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- Tue Jan 19, 2016 5:21 am #39209 Hey all,

I need to ping a webserver as a heart beat, basically "http://server.local/[mac]/[ip]/[voltage reading]"

But I don't actually care if it gets a response or what that is. Ideally I want this call to take up as little time as possible so that it can return to taking in udp data and acting on it without a visible "hiccup". I wondered if anyone had any tips on how best to do this?

Cheers,

Sol

- Wed Jan 20, 2016 6:15 am #39288 I've now switched to using udp packets rather than http calls on both ends to make it simpler