Emilio Monti / Mbed 2 deprecated BroadcastSend

Example message broadcasting

Diff: main.cpp

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+#include "mbed.h"
+#include "EthernetInterface.h"
+
+const int BROADCAST_PORT = 58083;
+
+int main() {
+    EthernetInterface eth;
+    eth.init(); //Use DHCP
+    eth.connect();
+    
+    UDPSocket sock;
+    sock.init();
+    sock.set_broadcasting();
+    
+    Endpoint broadcast;
+    broadcast.set_address("255.255.255.255", BROADCAST_PORT);
+    
+    char out_buffer[] = "very important data";
+    
+    while (true) {
+        printf("Broadcasting...\n");
+        sock.sendTo(broadcast, out_buffer, sizeof(out_buffer));
+        Thread::wait(1000);
+    }
+}