Proprietary radio protocol

[mathir]

Hello,
There is a lack of documentation and libraries to support the radio peripheral. Is it the manufacturer's intention that the radio chip should not be used for proprietary protocols? Is it possible to find somewhere low-level libraries for handling the radio chip, on which you can implement your own solutions?

Many thanks!

[ESP_Sprite]

The radio hardware is proprietary and not documented, you're supposed to use the WiFi and low-level BLE drivers as your entry point. This indeed means other protocols cannot be supported, but given that a lot of the lower-level framing and encoding is done in hardware, I don't think you'd have much luck even if the radio hardware was fully documented.

[mathir]

The radio hardware is proprietary and not documented, you're supposed to use the WiFi and low-level BLE drivers as your entry point. This indeed means other protocols cannot be supported, but given that a lot of the lower-level framing and encoding is done in hardware, I don't think you'd have much luck even if the radio hardware was fully documented.

Thank, you.

May I ask what is the reason for the lack of such documentation?

[ESP_Sprite]

There's a bunch, ranging from potential issues with regulatory bodies if we give everyone the option to hack the radio and potentially output non-compliant RF, to us not wanting to make it too easy for competitors to copy our hardware.