A couple of Arduino libraries I wrote, AS3935 lightning detector and TCS3471 color/light sensor

Will this code work with the board sold by Embedded Adventures?  Same chip.

http://www.embeddedadventures.com/as3935_lightning_sensor_module_mod-1016.html

Don't think it has all the same outputs..

and can I use an arduino uno instead of the Mega?

thanks

Neither do I have a board sold by EA, nor I have Uno, but I have reports of library working with Uno no problems.

While claims of EA that they have each board "pre-tuned" make me doubt their level of competence, after all, tuning depends on temperature (even with C0G capacitors in tank circuit) and bunch of other conditions and should be redone once those conditions change, besides, library takes care of that and there is nothing tricky there.

Hi Raivis,

I had been wondering about the performance to that lightning detection chip.

I do lightning research in my spare time and I currently use an AM radio for discharge detection.  It would be interesting to see if your solution gives better performance.

Have you verified the sensitivity of the color sensor?  How good is its spectral purity?

Thanks

DAB

All I can say, it does indeed detect lightnings I have no idea how good it is at it though.

Regarding color sensor, I havent seen it in flesh, wrote library solely based on datasheet and then debuged it remotely on a laptop located in US that had arduino and sensor attached.

Hi Raivis,

Our lightning sensors, along with many of our other weather related modules are being used by people around the world to find out more about the world around them.

We have provided open source C software to communicate with the sensor, including deciding on the tuning values, but provide the tuning parameters we found when testing as a service to our customers.

We pride ourselves on making awesome products that people love and we are always open to feedback. Feel free to drop us a line at feedback at embeddedadventures dot com or post up here if you have specific questions. Happy to help.

kind regards

Ian.

Hello Ravis.I use the library of AS3935 but when I compile the following appears

'AS3935' does not name a type to

LightningDetector: 48: error: 'AS3935' does not name a type

LightningDetector.pde: In function 'void setup ()':

LightningDetector: 64: error: 'AS3935' was not declared in this scope

LightningDetector.pde: In function 'void loop ()':

LightningDetector: 102: error: 'AS3935' was not declared in this scope

LightningDetector.pde: In function 'void printAS3935Registers ()':

LightningDetector: 130: error: 'AS3935' was not declared in this scope

can you help me?

Best regards

Pedro

Hello to all,

I am learning something new everyday, but I have no idea how to change the "Noisefloor" in the AS3935 lightning detector. Could someone please give me a kick in the right direction since I am fairly new to all of this?

Ken, W8DZN

If you are using my library, then there is function for that:

int AS3935::setNoiseFloor(int noisefloor)

{

registerWrite(AS3935_NF_LEV,noisefloor);

return getNoiseFloor();

}

Thank you for the reply. I have tried using your suggest before I wrote my question. I am not sure how to use it for sure. As I stated I am learning and very new to this all. I have a couple more ideas to try. Hands-on is the best way for me to learn and to keep trying ideas to find a solution. If you could give me a hint on how to use the code.

Regards,

Ken, W8DZN

Well, there is example included with library. Other than working with specific chip, this library follows generic arduino programming paradigm.