# Connecting Tritech Micron to BlueROV2 **URL:** \ **Category:** Sonar and Acoustics\ **Created:** [February 24, 2022, 10:23pm UTC](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/connecting-tritech-micron-to-bluerov2/11621 "2022-02-24T22:23:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![EliotBR](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.bluerobotics.com/eliotbr/32/6937_2.png) [@EliotBR](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/u/EliotBR)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 12:16am UTC](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/connecting-tritech-micron-to-bluerov2/11621/2 "2022-02-25T00:16:47Z")
Hi @MathieuPollonais, welcome to the forum 🙂 I’m not familiar with the Tritech Micron, but [from the datasheet](https://www.tritech.co.uk/media/products/Micron%20Sonar%20datasheet%202021.pdf?id=da747609) it seems to support either RS-232 or RS-485 serial communication. You’ll likely need RS-485 configured. If you’ve got a spare pair in your tether you may be able to use RS-485 to send the signal directly to the topside, and then connect to it “as normal” (per the manufacturers specification/usage instructions) from the topside computer. Alternatively you might be able to use a USB-Serial converter (like our [BLUART](https://bluerobotics.com/store/comm-control-power/tether-interface/bluart-r1-rp/)) in the enclosure to connect the sonar to the onboard computer, and then set up a [routing](https://www.ardusub.com/reference/companion/routing.html) connection to the topside. You’d need to check that the software that runs on the topside computer is able to connect with UDP instead, or you may need another routing software on the surface that converts from UDP back to more standard serial. I noticed you put this in the “Blue Robotics Software / Ping Viewer” category, which I’ve moved it out of. While [Ping Viewer](https://docs.bluerobotics.com/ping-viewer/) is open source and could be extended to support additional sonar protocols, or a sonar could add support for our [ping-protocol](https://docs.bluerobotics.com/ping-protocol/) (or have its messages translated into it), those haven’t been done for the Tritech Micron. There’s a bit more discussion on that [here](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/tritech-micron-mk2-with-ping-viewer/10056) 🙂 --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/connecting-tritech-micron-to-bluerov2/11621)._