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Yes, that works for sure; I had to do so last week just to get a couple of Mayfly loggers built and shipped out to the field. Now I’m revisiting the issue in order to get my dev environment back in order.

In theory, you  could  add  the missing  pieces manually….

Hi Beth,

Thank you for sharing your experiences! I’ve tried those things too, and I’ve definitely had them work for me in the past. I thought I had gotten pretty good at smacking PIO around and getting it to behave, but today is apparently not that day…I’ve repeatedly restarted VSCode, created brand new projects, as well as cleaning out the…[Read more]

There are smarter people at this than me, but I have  run into  two  solutions when  I have the issue you just had.

1. rebuild/compile again.  It’s lame, but it sometimes solves the error.
2. If #1 fails, I manually remove the .pio directory and rebuild the whole thing.

After thinking about this old code yesterday, I was curious about what actually happens if a tip occurs during a long delay period, like the 2-second delay on line 123 and and 2.5-second delay on line 125 (which are delays to give the Xbee 900mhz radio module time to successfully wake up and then finish its routine before sleeping).   I p…[Read more]

Below is the code I wrote several years ago that is still running on all our local tipping buckets.  This was way before all the ModularSensors libraries and MMW portal, so things could be written differently now, but it can give you and idea on how the Mayfly handles the interrupt signal from the tipping bucket.

First you need to enable the…[Read more]

Meter Group sensors like the Teros 12 come with either bare wires or 3.5mm stereo headphone jack plugs.  Have you already purchased your sensors?  If not, you can choose that option when you order.  You can also request a custom cable length if you need longer cables than the default length, which I think is usually 3 meters on their soil se…[Read more]

@shicks, that’s great to hear that you have a bunch of tipping buckets connected directly to the Mayfly. Could you share that code with us? Is it integrated with ModularSensors? It would be very valuable to do that.

I can’t remember all the reasons for developing the TippingBucketRainCounter device application for the Pro Trinket. I do remember…[Read more]

Thank you very much ... I installed the library, took a look at the examples, but I'm a little new to Teros 12 and I can't make the connections on the Arduino ... In the research I did, I saw that you will use the SDI-12. .. I will use several sensors in the project ...

The 10HS soil sensor has a simple analog voltage output that is easy to measure with an Arduino board by doing an analog voltage measurement.  The Teros 12 has a digital output in either TTL or SDI-12 format.  I’d recommend SDI-12, especially if you’re going to have more than one sensor connected to the same board, since then you can assign a d…[Read more]

Is there a benefit to using a Trinket for counting the tips instead of using the Mayfly?  I’ve built a bunch of tipping bucket recorders using only Mayfly boards by just connecting the bucket’s reed switch to the Mayfly pin D10 and using code to look for an interrupt to wake the Mayfly, increment the count, and go back to sleep.  It records and t…[Read more]

@brianjastram, I think my colleagues in Washington DC have experienced a similar problem to yours, and after a bunch of troubleshooting, we figured out that it was due to electromagnetic interference in the analog signal line from the tipping bucket to the counting device. They had used unshielded cable and also had some unshielded connectors on…[Read more]

So I think that I’m out of luck on this sensor, based upon what you just said. I’ll have to abandon this sensor.

thank you for all your help and sorry again for the miscommunication.

<!–more–>Yeah, so 99.99% of what I’ve said on this thread can be completely disregarded. Obviously the sensor and firmware work just fine and there never was any problem with them.  The biggest problem was my understanding of the problem.

If everything is perfect except the 3m cable, then it’s just the 3m length that is the problem. It’s…[Read more]

I apologize for not saying that from the get go. My knowledge with all of this is rather limited, to be honest. I thought you were just trying to talk between the Sensor and the MayFly. The current library that I am using is on GitHub at <https://github.com/NorthernWidget-Skunkworks/Walrus_Library&gt;