Hi!
Out of box, I connected the WIFLY to the Arduino Uno using the recommended 8-pin headers, but am not seeing evidence of the shield getting power (no lights). Can someone recommend the best way to debug the board, or am I missing something key in the initial setup?
Thanks!
Claudia
Hi
the board should light up (blink) a green and an orange led. It gets its power from the Vin pin on the arduino, but the arduino must be powered with at least 5V (USB connection is enough). Make sure that there is conductivity for the Vin and GND pins between the Arduino and the shield, otherwise it won’t power up.
Can you post a picture of your setup? A picture is worth a thousands words, and a really good picture is worth “War and Peace” 
Cheers
Hii
Check our tutorial on connecting wifly to arduino
there’s a picture there which display where to connect the leds correctly
i just hope that the picture is clear
K!mO’s
sorry forgot to add the link 
Thanks all!
kimokono - I can’t get either pde to compile. In the WebTime example, I get the following errors:
WebTime.cpp:28:18: error: Time.h: No such file or directory
WebTime.cpp:30:23: error: Streaming.h: No such file or directory
WebTime:41: error: ‘time_t’ does not name a type
WebTime:141: error: ‘time_t’ does not name a type
WebTime.cpp: In function ‘boolean Reconnect()’:
and that’s just the beginning - it’s quite a long list. I get similar results for the WiFly_Test example. What am I missing?
Dpontes - it’s pretty basic, but anything that might help I’m happy to do! Picture is attached - I’ve just used the pin connectors to sit it on top of / and connect to the Arduino. Again - what I don’t understand is how I’m getting the proper voltage reading from the 5v and 3.3v but no LEDs lit. I initial tried to solder on to the board before I realized that the pin connectors made more senese, so I thought maybe I’d damaged the board. But - I don’t think I got near any area that would affect the LED and the board is clearly getting power. Any help would be hugely appreciated - thank you!
Claudia
So, am I to understand that, although you placed the pins, you didn’t solder them to the Wifly shield? If so, that might be the cause of the problem, as the pins should be electrically connected to the tiny metal rings on the shield. Otherwise, power might not go through…
If you have your pins soldered, then you can try this connectivity test: get a multimeter and do a conductivity test between pin Vin on the board (you can insert a jumper wire or a resistance in the pin header), and the corresponding metal connection on the bottom of the Arduino board. Like this image (but obviously the resistor should be on the Wifly board):
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-rWRv … 112628.jpg
repeat for the GND pin. NOTE: the Arduino SHOULD NOT be connected to any source of power.
Also, regarding the WebTime example, you are missing the Time library, at least. You can download this library [here, and unzip to the library folder in your Arduino folder…](http://www.arduino.cc/playground/uploads/Code/Time.zip)
ohh im sorry but when you said wifly, i assumed the wifly breakout and not the wifly shield
anyway im not sure my tutorial would help you much as im using a library that was configure to send data to arduino serially and not through SPI
but for the pde compilation problem
you need to download NewSoftSerial, Streaming, PString and Time libraries from http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/Libraries
i hope your LED problem is not some hardware problem in your wifly shield
K!mO’s
