rfchat

A simple chat app for demonstrating communication over 433Mhz. Accompanies the tutorial in MagPi #75. See https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/ for further details.

Also includes send and receive utilties based on https://github.com/milaq/rpi-rf/ where more information can be found on using the Raspberry Pi for 433Mhz communication.

System Requirements

• Raspberry Pi (any model)
• Raspian Stretch (including Lite)

Installation

Pre-requisities:

$ cd
$ sudo apt install python3-pip
$ pip3 install rpi-rf

Main install:

$ cd
$ git clone https://github.com/mrpjevans/rfchat.git

Usage

Chat app

python3 ~/rfchat/rfchat.py

Ctrl+c to exit

Test Receive

python3 ~/rfchat/receive.py

Ctrl+c to exit

Test Send

python3 ~/rfchat/send.py n

Where 'n' is an integer