Mentions – Activity – Shannon Hicks

Jim Moore replied to the topic Buy 20-25 Mayfly Data Loggers and Proto Shields in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 2 weeks, 5 days ago

<h2 class=”user-nicename”>@shicks</h2>
I just checked Amazon and no Protoshields showing. I guess shipment processing isn’t one day turnaround!
Anthony Aufdenkampe replied to the topic MMW Data Outage? in the forum Monitor My Watershed 2 months, 1 week ago

Thanks Robert, Cal, Jim and others for this thread, and to @shicks for providing all those updates on the Hologram situation.

I would like to add that our team overseeing the Monitor My Watershed portal has also noticed some issues on our end, which are separate from the Hologram issues, and we are working on improving MMW services.

Many of…[Read more]
Robert S replied to the topic MMW Data Outage? in the forum Monitor My Watershed 2 months, 1 week ago

@shicks

Okay. I misunderstood.

I thought you were saying that ONLY 2G stations were affected. I did see that the Punches Run station was back up this morning.

Thanks for the clarification.

Robert
Robert S replied to the topic MMW Data Outage? in the forum Monitor My Watershed 2 months, 1 week ago

@heather

My bad for starting this post in the wrong category. I should have paid more attention!

@shicks

Forgive my ignorance about the technical details of cellular service but …
As for “any stations currently offline right now are likely using 2G hardware…”, SL168 (Punches Run was upgraded to 4G in 2019 but was still down. If the logger…[Read more]
Jim Moore replied to the topic MMW Data Outage? in the forum Monitor My Watershed 2 months, 1 week ago

I reposted this here from my post this morning on “infrastructure and equipment” forum:

“I noticed that what appears to be a general shutdown of the 2G network in the N. Chester county area which occurred Sunday, 7/12, at 13:45 EDT. I have 8 stations in the Great Marsh Institutes’s network. Three of these woke up this morning but the othe…[Read more]
Jim Moore started the topic Status of 2G network? in the forum Infrastructure and Equipment 2 months, 1 week ago

I noticed that what appears to be a general shutdown of the 2G network in the N. Chester county area which occurred Sunday, 7/12, at 13:45 EDT. I have 8 stations in the Great Marsh Institutes’s network. Three of these woke up this morning but the others are still mute.

According to Hologram it looks like 2G is on borrowed time

Does anyone h…[Read more]
Jim Moore replied to the topic Buy 20-25 Mayfly Data Loggers and Proto Shields in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 2 months, 1 week ago

@shicks

Amazon says the protoshield is unavailable. Are there any plans to restock? I need 2-3 protoshields.
- Shannon Hicks replied 2 months, 1 week ago
  
  That’s the one parts we didn’t replenish, so I don’t have a timeline on when we might get more and restock the protoshields.
neilh started the topic Battery Measurement accuracy in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 3 months, 2 weeks ago

@shicks, I’m just wondering if you have the range of measurement accuracy for measuring batteryV, when running off the battery.

I’m using Mayfly 0.5b, but getting some strange results with Q1/FDN340P not turning on, just the FDN340 diode conducting and U2/SPX3819 actually 3.0V.

thanks
Matt Barney replied to the topic Trouble initializing XBee3 LTE-M in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 6 months, 4 weeks ago

This is great news! Thank you @srgdamiano and @ckillen!! I’ve begun ordering parts for 9 additional stations and have been fearing that buying another 9 XBee3 LTE-M modems was going to lead us into a world of frustration with failing modems; hopefully this discovery prevents that.

Regarding XBee firmware: Just a week ago, we deployed a batch of…[Read more]
Sara Damiano replied to the topic Debug flags for modem comms in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 8 months ago

@shicks came over to my office yesterday with a pile of LTE XBee3’s that will no longer connect to the internet. We’re going to buy some alternative types of modems to see if any of them are any better.
Matt Barney replied to the topic Depth measurement using MaxSonar in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 8 months, 1 week ago

Hi Neil, thanks so much – the detail is appreciated! I need to check with our hydrology staff to learn their accuracy requirements. To date, our Mayfly deployments have used the CTD-10 from Meter, but we have a new site where we’re only interested in depth, and the MaxSonar would be a cost savings over the CTD-10 in that case. However, I’m…[Read more]
Randy Metzger posted an update 11 months ago

