WizFi360-EVB-Pico

Hi ralphjy, have you used this WizFi Pico board yet?

So far I'm not at all impressed - I can't even get the basic WiFi samples to work And WiFi is kind of their whole point
I'm using the Arduino IDE with their library.

I noticed two project submissions so far, but they both use AT commands directly. sigh.

I've posted questions on their board, so I hope they'll get that sorted out soon.

Hi Nico,

I've run into some issues due to the fact that I have some conflicts with the board libraries that I have installed for RP2040 boards (unfortunately I use many different variants).  I have run into these type of issues before. I may have to isolate the different libraries.  Have you used the Arduino IDE previously with other RP2040 boards?

I assume that for the WizFi board that you are just following their instructions and using the earlephilhower board library which covers a lot of the RP2040 variants.  I've had conflicts with that library and the Arducam library that supports the Pico4ML.  And I've been trying some other board and software libraries that may be causing problems that are specific to my setup.

What kind of problems are you having?

I haven't really done anything useful with WiFi because of these other issues.  I have been connected to my WiFi router and obtained an IP address, but have had some issues with some of the WiFi library functions (haven't figured this out yet).  I suspect that there might be some version incompatibility with the WizFi360 library.  

I've kind of gotten derailed because of work being done on my house, but hopefully will be able to get back to it in about a week or so.

Ralph

ah ok. so you might need to remove that line from the samples too... in case it comes up.
This is the line that caused the problems for me, in the samples:
>  IPAddress ip = WiFi.localIP();

And... where is that "facepalm" icon... I was connecting the WizFi board to my GUEST network, which is purposely isolated from seeing the rest of my network. sigh. So hopefully that will solve the last hurdles!

So many hurdles, LOL...

In case you run into this - the next problem was that it doesn't interpret .local names, so I had to use the IP address. That got me connected, and it's sending data that's being received by NodeRed, finally!!

But then it runs out of sockets

This all works 100% on the ESP-based boards, btw. I'm finding the WizFi library has a lot of other little quirks too, like the way the SSID and password are defined are not the same as the standard WiFi libraries (the proper libraries just use string constants).
So I stand by my earlier outburst of this board not being polished enough for general use!

Good grief!  Good luck. Hope you get everything working before I get started .

Hi Nico,

The person that created the WizFi360_arduino_library had posted a project on Hackster using the wizfi360-evb-pico-in-arduino.  I noticed that they had used version 2.2.2 of the RP2040 board library by Earle Philhower - and that works with the localIP function.  Not sure why - I posted an issue on the WizFi360 library on github but haven't gotten a response.  I had been using version 2.4.0 of the board library.  I had tried a few earlier and later versions, but did not go back that far...

Maybe it affects other stuff?  Don't know if you would want to give it a try.  I'm going to see if it will work for what I'm doing.

Ralph

Hi ralphjy, thanks for that extra info! I bet that's the issue (or part of it), that they built it for a previous version and then when that library was updated they didn't update to keep up with it. Good catch! It'd be interesting to try it with the older version.

I got it running well enough to make it functional for what I need, thankfully - NodeRed is getting all of the info from my BME280 sensor (temperature, humidity, and pressure), and from there it was easy to display it on a browser based dashboard. For the "Experimenting with Thermistors" challenge I was able to get good readings from a thermistor with minimal code (testing on Arduino), so I think I should be able to port that over to the WizFi to get my nectar temperature probe, which completes the set for what my project needs.

Hope your project is going well too!

-Nico

Hi ralphjy, thanks for that extra info! I bet that's the issue (or part of it), that they built it for a previous version and then when that library was updated they didn't update to keep up with it. Good catch! It'd be interesting to try it with the older version.

I got it running well enough to make it functional for what I need, thankfully - NodeRed is getting all of the info from my BME280 sensor (temperature, humidity, and pressure), and from there it was easy to display it on a browser based dashboard. For the "Experimenting with Thermistors" challenge I was able to get good readings from a thermistor with minimal code (testing on Arduino), so I think I should be able to port that over to the WizFi to get my nectar temperature probe, which completes the set for what my project needs.

Hope your project is going well too!

-Nico

Hi Nico,

Not sure if you want or need to update your library, but I got a response on github that a branch was created to resolve the localIP() issue, The branch is https://github.com/Wiznet/WizFi360_arduino_library/tree/WizFi360-EVB-Pico.

I am currently traveling, but I should be able to try it out this weekend.  They did not indicate what they fixed.  I guess they will wait for feedback before merging the branch.

I use the earlephilhower RP2040 board library with my Pico W also, so it would be nice not to have to switch versions when using different boards.

Ralph

Thanks Ralph!

I ended up just not using that function, and the rest works well enough so I was able to complete the project. I just need to submit the results, but it feels complete enough  I have some stretch goals that may or may not make it into the final version.

I think ultimately I'll shelve the WizFi360-EVB-Pico until they fully support it in Python. By then maybe some Thingiverse cases will also have been created
The Arduino software support for the Raspberry Pi Picos in general still feels VERY clunky - things like OneWire still don't work, and similar for a few other libraries I tried to use. My project ended up taking a lot of detours

ps, thank you also for opening that bug report.

-Nico

This may be a deprecated solution, but I was having the same issue yesterday. I installed all the latest libraries but with no success. The problem with the WiFi.localIP() (and remoteIP) is with the C:\Users\####\Documents\Arduino\libraries\WizFi360\src\utility\WizFi360Drv.cpp file.

1) Open the file,

2) Navigate to "void WizFi360Drv::getIpAddress(IPAddress& ip)" 

3) Find "ip = _localIp;"

4) Change that line to "ip = IPAddress(_localIp);"

- Do the same in "void WizFi360Drv::getIpAddressAP(IPAddress& ip)" 

- Similarly in void WizFi360Drv::getRemoteIpAddress(IPAddress& ip) but change to "ip = IPAddress(_remoteIp);"