# DroneNet board specification

**URL:** <https://forum.botblox.org/t/dronenet-board-specification/186>\
**Category:** BotBlox Hardware\
**Created:** [March 22, 2024, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.botblox.org/t/dronenet-board-specification/186 "2024-03-22T14:16:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Paulrobson27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Paulrobson27](https://forum.botblox.org/u/Paulrobson27)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.botblox.org/t/dronenet-board-specification/186/1 "2024-03-22T14:16:57Z")

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Hi, I’m interested in your DroneNet for Ardupilot board. Do you have a spec sheet for it?  
Can it take multiple rs232 signals and then udp multicast and unicast them out?  
Or can I use 2 boards to convert the serial to Ethernet and then convert the signals back to serial at the other end ?

Thank you

Paul

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**Author:** ![josh\_elijah](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.botblox.org/josh_elijah/32/568_2.png) [@josh\_elijah](https://forum.botblox.org/u/josh_elijah)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 11:11am UTC](https://forum.botblox.org/t/dronenet-board-specification/186/2 "2024-03-26T11:11:12Z")

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Hi Paul,

At the moment, we have very little documentation on this board, it’s quite early on in development.

> Can it take multiple rs232 signals and then udp multicast and unicast them out?

It doesn’t have an RS232 port, so the answer here is no.

> Or can I use 2 boards to convert the serial to Ethernet and then convert the signals back to serial at the other end ?

In theory yes, but then you’d be better off just using a serial to ethernet converter for that. DroneNet is designed for when you have multiple serial and ethernet devices all in a network.

As this thing develops we’ll release more information, we’re just not in a position to do that until the hardware is verified and the firmware/software is complete. @Andrew_Tridgell is working on the firmware/software integration with Ardupilot, and we’ll likely augment that effort with any additional customer requests.