@shicks Shannon, I am new to the site. I am working on a monitoring project with a local non-profit studying acid mine drainage in the Schuylkill River and tribs. As I do not have any programming experience, I was wondering if there is a kit that is all inclusive with probes to purchase somewhere? Even if I need to program it I could work on…[Read more]
- Shannon Hicks replied 11 months ago
  
  We don’t provide kits or sensors since there are an unlimited number of sensors (in a variety of configurations) that people could use with a Mayfly logger. We only offer the Mayfly board, or the starter kit, and a handful of accessories that work specifically with the Mayfly. Everything else is sources from various stores and online vendors.…[Read more]
Rachana started the topic Analog-to- Digital Converter Port on Mayfly Data Logger in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 12 months ago

Hello @shicks,

I am trying to connect the OBS 3+ of Campbell Scientific(turbidity sensor) to the Mayfly Data Logger using the ‘Auxiliary 16-bit, 4-channel Analog-to-Digital Converter’ port.

Mayfly board has been powered up by connecting it to a PC via USB. It receives 5V external input when connected to ‘LiPo battery connector’ port. But when…[Read more]
dan@wachusett posted an update 1 year, 1 month ago

@shicks

Thanks for your help troubleshooting. Our Mayfly successfully logged data from the Hydros21 over the weekend. Next we will activate the SIM card and upload the sketch to send data to the Data Sharing Portal. Overall the instruction manual was fairly accurate and got me through most of the steps to program the Mayfly very easily. Other…[Read more]
Gera posted an update 1 year, 1 month ago

@shicks Hello Ms. Hicks, I hope everything is well on your behalf,

So at the moment I am trying to store data in a SD card, the SD card I am using is the one that came with the mayfly kit and I was trying to test out the simple file example code that the Envirodiy website has. When I try to compile it, it says that the next three things were not…[Read more]
- Shannon Hicks replied 1 year, 1 month ago
  
  It sounds like you’re having issues with not properly declaring the libraries required for the sketch, or not having the libraries installed on your computer. I use the standard Arduino IDE, but Sara (and others) who use Platform IO will need to help you since I’m not as familiar with the library functionality with that software.
Gera posted an update 1 year, 1 month ago

@shicks Hello Mr. Hicks, I hope everything is well on your behalf,
I wanted to ask you something real quick, what kind of pin number I have to write down in the analogRead() function for the grove sockets to read data coming from there? I would like to know all of them, the 22, 6, AA0, or how I should write it down if it is in a different way. I…[Read more]
- Shannon Hicks replied 1 year, 1 month ago
  
  It’s Ms. Hicks, actually. But the If you want to read an analog signal using one of the two analog Grove sockets on the Mayfly board, they are actually connected to the auxiliary 16-bit A/D converter, which is an ADS1115 chip. You’ll need to use an ADS1115 library, which has the commands you use for reading an analog voltage with any one of the…[Read more]
Anthony Aufdenkampe replied to the topic Mayfly availability – July 2018 in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 1 year, 7 months ago

@dkalo, The Mafly logger is now fully open source hardware!

We have released the Eagle .brd and .sch files for the latest Mayfly v0.5b board, at
https://github.com/EnviroDIY/EnviroDIY_Mayfly_Logger/tree/master/hardware

We also packaged things up nicely, including additional documentation from @shicks, into official releases,…[Read more]
Anthony Aufdenkampe replied to the topic board layout files in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 1 year, 7 months ago

Yes! The Mafly logger is now fully open source hardware!

We also packaged things up nicely, including additional documentation from @shicks, into official releases, https://github.com/EnviroDIY/EnviroDIY_Mayfly_Logger/releases, which we’ve made fully citable: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2572006
neilh replied to the topic AREF in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 1 year, 10 months ago

Hello Shannon/@shicks – thanks for the detail.I missed that it was an internal connection on the mega1284 to the 3.3V
The issue with the 3.3V, is that it is connected to the LiIon through the regulator SPX3819.
The regulator has a dropout that is variable depending on the load, temperature etc – so from the datasheet at load of 500mA it could be…[Read more]
neilh started the topic AREF in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 1 year, 10 months ago

Just wondering if AREF connects to a voltage source.? Looking at the rev0.5B and IC1 pin 29 labeled AREF I can’t find how AREF connects to 3.3V – but its probably I’m missing something. If it was an annotated PDF I could search for AREF.
The code suggests AREF is connected to 3.3V.
If it does connect to 3.3V, can it be disconnected, leaving C19…[Read more]
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