

It would be a whole other product and the hardware/firmware design doesn’t allow it.

5

As others have said, this isn’t possible. The radio is made by Broadcom, who do not expose it at a level below 802.11 - it has a hardware MAC which enforces 802.11 packet semantics and hence is really only useful for, well, talking wifi.