I wanted to share this opinion on Hackaday about a topic that is the usefulness of a something that has become ubiquitous relatively fast.

This techonolgyy has a lot of potential, what do you think?

  • @Flipper@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    25 months ago

    Oh boy do I have something for you. The single pair ethernet standards. Connect 8 devices on the same line as a bus.

    • Dale'sDeadBug
      link
      fedilink
      English
      15 months ago

      Didn’t realize that was part of the spec. But wouldn’t that be 4 devices? 2 wires per device for tx/rx and power +/-.

      • @Flipper@feddit.de
        link
        fedilink
        English
        3
        edit-2
        5 months ago

        No. It’s a single twisted pair wire to connect at least 8 devices over a minimum distance of 25m. However the speed is only 10MBit. The spec is called base10-t1s

    • @frezik@midwest.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      15 months ago

      That would only allow PoE+, which limits devices to 25.5W. Speed would be limited to 100Mbps. Still enough for lights, though.