Communicating with Edison over UDP

[Aaron_N_1]

I am setting up a communications path to the Edison over WiFi, and I would like to use raw UDP packets for general purpose and high-speed transfer of data. I am relatively new to the Edison but not to programming. I am looking for advice on how to setup the Edison to communicate with a host on the same network. Is there a library I can use to send and receive UDP packets to a host computer?

I see iotkit-comm provides data publish and subscribe options, but I am looking for general purpose communications, such as is possible with UNIX using sockets or Windows .NET using .NET libraries. Is there a similar library available on the Edison for raw UDP?

Thanks in advance,  Aaron

[Stan_G_]

FWIW most of the time when I wanna do something like this on the Edison, I ignore Edison and just look for Linux - the following may be useful

http://www.binarytides.com/programming-udp-sockets-c-linux/

In a month or so I will be looking for something to perform bidirectional comms with a mac running osx - I believe I can configure (or get another instance of eclipse) to get native mac code to run - (I hate x-code with a passion.....).

I will be following what you are doing (and wish you the best of success) - because I may wish to unashamibally (sic) leech your code at some stage.

Stan

[Matthias_H_Intel]

agree with Stan - from my side I used UDP sockets from within C, C++, Node.JS and Python on Edison fine. Haven't looked into Mono .NET but probably doable there as well. Just note: Linux socket programming is slightly different to Windows one (different header files ...)

Just the default busybox netcat "nc" on Edison doesn't come with udp (-u) support. If you'd want to go via nc you'd have to install a more powerful netcat version 

[Matthias_H_Intel]

... and there is lots of information available online

e.g. Node.JS: https://nodejs.org/api/dgram.html

Python: http://pymotw.com/2/socket/udp.html

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