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neilh20 replied to the topic MayFly Kit/Bee Adapter availability in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 4 years, 4 months ago
I could be needing about 6 Mayfly’s + 1 LTE Adapter Board – where is the best way of placing an order, many thanks Neil
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neilh20 replied to the topic Add Sensor button not working on MonitorMyWatershed in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 4 years, 4 months ago
I had some of the same ~ then for new sensors on a specific site, I found by changing the name and removing the ‘-‘ in the name, the new sensor + started working for me.
Last week I added a new site, had a few problems, changed revisited the site/name slightly, and the I was able to add the…[Read more]
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neilh20 replied to the topic Battery Measurement accuracy in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 4 years, 4 months ago
Here is some new data. I had the FTDI cable connected, and seems like it was influencing things somehow. I cut the RX (always high ~ 3.5V) and that changed the way Q1 is turned on. Still not sure why. I removed the FTDI altogether and repeated the readings.
The Mayfly will now continue oprtsting to V_batt reaches 3.00V, resets when I drop to…[Read more]
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neilh20 replied to the topic Battery Measurement accuracy in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 4 years, 4 months ago
So just checking, the Vbat voltage range. I’ve an application that doesn’t have a solar panel. I’m trying to figure out 1) can a LiSOCl2 3.6V 19Ahr be used 2) 3*D Mn 18Ahr 3) generically characterize the LiPo measured Voltage,…[Read more]
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neilh20 started the topic Battery Measurement accuracy in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 4 years, 4 months ago
@shicks, I’m just wondering if you have the range of measurement accuracy for measuring batteryV, when running off the battery.
I’m using Mayfly 0.5b, but getting some strange results with Q1/FDN340P not turning on, just the FDN340 diode conducting and U2/SPX3819 actually 3.0V.
thanks
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neilh20 replied to the topic Geographically Scaling Modular Sensors in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 4 years, 4 months ago
I’m added a new capability for the Mayfly to program its internal EEPROM with geographical specific pieces of information.
When a site is visited, this will allow the retrieved uSD card to be replaced with a blank uSD card.
https://github.com/neilh10/ModularSensors/wiki/Feature-notesFor multiples sites that don’t have modems, and the readings…[Read more]
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neilh20 replied to the topic Inexpensive DIY conductivity sensor in the forum Environmental Sensors 4 years, 5 months ago
@movingplaid for the basic EC sensor above, and 10bit ADC and running at 2minutes sampling – which is way too fast for a simple DC switched EC sensor got a pretty good result. Graph below.
Next stage is to run it overnight, and for simplicity will graph it on MMW
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neilh20 replied to the topic Inexpensive DIY conductivity sensor in the forum Environmental Sensors 4 years, 5 months ago
Hi Robert, be happy to, and I’ve just finishing up a ModularSensors class.
just thought I had posted here, and it hasn’t shown up, so trying again – here are the core…[Read more]
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neilh20 replied to the topic Geographically Scaling Modular Sensors in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 4 years, 5 months ago
Hi Jim. Thanks for the description.
What the ‘ini’ reader does is read a file on the Mayfly microSD card called ms_cfg.ini – in that file is all the configuration information that is specific to a particular node “station” as when the MMW sensor UUIDs are created.
What this does is allow your .ino file to be compiled once to a .HEX, with no…[Read more]
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neilh20 wrote a new post 4 years, 5 months ago
Modular Sensors library of sensors interfaces is fantastic. Sara’s classes form a backbone of data flowing from the sensors to the cloud(s), all running on the low cost, solar powered Mayfly. Thanks Shannon and S […]
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neilh20 started the topic Geographically Scaling Modular Sensors in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 4 years, 5 months ago
Just wondering how other people are deploying multiple Mayflys with the same Modular Sensors and interfaces. I’ve written a blog on how I’m planning on it, so this is a space for responses (I think that is the way it works for the forums).
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neilh20 replied to the topic Response code 504 from data.envirodiy.org in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 4 years, 6 months ago
Hi Anthony ~ thanks for the headsup. For today my desk proto system running at 15minutes intervals/WiFi I haven’t seen any timeouts, all 201’s in the last 5hrs
Matt, sorry to hear the reconstruction issues. Welcome to software development. I’ve got lots of silver hairs from it.
The process of proving or verifying software functionality,…[Read more]
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neilh20 replied to the topic Response code 504 from data.envirodiy.org in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 4 years, 6 months ago
Hi Matt
You’re doing some good characterization work. Thankyou for sharing it.
A basic issue to keep in mind is that all communications can be unreliable as there is complex telecoms infrastructure.An arbitrary wireless placement’s reliability is difficult to quantify ~ distance to cell head, direction of wind, fog/rain etc. A wireless network…[Read more]
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neilh20 replied to the topic Response code 504 from data.envirodiy.org in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 4 years, 6 months ago
I’m seeing similar. Out of 15posts at two miuntes apart. the first 6 where 201, and then the rest mixed 504 and 201.
The site is https://monitormywatershed.org/sites/TU-RC-Test03a/
The post structure looks good:Sending data to [ 0 ] data.envirodiy.org
POST /api/data-stream/ HTTP/1.1
Host: data.envirodiy.org
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neilh20 replied to the topic Inexpensive DIY conductivity sensor in the forum Environmental Sensors 4 years, 7 months ago
Hi Evan, I was wondering how your experiments are going.
I was thinking of constructing a ModularSensors class along what you had been talking about.
So this follows the
https://hackaday.io/project/7008-fly-wars-a-hackers-solution-to-world-hunger/log/24646-three-dollar-ec-ppm-meter-arduino
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neilh20 replied to the topic Trouble initializing XBee3 LTE-M in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 4 years, 8 months ago
Yes that should work. On processor reset, A5 will need to be setoutput to out and low.
Then on setting A6 high AND there is enough power in the LiIon battery the Xbee Radio should come on.
It should be noted its a good idea to monitor the LiIon battery, as it should be sized for the power usage (I like 2Ahr or 4Ahr battery).
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neilh20 replied to the topic Response code 504 from data.envirodiy.org in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 4 years, 8 months ago
I’m seeing it as well. It starts of as 201, and then after 10~2 POST starts printing 504. It has been happening from late last week – but is being recorded on MMW. I wasn’t monitoring anything early last week,
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neilh20 replied to the topic Inexpensive DIY conductivity sensor in the forum Environmental Sensors 4 years, 9 months ago
Its a good discussion, and I’m interested in the context of the study of intermittent streams.
There are a lot of examples of detecting “water leaks”, that is the physical situation of going from no water, to “tap water” – a relatively low TDS water.
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neilh20 replied to the topic Inexpensive DIY conductivity sensor in the forum Environmental Sensors 4 years, 9 months ago
The mayfly can generate a square wave which can then be filtered/rounded to a sinish wave. It would still need to be amplified with a low current op-amp
For TDS trials I personally would start with something like this, though might need more research – it has methods of calibration. The qu is just what sort of value does the results…[Read more]
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neilh20 replied to the topic Inexpensive DIY conductivity sensor in the forum Environmental Sensors 4 years, 9 months ago
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