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neilh20 replied to the topic RS485 Schematic in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 2 years, 9 months ago
@shicks just wondering if the RS485 schematic is likely to be published, and of course if the parts are likely to be available. Many thanks.
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neilh20 replied to the topic Clock Sync for Mayfly v1.0 in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 2 years, 9 months ago
Ok. Got it running with a student I’m working with (over zoom)
python -m serial.tools.list_ports -v
shows the ports and then substitute for “FTDI”
“Silicon Labs”
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neilh20 replied to the topic Clock Sync for Mayfly v1.0 in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 2 years, 9 months ago
@mbarney just wondering did that work for you with the Mayfly1.0 . Do you have any changes you made to the program. Many thanks
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neilh20 replied to the topic Deep Cycle 12v Battery Recommendations in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 2 years, 9 months ago
edit to the above email: Sorry I don’t have any experience with the 12V batteries, or 12V to 5V.
I would note that the Mayfly1.0 charger is different than 0.5b, and I’m seeing that it wants a slightly higher+5V than the Mayfly 0.5b for it to do a 0.5A charge of the LiIon battery. I am using USB charging monitor “USB Meter” to monitor the charge…[Read more]
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neilh20 replied to the topic Deep Cycle 12v Battery Recommendations in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 2 years, 9 months ago
I’m also deeply into power analysis as the way of keeping everything going. I was working with some engineering students and got them to do a spreadsheet, which I modified and added and can be used to build a budget for the power that you think you need, and what the power consumers might be. I then look for the major user of the power, and let…[Read more]
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neilh20 started the topic RS485 Schematic in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 2 years, 9 months ago
HI @shicks, just wondering could you post the schematic/parts on the “RS-485 Half-shield”
https://www.envirodiy.org/product/envirodiy-rs-485-half-shield-pack-of-5/ Says “Product expected to be in stock and ready for purchase in mid-October.”
Do you have any availability on it, and also when there might be a working +12V boost ~ very broadly Q2…[Read more]
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neilh20 replied to the topic Connecting SIM7080 to New Thingspeak in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 2 years, 9 months ago
@zeke-holloman hey congrats,!!! Thanks for the posting and analysis, I could also build from that.
Wow… the power of open source that you can dive in and tweak it, so you can make it work. Go @zeke-holloman !!!
Just an FYI, what I do to facilitate easy maintenance, and easy future merges, I rename my customizations to a “unique name sp…[Read more]
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neilh20 replied to the topic Compiling for Mayfly v0.5 or v1.0 in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 2 years, 9 months ago
Hi Matt
The short answer :), is there is a difference in hardware ports, and that can impact the interface to the modem. I expect to support the Mayfly 0.5b for the foreseeable future for devices in the field, and the Mayfly 1.0x features are in evolution. I appreciate the support and context of SWRC, hardware is available for purchase, s…[Read more]
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neilh20 replied to the topic Connecting SIM7080 to New Thingspeak in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 2 years, 9 months ago
@zeke-holloman I agree with @srgdamiano, Mathworks have gone down the path of making it difficult to test a small number of devices against thingspeak, since it was added to ModularSensors publishers.
A bit of shame since I’ve had some simple devices working reliably against it since 2013.
Also unfortunately, “the real world” is that testing…[Read more]
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neilh20 replied to the topic Stability Testing ~ how to do it? in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 2 years, 9 months ago
In the early part of this year 2021, I did some regression testing using an Insitu LT500/SDI12 with a modbus board and telecom LTE, and I ran into a hard to find issue on the Mayfly 0.5b – the Uart Rx line is unterminated..
When extending features, its not unusual that problems are uncovered in new ways of exercising the software.
As part of a…[Read more]
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neilh20 replied to the topic MMW timeouts in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 2 years, 10 months ago
@aufdenkampe many thanks. Appreciate this is covering timing issues that are a bit hard to flush out.
I suppose I’m the messenger in checking the system to what appears to be the bar from the Mayfly, but its a pretty hard area to checkout – all I can say is that as the messenger I’ve seen the challenges in other systems and was trying to give…[Read more]
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neilh20 started the topic MMW timeouts in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 2 years, 10 months ago
I’m just wondering if anybody is monitoring the responses from POSTing to monitormywatershed.org
and if they are getting a response ‘201’The data for my test systems, is being recorded, but I’m not seeing any 201.
The timeout is 5sec, so now it waits fully connected for 5seconds and then gives up listening.[2021-12-22 09:16:14.343] Connected…[Read more]
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neilh20 replied to the topic Status update on MMW? in the forum Monitor My Watershed 2 years, 10 months ago
I cleared browsing date for “cached images and files” & “browsing history” (a complete clear of everything is quite educational to recover from)
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
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neilh20 replied to the topic Status update on MMW? in the forum Monitor My Watershed 2 years, 10 months ago
Thanks for the update. The system that I had that wasn’t reporting this morning is now reporting – https://monitormywatershed.org/sites/TUCA_PO03/ as of Dec. 10, 2021, 10:30 a.m. (UTC-08:00)
I’m logging in using FireFox for my production sites and Chrome for my test sites.
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neilh20 replied to the topic Status update on MMW? in the forum Monitor My Watershed 2 years, 10 months ago
For my status, there is one site that started uploading, OK – which is good as its about 3hours drive time.
One site that hasn’t updated. Its on private land and requires permission to enter the property, and its usually only done when there is a group of activities on the site. Its about one hour drive away.
Both are on verizon.For my local…[Read more]
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neilh20 replied to the topic Status update on MMW? in the forum Monitor My Watershed 2 years, 10 months ago
I’m seeing the same – and strange data losses been going on since 2021-12-03 20:15 PST,
I’ve entered it as
https://github.com/ODM2/ODM2DataSharingPortal/issues/535I also asked three weeks ago how to do a test for a reliable data server
https://github.com/ODM2/ODM2DataSharingPortal/issues/524and over a year ago, I asked for what could a…[Read more]
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neilh20 replied to the topic Data not appearing in sparklines or on Time Series Analyst in the forum Monitor My Watershed 2 years, 10 months ago
Interesting, thanks for the post. I was wondering I’m not getting data posted from my units.
However the data posted can be read, so seems only the backend has failed.
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neilh20 replied to the topic Data not appearing in sparklines or on Time Series Analyst in the forum Monitor My Watershed 2 years, 10 months ago
Hey wow good to see. I’ve been experimenting on the staging version of this, and so the new TSA is much faster and slightly different, but soooo much better.!!.
What I’ve seen is initially the new graphs draw a years worth of data and auto-range.
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neilh20 replied to the topic USB to UART Mayfly, Serial Ports Not Connecting in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 2 years, 10 months ago
Thanks for the link –
Just helped two people/students connect their windows machines to the Mayfly USB-C CP210x
– both required the installation of the “CP210x Windows Drivers”
from https://www.silabs.com/developers/usb-to-uart-bridge-vcp-drivers then Downloads -
neilh20 replied to the topic Clock Sync for Mayfly v1.0 in the forum Mayfly Data Logger 2 years, 11 months ago
Oh interesting I hadn’t seen the PYsync
In EnviroDIY_DS3231examplesPCsyncPYsync.py
There is a line looking for the port
# Keep only ports with the device communication type
device_ports = [
p for p in ports
if ‘VID_0403+PID_6001’ in p[2]
]From device manager, PORTS , Silicon Labs CP210x USB to UART
In Events
I see
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