Messages posted by: Papa

Rick & all,
I updated my thread with DIY Home Automation, <Success> Wireless Programming>Anarduino Miniwireless (http://homeautomation.proboards.com/thread/164/suc...ramming-anarduino-miniwireless).
I used, rechecked, & tweaked the documentation & believe it to be accurate.

The Jun 7, 2016 at 7:32pm post there offers computourist_node_v2.2Mf2_choices_pub sketch which can be customized to create a wirelessly programmable node (using a miniwireless) in a computourist type network.
That Mf2 version corrects a small, but serious flaw in the previous version.

With the previous version, a node would wirelessly receive a sketch, transfer it into sketch memory, & restart the new sketch.
However, the node sketch would NOT restart if the node lost power then regained it.

Again, the new MF2 version should correct that flaw.

PS Mr Light's version of DualOptiboot bootloader is working well for me on the miniwireless. At 1024 bytes, it's only 512 bytes bigger than the Optiboot bootloader often found on Arduino compatibles AND it provides the ability to program a miniwireless wirelessly.

Rick & all,
I updated my thread with DIY Home Automation, <Success> Wireless Programming>Anarduino Miniwireless (http://homeautomation.proboards.com/thread/164/success-wireless-programming-anarduino-miniwireless).
I used, rechecked, & tweaked the documentation & believe it to be accurate.

The Jun 7, 2016 at 7:32pm post there offers computourist_node_v2.2Mf2_choices_pub sketch which can be customized to create a wirelessly programmable node (using a miniwireless) in a computourist type network.
That Mf2 version corrects a small, but serious flaw in the previous version.

With the previous version, a node would wirelessly receive a sketch, transfer it into sketch memory, & restart the new sketch.
However, the node sketch would NOT restart if the node lost power then regained it.

Again, the new MF2 version should correct that flaw.

PS Mr Light's version of DualOptiboot bootloader is working well for me on the miniwireless. At 1024 bytes, it's only 512 bytes bigger than the Optiboot bootloader often found on Arduino compatibles AND it provides the ability to program a miniwireless wirelessly.

Rick & all,
I updated my thread with DIY Home Automation, <Success> Wireless Programming>Anarduino Miniwireless (http://homeautomation.proboards.com/thread/164/success-wireless-programming-anarduino-miniwireless).
I used, rechecked, & tweaked the documentation & believe it to be accurate.

The Jun 7, 2016 at 7:32pm post there offers computourist_node_v2.2Mf2_choices_pub sketch which can be customized to create a wirelessly programmable node (using a miniwireless) in a computourist type network.
That Mf2 version corrects a small, but serious flaw in the previous version.

With the previous version, a node would wirelessly receive a sketch, transfer it into sketch memory, & restart the new sketch.
However, the node sketch would NOT restart if the node lost power then regained it.

Again, the new MF2 version should correct that flaw.

PS Mr Light's version of DualOptiboot bootloader is working well for me on the miniwireless. At 1024 bytes, it's only 512 bytes bigger than the Optiboot bootloader often found on Arduino compatibles AND it provides the ability to program a miniwireless wirelessly.

At my thread with DIY Home Automation, <Success> Wireless Programming>Anarduino Miniwireless ( http://homeautomation.proboards.com/thread/164/suc...ramming-anarduino-miniwireless ), I did a detailed documentation of installng Mr. Light's version of the bootloader on a miniwireless. Then later in the thread, I document creating a node with the miniwireless that can be reprogrammed wirelessly.

At my thread with DIY Home Automation, <Success> Wireless Programming>Anarduino Miniwireless ( http://homeautomation.proboards.com/thread/164/success-wireless-programming-anarduino-miniwireless ), I did a detailed documentation of installng Mr. Light's version of the bootloader on a miniwireless. Then later in the thread, I document creating a node with the miniwireless that can be reprogrammed wirelessly.

Hi, Jim & Greg, nice to see you in this forum as well.

Greetings, all. This is my story on programming the miniWiress.

I finally had time to work with the miniWireless (RFM69HW radio) that I ordered a while back.

Wouldn't you know the Anarduino web site seemed to be down this weekend until today.

I got Rick's FTDI soldered & working at 3.3 volts. hooked it up to the MiniWireless & to my computer via USB.

Discovered that Arduino IDE Serial Monitor shows a test dump coming from the MiniWireless included sketch program.

Then I had all kind of struggles getting it to program a new sketch. Tried so many suggestions, whatever I could find on other sites.

Finally, one general uploading suggestion that did the trick was work your way thru all the board options in IDE, until one works

I thought I had tried using the Duemilanove board option in Arduino IDE & it did nothing. It does not program, nor even say it's done with an error. I confirmed that today.

What works always so far for me is (what Greg said above) use the IDE board option Arduino Pro or Pro Mini at 5v, 16MHZ. The last part is somewhat counter-intuitive since the MiniWireless runs at 3.3v, but it also runs at 16MHz.

My MiniWireless with RFM69Hx radio came with the program at this link on the Anarduino Home page:

http://www.anarduino.com/docs/mem_rtc_test.ino