- Welcome to "Another Geek Moment".
My name is Taylor
and today we are looking at the
Digi XLR Pro Long Range Industrial Radio.
This radio is capable of ranges from one to 100 miles
using Digi's patented Punch2 modulation
for improved interference immunity.
Supports data rates up to 3.2 megabits per second
and can also be configured easily using your computer
with Digi's XCTU software
or a variety of other software interfaces.
To test this out,
I've sent my coworker Nick to get us lunch.
Now Nick isn't very trustworthy with food,
so I put a temperature sensor inside the cooler
to make sure that nothing sketchy happens
with our food on the way back.
Temperature sensor is hooked up
to another one of the Digi XLR Pro
using that as a transmitter.
In this one, we'll be receiving the data
and putting it onto a graph on my laptop.
- You know, I got a couple of minutes here.
I think I might stop to take a bite here really quick.
(car door ajar) Oh man, I left the cooler open again.
Oh, chicken salad sandwich. I love these things.
(upbeat music)
Well, suppose.
What I got here.
Just put that right back there.
- So I've had the data coming in for a little while now,
and it has been good so far
but it looks like it's starting to spike up a little bit.
So, let's give Nick a call and see what's going on.
- (phone rings) Hello?
- [Taylor] Hey Nick. Where are you?
- I'm on the way.
- [Taylor] Well, hurry up man.
Lunch break is almost over and I kinda wanted to eat.
- We got plenty of time.
- [Taylor] You're not eating the food, are you?
- No. - [Taylor] Nick?
- What? - [Taylor] Are you?
- No I'm not. We will be good. We got plenty of time.
I'll see you in a little bit, okay? Bye.
- Well, apparently Nick is on his way.
It's a really nice day out
so I am gonna go wait for him up on the roof patio
and when he comes back,
I'll confront him with the data that we've collected so far.
- Oh man, he's right. I am gonna be late.
Oh man, I'm gonna be late.
This is taking way too long.
Man, I shouldn't of ate this much.
Taylor, I got lunch here.
- Nick, where've you been?
- I got stuck in traffic again.
- We only got five minutes left to eat, what did you bring?
- Just went to the deli really quick.
- This bag is empty.
This one is open.
Sandwich is seriously allover
the inside of the lunch bag.
- That's how I got it. - Really?
- We're just not use that deli anymore.
- Well, I put a temperature sensor inside this bag
and hooked it up to the Digi XLR transmitter,
and it shows that the bag was open for about 20 minutes.
Care to explain that? - It wasn't.
I got cold on the way, I turned up the heat,
but this was closed the whole time.
- But the bag is insulated, so uh?
I've got this graph here.
Shows exactly 20 minutes the bag was open.
- Nope. That's not me. I don't know who that is.
- Numbers can't lie, Nick.
- I don't know.
These chips are actually not that bad.
(laughter)
- [Off Camera] Just staring at each other.
- Man these chips are really hitting the spot.
It sure is beautiful out here.
Hey aren't you Reed's assistant?
- Yes I am.
- What are you doing out here?
- I'm waiting for Reed.
- Huh. You want a chip or something?
- They look good. - Yeah you know what though?
I'm kinda running low so,
and I gotta get back for a lunch meeting.
See you later!