New WiFly is not seen

Wireless & IoT
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I just recieved a WiFly Shield for SPF, I have added 6 and 8 pin headers, plugged it into a Arduino 328 board. I have tried a couple of different sketch but all with the same response. In short, it looks like something is messed up between the RS232 and the WiFly module. The SPI code works since I see the scratch register “H” come back. As an example of what I have tried, I loaded the WiFly terminal sketch, uploaded and opened the serial console. I see the two Serial.println about the bridge working but from there nothing. When I type in $$$ and hit return, nothing. I then tried TeraTerm with this serial console window closed. Restarted, opened Teraterm and similar results. Of note, LED P05 flashes red (not yellow) after I have typed a few things in, does not seem to do much until I type a couple of things like… $$$ or exit…but then on every character it flashes red. it flashes red, $$$ it flashes red on each $. I do not get any “CMD” or ERR back in the terminal window no matter what I type. All of this is as straight out of the box as it can be, the terminal emulation is a VT 100, I have tried local echo to see if my keyboard is messed up. Since the sketch codes behaves in a similar manner I assume teraterm is having the same issue.

Any ideas since this is a pretty basic requirement to move forward on my Wireless smoker – I am stuck.

Stuff tried:

The WiFly library

WiFly demos on SPF (with mods for SSID…)

TeraTerm and WiFly terminal demo

Matt

Boulder, CO

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Well, I kept trying and each time I sent something to the WiFly board the little red LED at P05 would light. Final, I thought I would just try reseting it to factory defaults. exit factory RESET seem to get it “unstuck” and stuff is now flowing both ways.

Interesting that when I typed (I think it was) show all I could tell it was sending back a ton of stuff just not getting picked up.

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Check my post:

viewtopic.php?f=13&t=22580

Looks like at some point sparkfun stuffed a different xtal on these boards. You need to change the SPI-UART baud rate divisor from 0x50 to 0x60.

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I have the modul wilfy rn 131 g breakout but when I connect to my pc on port COM1 with DB-9 it’s write on tera term a lot of symbols ans I can’t use the keybord for enter “$$$” who can help me for configurate tis module ???

Tanks