💬 Sensebender Gateway

[Fabien]

Thank you @scalz !
You must have a very well calibrated printer to print it correctly. First try fails (oozing due to overtemp)
Other side tomorrow !

[MLs]

@Disca

Where did you find the drivers for sensebender GW for Windows 7?

//Mattias

[tbowmo]

@MLs

Check the product page on mysensors.org

https://www.mysensors.org/hardware/sensebender-gateway

[tbowmo]

@Fabien

D5 is used by arduino to signal USB serial rx/TX activity.

Can you post the log lines from dmesg, from when you insert the usb cable, to after you have pressed the reset button?

[MLs]

@tbowmo

I tried to update the drivers in Device Manager / sense bender GW but it failed to install the computer said.

Therefore, I asked one who wrote that he was using Windows 7

//Mattias

[scalz]

@MLs
I'm also still using win7 x64 for my dev and that worked for me.

Auto install through the Device Manager does not work, nor right-clicking and installing the .inf through Explorer.

You have to force the install and select the location of the .inf in Device Manager. Then it will ask you if you agree about the driver supplier. Of course you're! And you should be able to see it in Device Manager.

[Dany]

There are example program for W5100? The original GatewayW5100 program uses SOFTSPI, different NRF CE/CSN pins? Will work with this hardware properly?

[MLs]

@scalz

Heh've tried both in the device manager and manually. Device Manager, I get an error message.

And manually, nothing happens.

//Mattias

[scalz]

@MLs
yep that's what i explained.
you need to force it in Device Manager. How you're doing in Device manager actually is rather auto, imho ;)
You can try in Device manager to right click on the bad detected device, here Sensebender Gw, and in properties, update driver. At a moment, it should prompt an "Open file" Dialog box (you need to choose the right option in the dialog) and then select your .inf file. And it will ask if you're ok to install a driver from a third party.

[tbowmo]

@Dany

The standard GatewayW5100 example sketch will work on the sensebender gateway. There are conditional compile statements in that sketch, that disables softspi when compiling to the gateway target, and use a hardware SPI instead.

Remember to choose the correct target in your Arduino IDE

[scalz]

@MLs
Okay, simpler, forget what i told you, and follow my steps below. I've unstalled mine to show you ;)
Then if it can be useful for others. Nothing fancy here, it can be used for lot of others drivers.

Step 1: plugin the GW, as you can see it's not detected, and no additional com port.

Step 2: right clic, and update driver

Step 3: click on the 2nd option for searching a driver on your machine

Step 4: Again 2nd option here (you want to search for a driver on your computer)

Step 5: This is a Virtual Serial Com port needed for the GW. So choose COM/LPT for the driver type

Step 6: Now it is asking where the driver (.inf) is stored

Step 7: You can now see that Windows knows what this is about. And tells you this driver is not "signed". No problem we know @tbowmo has done a great job. So, Next!

Step 8: Windows here warns again, saying he doesn't know this driver, so it may not work well. No way, it will work well ;) Click "Yes" to install it.

Step 9: Looks good

Step 10: Tada! Here you can see now the GW is well detected and setup on COM port 24

I can't do better!
I think you'll get it :)

[MLs]

@scalz

Thanks for a super instruction but it is the file itself that the computer says from. It says that the folder contains the no driver

And the driver in the folder I chose I downloaded here

https://github.com/mysensors/ArduinoHwSAMD/blob/master/driver/mysensors-samd.inf

// Mattias

[MLs]

@MLs

When I downloaded the drivers so I make the following step.
Right-click at the file and save target as.

//Mattias

[hek]

On the raw file?

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mysensors/ArduinoHwSAMD/master/driver/mysensors-samd.inf

[MLs]

@hek

https://github.com/mysensors/ArduinoHwSAMD/tree/master/driver

I click on the link below the folder drivers

//Mattias

[hek]

No, that will download a github html page.

Use the link I posted (and save as). It will be the raw content.

[MLs]

@hek

I'll try it tomorrow is not so strange that it did not work for me then.

//Mattias

[MLs]

@hek

Now, I also got the computer to recognize the card. Thanks for all help.

The problem was that even when I used save as, the computer renaming the file as a .txt file "mysensors-samd.inf.txt" and not a "mysensors-samd.inf"

Again, thanks for all the help.

//Mattias

[meddie]

Hi together,

i have some questions to you! I bought a sensebender gateway and a w5100 Ethernet Modul, but i cant get it to work. When i upload the Gateway5100 Sketch and put my yip address in it, then the GW is booting up i get some Data on the serial port but i cant ping the configured ip address. Then i tried to config via DHCP and see that the GW dont get an IP Address.
And when i connect the NRF24 Modul then it seems that the GW is not bootin up anymore because i dont get any data on serial port.
i need your help. Thanks a lot in advance

[tbowmo]

@meddie

Could you please post the logs that you get on the serial port, when the W5100 is attached?

Do you get anything on the serial port if you configure the sensebender to be a serial gateway, and only add a NRF24 module to it?