Thread: Help with linking OI and RC over Internet....
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Re: Help with linking OI and RC over Internet....
Also don't forget the IFI communications system tries to maintain a sync at about 38Hz, latency induced by the internet transmit may cause timing issues and force an RC shutdown due to "unstable communications". The radio port is designed to control E-wave modems and I don't believe it'd work connected straight to this device, and as others pointed out the tether is sensed by the direct connections of certain pins which the adapter probably doesn't emulate (Why would it? it's non-spec).

I think pairing up the OI/RC works, as long as you have a remote kill switch. Talking to the RC via serial port with those adapters is likely to work much better.
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