I have a USB newbie question for the Forum. I have never worked with USB from the hardware end. I have paged through the Forum and some of the questions were similar to mine but I would like to clarify before I invest a lot of time in challenging the learning curve. I am not an EE and this is more personal challenge/hobby thing so apologies to the Forum if it is out of scope.
For many years I have designed and built PIC-based wired remote controllers for radio receivers capable of computer control (Icom, Uniden, etc.). These ranged from minimal control (volume, channel change, etc.) to remote display and full feature control. The reason, of course, was to eliminate the need for the computer in portable or mobile operations. These were very straightforward and communication through the serial port. I now would like to control a USB only receiver from a PIC as I have done previously with serial. There are several PICS that have USB capability and my development suite (Proton Basic) offers several USB commands. Is it possible to accomplish communication between the target radio and a PIC acting as host? There is nothing exotic about the commands or data that need to be sent, generally two bytes and a CR for commands and an ASCII string of data for the response.
I have no problem with studying and learning what I need. Right now, I'm just looking to see if this is possible before I dive in only to find the water too deep.
Thanks and regards,
Steve K