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Atlas Scientific EZO sensors

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    • 2016-06-12 at 9:52 PM #1559
      Jim Moore
      Participant

        I am trying to interface the subject conductivity sensor to the Mayfly. For starters I can’t find any info on switching the power to the grove connectors. The EZO sensors have a serial output that I want to use to log data to a file.

        Any code examples for powering the grove connectors and a serial interface would be helpful.

      • 2016-06-13 at 10:05 AM #1562
        Shannon Hicks
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          Try this DHT sensor example. It shows you how to power the switchable Grove connectors, and you can just replace the DHT stuff with some SoftwareSerial code to use either the D6-7 or D10-11 pins for the serial comms.

          Or you could use the D4-5 connector, the default jumper sets it to 3.3v constant. The D6-7 and D10-11 sockets are always switchable, either 3.3v or 5. Only experienced users should use the 5v option, since they will need to insure that the sensor or other peripheral device is either one-way or has level converters so that the higher voltage required by the remote device won’t get fed back to one of the Mayfly digital pins.

        • 2016-06-16 at 10:55 PM #1567
          Jim Moore
          Participant

            Thanks Steve.

            That works but I noticed the 5V pins were at 3.27 Volts and the 3.3V pins were at 3.32 Volts. Is there another pin to turn on the 5V boost ckt?

          • 2016-06-21 at 6:02 PM #1578
            Jim Moore
            Participant

              I have test code from atlas scientific that works.

              What changes do I need to use the mayfly board other than changing the board type in the IDE?

            • 2016-06-22 at 3:21 PM #1581
              Shannon Hicks
              Moderator

                The Atlas Scientific sensors work fine with 3.3v VCC, so just connect the 3.3v pin on the Mayfly header (either the D22 switched or the constant 3.3v VCC pin) to the Atlas board along with a ground line. Then choose 2 free digital pins for the comms, like 6 & 7 or 10 & 11, and edit the first few lines of the sample code to change from the pins 2 & 3 that’s shown in the demo.

              • 2016-07-11 at 11:01 PM #1640
                Jim Moore
                Participant

                  I want to time stamp data to a log file from the Atlas sensors. I can’t seem to find any sample code for the Mayfly board’s RTC. I could also use some help on the battery and solar cell connections.

                  Thanks

                • 2016-07-13 at 7:05 PM #1641
                  hank
                  Participant

                    Somewhere on the site, it recommended a Sodaq DS3231 library, which is similar to the Mayfly. Make sure the coin battery is in.

                    I used the example to set the clock (took me ~10 sec to upload): https://github.com/SodaqMoja/Sodaq_DS3231/blob/master/examples/adjust/adjust.pde

                    Then before powering down, I upload the code for data-logging. If you power down and then re-power without uploading new code, it will reset the time for what you had adjusted from the above example.

                    Attached is my data-logging/xbee transparent (AT) communication code. It writes a csv string with time stamps then sensor data- weather station in my case via composite SDI-12 command. The FormatTS function just adds leading zeroes when needed. Sorry it’s in text format, the forum didn’t let me attach a .ino file.

                    There might be other RTC libraries, but i went with the safe route. -h

                    Attachments:
                    1. sdi_weather_sleep_hp01.txt
                  • 2016-07-13 at 10:19 PM #1643
                    Jim Moore
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                      Your code looks close to what I am trying to do with the Atlas sensors. However, it wouldn’t compile due to missing SDI12.h library. Is this just for the SDI-12 protocol which I am not using for the Atlas senors?

                    • 2016-07-15 at 5:17 PM #1645
                      hank
                      Participant

                        yeah, the library is for sdi12 sensors.

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