Sara Damiano

Posting here is really the best way.  You can attach the output as a text file.

@aufdenkampe – any thoughts?

Postman automatically tacks on more standard http headers than I include in the post from ModularSensors.  I wonder if one of them is making a difference. In PostMan after making a request you can click the “Headers” tab and you’ll see 8 or 9 “temporary” headers that it used in addition to your token header.  M…[Read more]

I think the Hydros 21 takes half a second or so to warm up and take a sample, so it’s probably fine.  It’s turbidity sensors, sondes, and anything Yosemitech that are really the slow-pokes.

If you’re not worried about the small amount of extra data consumed on your cellular plan by those few extra characters, you could also just include the…[Read more]

Huh.  I’m not aware of any particular reason today would be worse than any other day.  There was an update to MonitorMW released on Thursday (1/23), but it mostly dealt with Leaf Pack data and shouldn’t be affecting anything today.

The loop that requests values from sensors only queries sensors that have an associated variable in the variable list.  So if you don’t put the ds3231Temp in your variable list, the program will never actually ask the DS32321 for the temperature.  In that case, the value returned by ds3231Temp->getValue() in your calculation equation will just b…[Read more]

Fix pushed.

@lemmon – most of them were deployed in the field working and stopped for no apparent reason.  I didn’t realize we’d had so many failures until Shannon dumped them on my desk the other day.

@mbarney – we’ve gone back and forth over and over about the transparent-vs-bypass issue.  My experience has generally been that the modem connects more q…[Read more]

@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.

https://github.com/EnviroDIY/YosemitechModbus/issues/17

LOL!

Doh!  I’m sorry, I was confusing you with Dan who was troubleshooting issues with the UBee last week.  They’re even worse than the LTE XBee3’s.

The power isn’t your problem testing in the lab.  That seems a hair low for being connected to USB, but not concerning.  On the last bypass output that you posted from over the weekend, you did con…[Read more]

I just pushed some improvements yesterday to the EnviroDIY fork of TinyGSM that should help with the uBee.

Are you using the same program you posted earlier?  Can you post the output with debugging enabled?  (<span class="crayon-i">sensor</span><span class="crayon-sy">.</span><span class="crayon-e">setDebugStream</span><span class="crayon-sy">(</span><span class="crayon-sy">&Serial);</span> and capture the stream from the serial port monitor)  Are yo…[Read more]

I finally actually did some testing with my own board and managed to get most of the same errors you found in Bypass mode and pushed some corrections to TinyGSM.  It’s all about the issues with synchronous and asynchronous opening.  I figured out how to make it crash every time and (hopefully) how to make that not happen.  And the good news is th…[Read more]

I’m sorry.  No, I don’t think it’s an issue with the battery or the SIM.

When you were running in Transparent, the XBee3 just didn’t register an internet connection.  They just do that sometimes – refuse to acknowledge they are registered on the network.  Sometimes switching from transparent to bypass and back to transparent “magically” fixes th…[Read more]

You are exactly 1 commit behind for TinyGSM.  Try again.  Have you maybe installed TinyGSM to your “global” library registry instead of your local one?  You might need to do a “pio lib -g update” (-g flag for global).  Otherwise you can navigate directly to into the folder and use git to update:  cd .piolibdepsmayflyTinyGSM followed by git pull.

Ah ha!  Can you check which version of SensorModbusMaster you have?  Is it by chance 0.6.7 or lower?  There’s was nasty bug that would cause non-avr boards to crash if the DE/RE pin was set and debugging was turned off.  The bug was only caught and fixed by @neilh about a month ago.  You can get the current version here:  https…[Read more]

@ensign and others (Rachel Johnson, Matt Gisondi, David Bressler, @hicks and a few more) have put a lot of work into that manual!

What?? You haven’t read all the docs??  Actually, I don’t remember how well documented the build flags are.  Writing good documentation is hard.

Are you using transparent or bypass?  You can remove the build flags for whatever you’re not using.  You also don’t need the MQTT flag, it only applies to ThingSpeak (or anything else MQTT).  You also…[Read more]

It would help me to help you if you would be more verbose and detailed in your responses.

You didn’t answer whether you, yourself, had every succeeded in communicating with the sensor in any other way.  I assume that means no.

You’re using example code that includes code for a small screen?  Do you have one?  If not, it might be easier to use th…[Read more]