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Hi,

I am wrirting code for ANT mesh network and using bidirection shared channel.

I am send data master to slave any time but data send slave to master is not possible any time ,it possibal only polling time(any ack or burst event received time in slave side ).

if any solution available for dtat send slave to master any time?


Regards,
Himansu

     

Hi Himansu,

Correct, ANT shared channels only allow slave->master messaging while the master is polling the slave's shared address. This is to prevent interference with other slaves, and to allow the master to burst/ack message without interference from other slave's acks.

What are your topology requirements? Is increasing the polling rate/channel period not enough to satisfy your latency requirements? Do you also have strict power or bandwidth requirements?

Continuous scanning mode would allow many master channels to communicate at any time.
A background scanning channel would also be able to receive broadcast messages at any time.
Opening a regular master channel alongside the shared master channel and pairing to that could also be used (with potential interference as multiple slaves could attempt to message at the same time).

Cheers