Ethernet Gateway - Radio Init Fail

[Sparkman]

@stevebus The Ethernet shield does not play nice on the SPI bus, so it's having problems talking to the radio. You need to move the radio to different pins and enable SoftSPI. Search the board for details on that. As a quick test, set up a serial gateway first with the radio on the pins you are currently using and if that works, you know the radio is good.

Cheers
Al

[stevebus]

Thanks for the response...

From the gateway wiring guidance page, I thought the SPI issue was only with the Wiznet based Ethernet shield. Is that not the case?

I'll give the SoftSPI route a try. Thx for the quick response.

[hek]

The ENC module usually works without SOFTSPI.. But it is really tight to get it in on the ATMega328.

[hek]

You might have picked up a none+ variant of the NRF24 module which doesn't support the 250kbs transfer speed.

You might get around this by increasing speed to 1mbps in MyConfig.h and remove the sanity check in MySensors library.

[Sparkman]

@hek said:

The ENC module usually works without SOFTSPI.. But it is really tight to get it in on the ATMega328.

Thanks for the clarification!

Cheers
Al

[stevebus]

thanks for the clarification and help, guys.. You guys rock with the quick responses! (and Mysensors in general is friggin' awesome!)

I moved the wires and enabled SoftSPI and got further than I was. I managed to get to the hallowed "gateway started" message, but got gobbledygook for the st param.. this is what got printed..

0;0;3;0;9;gateway started, id=0, parent=0, distance=0
c=327,t=310,pt=288,l=273,sg=631,st=»:qmjëlVúšÚö�iÿïs0¼�÷ïÜžºKmýÏO»rgædöûå=_ošóÕëÖÌ›§2ŒT†—<÷¿Îºô}~Bõò>,{÷5/

does that look right? or an issue? what does a 'working' gateway look like (without yet having any sensors or connecting to Vera)? Should I be able to ping it? (I can't) Should I be able to telnet to port 5003? (I can't)

[stevebus]

disregard the note above about not being able to ping or telnet to the gateway... that was user error :-)...

the question still remains about the gobbledygook in the st param of the 'gateway started' message. is that legit?

[hek]

"gateway started" is a good message :)

But gobbelgoo is not good.

[stevebus]

Ok... update... I had some debug code in there from when I was trying to find out where the initialization was failing, and I think I introduced a bug... I removed my code and re-ran and got this:

0;0;3;0;9;gateway started, id=0, parent=0, distance=0

that looks good :-)...

thanks for the help guys!

[Sparkman]

@stevebus Glad to hear you got it working!

Cheers
Al