Swordfish

I've got a few working Swordfish projects now that gather all kinds of data that's accessible to the user by GSM. I mostly used the PIC18FK22 and Quectel M35 for that.

The question is, whats the shortest way to connect my projects to the net instead of GSM? ie. Is there a tiny Swordfish web server project somewhere?

I noticed that Jerry Messina had kindly posted an Ethernet interface module which (I think) was tested on an Olimex PIC-WEB.

Does this mean in theory I could use Jerrys code in a second PIC on one of my project PCBs to connect to the Olimex and hence the net?

Sorry if this is a dumb question, I haven't ventured into the Internet area before the code all looked too big and complex. Advice appreciated.

You can merge your code directly in the same chip used for ethernet. Your firmware can use the SF ethernet library as any other library.

http://www.sfcompiler.co.uk/wiki/pmwiki ... r.Ethernet

This is also worth checking out

http://www.sfcompiler.co.uk/wiki/pmwiki ... User.W5500

I've also worked with the ESP8266 WiFi chip with Firewing with good results. Depends what you want to do I guess...

Thanks for advice, will investigate further.

Hi,
Then there is also the W5100 chip with its module WIZ811MJ here http://www.sfcompiler.co.uk/wiki/pmwiki ... User.W5100

Well Ive dived in and bought some WIZ550io from Digikey since they're next day delivery.

If you have time - whats the difference between using the WIZ550io which sounds like it will work OK and the WIZ5100 ? In beginners language

Hi,
surely the W5500 is the best choice.
The W5500 allows you to not use a local buffer because it has a better memory management.
The W5100 is more popular and the price (from China) is more convenient.

W5500
- RAM 32KB ( 16 RX & 16 TX)
- 8 sockets
- Only SPI
- Few pins
- a more simplified management of buffer compared to W5100

W5100
- RAM 16KB ( 8 RX & 8 TX )
- 4 sockets.
- SPI and paralell
- Many many pins
- there is a difference in the operations to do when there is a buffer RX overrun