Is there anyway to tell that the nRF2401 is indeed “working?” I mean can you that it is up and running and configured without receiving a valid packet? Most transceivers out there you can “talk” to it in some way and it’ll “talk” back.
you can’t talk to it.
Pin DR1 will tell you when there is data ready at the receiver.
There’s some sample code somewhere on the forum for a PIC16F88 configuration with both uMIRF’s (using NRF2401) connected to the same chip.
Easiest way is to turn off CRC and adress checking, then, if it alive, it will spew random packets plucked out of the ether. Even with 8 bit CRC, you will still a few spurious packets.
TTFN
SamL