# Wifly post autoconnect problem

**URL:** <https://community.sparkfun.com/t/wifly-post-autoconnect-problem/22104>\
**Category:** Arduino\
**Created:** [September 30, 2011, 4:18pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/wifly-post-autoconnect-problem/22104 "2011-09-30T16:18:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yusif\_Nurizade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a88e57/32.png) [@Yusif\_Nurizade](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/Yusif_Nurizade)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 4:18pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/wifly-post-autoconnect-problem/22104/1 "2011-09-30T16:18:40Z")

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Hello everyone!

I am on a university team for a NASA competition (Lunabotics) and my responsibility is to program an Arduino + Wifly to operate our excavator via a network connection. I got the Wifly shield to connect on its own using the alpha 1+2 sample code, however, I am stuck on what to do from there. The Roving Networks manual and most of the tutorials/discussions online are about how to connect the shield to a network but I have been unable to find any guidelines on how to actually control the Arduino and its pins once this has been accomplished.

I set up a simple LED/resistor combo to see if I could trip it based on sending a letter. I used an if statement conditional on Spiserial.read() == ‘J’ but sending over the letter J in Teraterm hasn’t done anything despite the fact that when I hit enter, the red light on the shield flashes indicating it is receiving data. Everyone I have talked to says something along the lines of it being a matter of reading the serial but I am lacking the actual command names and specific guidelines for controlling the Arduino once a connection has been made.

Can anyone please help me out? I would be grateful for any advice be it actual code suggestions, command names, links to tutorials, anything at all!

Thanks in advance guys,

Yusif Nurizade