Where to get legit nRF24L01+ modules?

[d00616]

@Nca78 said in Where to get legit nRF24L01+ modules?:

@d00616 said in Where to get legit nRF24L01+ modules?:

Some news. After playing with NRF5 and the NRF24 protocol. The red EBYTE modules are fakes.

You mean you bought those red modules from Ebyte shop and they sent you some with a dot on the chip ?

Yes. I had ordered the module in the form factor like this posted above.

@gohan said in Where to get legit nRF24L01+ modules?:

@d00616 Are you sure about that?

Yes, about the ACK/NoACK handling. With the NRF5, I see raw packages. I'm not sure about the dot vs. rectangle, but my modules with a dot violating the protocol.

[gohan]

how did you setup NRF5 "sniffer" ?
BTW, my red modules are working really great; the link you provided from aliexpress are really genuine?

[Nca78]

@gohan do you have rectangles/squares or dots on yours ?

[gohan]

I don't remember, I'll have to look tonight

[d00616]

@gohan said in Where to get legit nRF24L01+ modules?:

how did you setup NRF5 "sniffer" ?

At the moment, I reimplement the protocol for NRF5 chips to fix an NRF5 hardware issue. I don't have a "sniffer".

BTW, my red modules are working really great; the link you provided from aliexpress are really genuine?

My red modules are good working clones, but they are clones which violating the protocol. Using clones resulting in sending more packages over the air and never receiving an ACK package from original NRF24. So it looks like a duck, but not quacks like a duck over the air.

EDIT: Sorry, Cannot identify clones at the moment.

[NeverDie]

There's no reason to continue using nRF24L01's anyway, except for legacy situations. Their only virtue is cheapness, and the nRF51's offer a good substitute for that.

[d00616]

@NeverDie said in Where to get legit nRF24L01+ modules?:

There's no reason to continue using nRF24L01's anyway, except for legacy situations.

...when https://github.com/mysensors/MySensors/issues/949 is fixed. If not, a node requires an hard reset from time to time.

[Yveaux]

@d00616 said in Where to get legit nRF24L01+ modules?:

they have an rectangle over the N and responding line an original NRF24L01. Maybe this helps to identify originals.

Here we go again... Nordic is a fabless company. Therefore the laser marking on their genuine models can be different with each batch. There is no known way to tell if a module is genuine or not from the outside of the module.

[NeverDie]

@d00616 said in Where to get legit nRF24L01+ modules?:

a node requires an hard reset from time to time.

First I've heard of this. How often is "from time to time"?

[d00616]

@NeverDie said in Where to get legit nRF24L01+ modules?:

@d00616 said in Where to get legit nRF24L01+ modules?:

a node requires an hard reset from time to time.

First I've heard of this. How often is "from time to time"?

<0,1% of packages. I have three versions of the ESB protocol code. With the published version, the module hangs when PAN#102 is triggered. My second version was a try to fix this issue by adding some timer code. With this fix, the NRF5 looses more packages than before. The version I currently working on looks more stable, is easier to debug, supports the fast ramp up mode partially, but it's not complete yet.

[d00616]

Sorry for my NRF24 clone post yesterday. The ACK bit was an issue with the NRF5 platform. I had switched the memory region to handle TX/RX/ACK packages separately. Sometimes the received packages are written in the wrong region. I had seen my testing ACK bit. Now, I have changed my NRF5 code and I can't see no difference between the modules, I have. ACK and timing are exactly at the same level.