Sara Damiano

And @mbarney, WRT buying new parts.. I’m still not happy with the failure rate of the XBee’s, but I don’t have any suggestions for anything better.

The newest firmware update includes the most recent u-blox update.  [L0.0.00.00.05.08 App version 02.04, released 20May19]  It requires using USB direct mode, but if you have the XBee3 TH dev board, it’s painless.  I recommend updating.

There have been big warnings all over the place for the last several versions saying not to use bypass mo…[Read more]

One of the things I don’t get is that all of the modules I’m working with are ones that had previously connected fine without the carrier profile set.  Why did they stop?

Grumble, grumble.. I just feel really, really dumb.

In the mean time, while I was stupidly missing the one setting I needed for the XBee3’s, I completely re-wrote TinyGSM to…[Read more]

I opened the stack of XBee3’s that wouldn’t connect and, low and behold, setting CP1 got almost all of them to connect.  I feel like an idiot.  @ckillen, thank you so much for that catch.  ModularSensors will be changed.  I feel really, really dumb.

Interestingly, despite the face that I’m pretty sure there’s better service with Verizon here tha…[Read more]

I cannot believe I didn’t think about this setting!  I am ashamed of myself.  I will test it out.  😮

I’m pretty certain that the CP command that the XBee3 implements is a pass through to the u-blox UMNOPROF (Mobile Network Operator profile) command where setting 1 is “SIM ICCID select.” The operator profile encompasses both settings like the in…[Read more]

Interesting.  Why did you chose the particle?  Have they worked well for you?  I got a few particle boards to tinker with but I haven’t actually even gotten as far as plugging them in.

@aufdenkampe, I’m sure that the Tagolas did better when it was new.  You can’t really tell in my picture, but all of my bigger antennas are sort-of crumpled from being dragged back and forth in my backpack and getting shuffled around on my desk.

Most cellular antennas are very wide band or ultra wide band – they cover a lot of frequencies.   An…[Read more]

@ckillen – yes, that is correct.

You know, though, I’ve never actually done it.  Time to walk down the hall to borrow Shannon’s soldering iron..

All of the network selection/registration is done by the u-blox firmware.  The Mayfly’s mcu tells the Digi mcu to tell the u-blox mcu to automatically select the network.  ModularSensors doesn’t even both to ask which network gets selected.  It could ask, but I never cared enough to implement it.

ModularSensors is also requesting automatic se…[Read more]

I’m sorry!  It looks like it somehow missed the dependencies in the install.  Try running the command pio lib install EnviroDIY_ModularSensors

Hm.  Did you restart VSCode after changing the path?

The git problem is probably another “path” issue.  Did you add git to your “path” when you installed it?  I don’t remember if the installer gives you the option.

Try checking your path and adding the directory where git installed to it.  The git executable (git.exe) is probable installed in “C:Program FilesGitbin”  Here are some instructions for…[Read more]

The DRWI_CitSci.ino, once corrected, is what will go in the src/main.cpp location correct?

Correct.  🙂

The platformio.ini you need is here:  https://github.com/EnviroDIY/ModularSensors/tree/master/examples/DRWI_CitSci

I’ve had problems with the python path before, not just with platformio, but with other programs as well.  I’ve had to un…[Read more]

If you are still getting library compiler errors after fixing your sketch, I would strongly prefer to guide you through using PlatformIO. It really is easier, even though it feels much more “programmer” then the more “hobbiest” Arduino IDE.

Very , very briefly:

1. Open the “PlatformIO home”, and create a new project
2. After your project is…

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It looks like when you created your sketch, instead of starting with a completely empty file you pasted your code into the middle of the Arduino IDE’s placeholder code.  So there are chunks of that at the beginning and end which you need to remove.

From the beginning, delete this :

void setup() { // put your setup code here, to run once: }…[Read more]

That’s a lot of compiler errors!

Could you post your program (“sketch_jan07a.ino”)?  I’m guessing based on the errors that there might be a stray quotation mark or a missing semicolon somewhere that’s throwing the whole thing off.

It looks like you have also some of the libraries installed multiple times and I’m guessing some might not be…[Read more]

You shouldn’t really need the development board.  If you’re going to use a bunch of the XBee’s I’d say it’s a $70 well spent, but you shouldn’t *need* it.

Nothing looks wrong in your program.  I’m guessing you’re just not connecting to the internet.  What build flags are you running with?  Can you set all of these and post the log from the ser…[Read more]

We haven’t figured out why we’ve had such a high failure rate with the LTE-M XBee3’s.  It’s pretty discouraging.

I know there was an upload issue with the outputs you tried to post.  (I think our wonderful webmaster is working to allow ino files to be posted.)  But from what you did post, if TinyGSM was able to tell you that the modem was a “u…[Read more]

No active bootloader is… bad.  Are you trying to talk to the XBee3 by way of the Mayfly or do you have a separate adapter board (like the Digi development board or a UartSBee or something similar)?  It’s not impossible to use the Mayfly as a carrier board to connect your XBee3 to XCTU, but it won’t work that way “out of the box.”  The LTE ad…[Read more]

I’m sorry I haven’t been responding.

Right now the ModularSensors library doesn’t directly support LoRa or any other “radio” type communications – it’s designed around a board which has its own internet connection.  You could make it work with an ethernet/radio bridge, but it would take some more work.  So far we haven’t had enough sites where t…[Read more]