nuttx-apps/examples/tcp_ipc_client/README.md
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# Client TCP
## What's this?
This program consists of a client socket & custom messages that send data (hex-string formatted data) to a server (tcp_ipc_server).
Then, tcp_ipc_server send this data over LoraWAN (using Radioenge LoRaWAN module). It means using TCP/IP sockets as IPC channel to ensure controlled access to LoRaWAN connectivity.
The goals of using this approach to send LoRaWAN data are:
* Having a solid and reliable infrastructure to ensure IPC works fine for multiple applications simultaneously
* Having the possibility to host different IoT projects and solutions that use LPWAN in a single ESP32
* Having the possibility to validate, test and debug multiple IoT projects and solutions at the same time, under the same connectivity conditions (same signal strength, same antenna, same modem/transceiver, etc.)
Both client and server work on local network scope.
## How do I use this?
In order to test tcp_ipc_client & tcp_ipc_server together, there are two ways to proceed:
1) Init server manually (command: SERVER &), and after successfull server init, also init client manually (CLIENT 127.0.0.1)
2) init server automatically after boot using NuttShell start up scripts (check: https://nuttx.apache.org/docs/latest/applications/nsh/installation.html#nuttshell-start-up-scripts )
## Additional info
Both tcp_ipc_client and tcp_ipc_server examples have been full covered in NuttX International Workshop 2022. You can watch the full presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr0OfTt1KeY
The tcp_ipc_server and tcp_ipc_client examples have been developed by Flavio Ipirranga and Pedro Bertoleti from Instituto de Pesquisas Eldorado (IPE) in Brazil.