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This is a Manchester encoding RF library which works on Arduino and ATTiny.

Library supports:

various microcontrollers

• ATmega1284
• ATmega328
• ATmega8
• ATMega32U4
• ATtiny84 (44, 24)
• ATtiny85 (45, 85)

Various microcontroller's speed both RX and TX All microcontroller speeds between 1Mhz and 20Mhz are supported. The library has been tested with the following common speeds:

• 1Mhz
• 8Mhz
• 16Mhz

Various transmission speeds, the maximum transmition speed is mostly dependent on your microcontroller speed

• 300baud
• 600baud
• 1200baud
• 2400baud
• 4800baud
• 9600baud
• 19200baud

With this library you can sucessfully transmit data between various microcontrollers runnning at various speeds even if their clock speed drifts up to 100%. It's specifically designed to work with innacurate internal oscilator.

Transmition speed is determined by the speed of the microcontroller. Following speeds can be achieved using direct port manipulation. Receiver: freq -> max receive speed 1Mhz -> 1200baud 8Mhz -> 9600baud 16Mhz -> 19200baud

Although this library is using timers, PWM functionality related to that timer will be preserved, PWM frequency will increase though. Timer prescaler will be set to 1 (no prescaler) and therefore PWM frequency will be F_CPU/256.

Standard Arduino digitalRead() and digitalWrite() functions are extremely slow. For faster comminication it is necessary to use direct port manipulation.

http://blog.solidremote.com/post/rf-module-external-antenna-design.aspx

The library has been tested with common 315Mhz and 433Mhz transmitters using ASK OOK. Tips to improve your transmit distance: Attaching an antenna will greatly improve transmit distance (from few cm to few m) for 315Mhz use 23.81 cm straight wire, for 433Mhz use 17.28cm straight wire as antenna. If possible keep the wire straight, away from ground wire, and away from the rest of the circuit and battery pack. Transmitter can use anything from 3.3V to 12V. Increasing voltage will increase transmit distance. If you are using voltage regulator, attach transmitter directly to the battery. Receiver needs 5V, it doesn't work on 3.3V

Speed: I was able to achieve 19200 bauds between two 16Mhz Arduinos, or 2400 bauds between two 1Mhz ATTiny85, you can try different speeds to see which works the best for you.

Full duplex: for bidirectional communication use both 315Mhz and 433Mhz transmitters. This way they can transmit at the same time without interfering with each other. If you have just one type, wait for receiver to finish receiving before transmitting.

• Library originally from carl47 on this thread
• Contributions from mchr3k, Mike Cano