Re: Inexperienced and need to find/design 2ch remote control+audio receiver combo

I would look at Nordic Semiconductor. They have low power RF chipsets
and data rates fast enough to support spoken audio. Their newest
transceiver part, nRF24L01, would be able to address to up to 6
different 'channels'. www.nordicsemi.no
-G

Steve Bergman wrote:
Hi,

I'm not sure this is the right place to ask this, and pointers to the
appropriate place would be appreciated.

I'm a programmer, not an expert in matters RF. But due to factors
beyond my control, I have been called upon to make some decisions about
the design of a device because "I'm a technical guy". ;-)

The device would be worn like a name tag (which limits the size,
obviously. Perhaps 10cm x10cm x 3cm maximum) and be issued upon entry
to a public place. For example, a
shopping mall. It would be battery powered and need to be able to
receive and play voice quality audio. I would need a range of at
least a few hundred feet. (The transmitter can be off the shelf and
just needs to accept audio input from any standard "line out" from,
say, a CD player.) It also would have a separate receiver (from a
separate transmitter) for remote control of an LED.

I'm looking for some basic info like what broadcast type (AM, FM) and
frequency would be appropriate (and legal) for this use.

I believe that something like 418MHz or 434MHz AM would be appropriate
for the remote control part. But I'm really clueless regarding the
audio. I'm trying to avoid doing something really stupid like using
49MHz and having walkie-talkie's cutting into the broadcast.

Also, I would need some sort of protection against malicious
individuals cutting into the broadcast with their own transmitters.
This is difficult, as I need to be able to send audio and activate the
remote controls on all the tags simultaneously. So I can't use any
sort of rolling code protection. A fixed code is the best I can think
of. For the remote control, I've found a transmitter receiver pair
based on the Ming tws-434 and rws-434 chips with a fixed security code
that looks usable.

An all in one board that had the 2 channel remote and audio receiver
all together in either kit or preassembled form would be a godsend.

Again, apologies if this is not the appropriate group, but I am out of
my depth and would really appreciate some pointers.

Thanks for any enlightenment,
Steve

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