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In addition to what Sara said (she’s the best!) about the UUIDs for the station when I’m doing that many stations at once I easily also miss an occasional apn = “hologram”.

If the code all checks out, I second the experience that it’s strange how sometimes it takes way longer for one or two modems to connect, even when things are from the same…[Read more]

If it’s a Windows device each Mayfly will be assigned a different COM port number. Maybe you knew this but that’s the best I have with what you are saying. It’s promising that they connect.

(I mean, there’s also the is the Mayfly turned on step…)

Are you working through a tutorial to learn how to do this? Here’s a link to some tutorials. https://www.envirodiy.org/mayfly/software/

If you are just getting started with Arduino, I recommend starting in a generalized Arduino tutorial (not monitoring focused): https://learn.adafruit.com/series/ladyadas-learn-arduino. Here are directions through…[Read more]

Try uploading a basic blink sketch using the Arduino IDE. I’m not sure from your description if the board even could be fried from what you did, but going back to something really basic would test this.

Brian, when they did this color change did they give you a pinout? (I love when they do this…)

Perfect. Go with a 4 pin. The 3.5 mm jack only has 4 pins/connections over the length of the jack. Here’s a photo that might help. You can find a lot about how these are mapped for audio (left, right, mic, ground) and they are mapped differently for iPhone vs other manufacturers.  https://cdn.sparkfun.com//assets/parts/7/5/4/6/11570-04.jpg

Since that has 3 ground lines, wouldn’t a 4-pin work?

This might also be a good resource.

https://github.com/EnviroDIY/EnviroDIY_Mayfly_Logger

Hi Matt,

SDA is a data line. SCL is a clock line. Both are for the Wire library, which is an I2C protocol. These things you could find with a google search of “SCL arduino”. None of these labels are specific to the Mayfly, but they are Arduino basics.

AA is auxiliary analog, found that in the Mayfly Data Logger Features (I’ve personally never…[Read more]

P.S. I took a random pin label and google searched it. My search was “A1 arduino” and it turned up plain language content in the Arduino Foundations class that would lead you to know that this is an analog input pin. That class could be another good starting point, but we picked the Adafruit tutorials because they more quickly lead us through the…[Read more]

Hi Matt,

Glad to see you are getting started with Ardino-framework monitoring. The LearnEnviroDIY link walks you through tutorials starting with the most basic ones offered by Adafruit and other sources online. Then it targets what users will need for monitoring, where the crux is often learning how to manage libraries and how to use the Modular…[Read more]

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

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.

Something to keep in mind is that our mobile phones have multiple radios and switch (mostly) seamlessly between different signals (3G, 4G, etc) but our XBee radios will only communicate on their designated protocol(s). Looks like the XBee 3 is LTE-M and NB-IoT and I don’t know anything about the latter.

This means that what we see on our mobiles…[Read more]

What’s your enclosure? Is there a chance it’s blocking signal? There are probably apps for checking cell signal strength and direction.

The Maximus just connect straight to our Bee radios and sits inside a plastic enclosure (Pelican and Polycase).

We’ve had great improvement with the Maximus FXUB66.

https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/taoglas-limited/FXUB66.07.0150C/931-1202-ND/3724559

@srgdamiano, does this mean that
https://github.com/vshymanskyy/StreamDebugger.git
is no longer needed in the lib_deps?
(In other words, is Stream Debugger now in Modular Sensors?)

Are your UUIDs all correct? If you are not sending a parameter, such as modem status, it still needs to have a full string in the “shape” of a UUID.

…first guess without more information…

For each supported sensor in the Modular Library there’s an extensive wiki. I haven’t used that sensor, but the OBS3+ wiki (https://github.com/EnviroDIY/ModularSensors/wiki/Campbell-OBS3) says that it’s an analog communication and here are the wire color details:
“The power supply is connected to the red wire, low range output comes from the blue…[Read more]