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Author: feiticeir0
Date Created: 27 Jan 2022 12:24 PM
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  • Arduino MKR WAN 1300
  • arduino mkr connector carrier
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[Pool Water Monitoring] #17 - Frustrations, frustrations and some new ways.

feiticeir0
feiticeir0
27 Jan 2022

Hi all ! Hope everyone is well.

This blog post is just to vent some frustrations I'm having .

Data collecting

In the data collecting front, everything (almost) is set up and working. I just need to include the deep sleep functions to save battery and it's ready to go.

PH probe

The PH probe has arrive and is working - sort of. I'm having a bit of trouble calibrating it. One of the calibration processes is to have 2.5v on the output, but I'm can only go to 2.59v. I've tried with a multimeter and the Arduino serial monitor. Powered by an Arduino as well by a bench power supply... No luck...

Still have to dig a bit more .

Data receiving

On the data receiving part, everything is working.

I get all the data send by the MKR 1300 WAN on the data collecting and I'm able to process all the values and I know which is which.

Data displaying

Because I don't display the data when collecting it (no one is there to see it), it's displayed on the data receiving end (per my project design).

To be able to use the Grove parts send with the KIT, I was relying on an Arduino UNO to be able to use the grove base and then all the other components. But, how to send the data values to the Arduino UNO ?

My first attempt was Serial Communication.

I was never able to send data from one to the other. Don't know why. I know the MKR has two serial ports (at least, I can use Serial1, and the PINs are 13 and 14), but even that, I wasn't able to see any data in the serial console.

I was going to try to use the SoftwareSerial library, but, not anymore.

Because I'm not one to give up right away, so,and by happenstance, I came across this:

An Arduino MKR Connector Carrier. This will allow the Arduino MKR 1300 WAN to connect grove modules. Nice. I can ditch the Arduino UNO and keep things even simpler.

Arduino IoT cloud

One of my goals is also to display the values in the Arduino IOT Cloud dashboard - that I know now, using my plan (free) isn't sharable, so I can't share it with you to see, and I've maxed out the variables I can create. Angry

But, I'm having a really really hard time to be able to connect the Arduino MKR 1300 WAN to the Arduino IoT Cloud. Don't know what the problem might be, but this is not the first time I have this problem... The device is recognized and I'm able to upload the sketch to it, but nothing happens... Nothing is displayed on the Serial console (the one from the Arduino IoT Cloud). Still have to see what is happening.

Because of this, I'm already exploring other ways, like the TTN .

Stay tuned for more.

How are you going ? Having a lot of problems ? Smiley

Cheers and stay safe.

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  • feiticeir0
    feiticeir0 2 months ago in reply to christophesky

    I ended up with one like the one from DFRobot, but bough it from Aliexpress.  I have a buffer solution, from a previous project.

    But I was trying to calibrate it, but never got the values needed, from a multimeter . I never actually tried to obtain any value with the probe inserted in the solution.

    That's a awesome solution the milk. :)

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  • christophesky
    christophesky 2 months ago

    What pH probe did you go with in the end? I have one from DFRobot and found it to work quite well. I didnt have any buffer solutions and so found this to be quite a good thread - https://www.aquaticplantcentral.com/threads/household-items-ph-standards.68037/ I went with milk for my 7.4-7.5 solution :)

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  • christophesky
    christophesky 2 months ago in reply to feiticeir0

    I had exactly the same problem, I am too far away from any LoRa gateways run by other folks.

    Outstation <---> Instation <--> UART conn <--> raspberry pi.

    I then read the LoRa output as serial.

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    feiticeir0 3 months ago

    It turns out that to be able to connect a MKR 1300 WAN to the Arduino IoT, it must be using The Things Network - but I'm not near any gateway... The only one on my city is on the other side of the city and I'm behind a mount - not very big, but enough for me not to be able to reach the gateway...

    I tough I had this problem before, but the last time I've connected to the Arduino IoT Cloud was with an Arduino Nano 33 iot... I knew the network settings were a bit off..

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  • beacon_dave
    beacon_dave 3 months ago

    "...But, how to send the data values to the Arduino UNO ?..."

    This button wall project uses I2C to communicate between 21 Nanos and 6 Unos Slight smile

    https://youtu.be/ypBI0wJYfcQ?t=138

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