Emilio Monti / Mbed 2 deprecated BroadcastSend

Example message broadcasting

main.cpp

Committer:
emilmont
Date:
2013-03-01
Revision:
0:e18c3e98ed3d

File content as of revision 0:e18c3e98ed3d:

#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);
    }
}