RFM69HW AND RF96 on the same arduino?

[Shanteyman]

Hi

I have a working network of sensors using RFM69s and I have a pair of pro minis with RF96 sending LoRaWAN messages to TTN.

I want to link the two systems. They both are working on 868 Mhz.

I have searched the net for solutions but only came up with rfm69-softspi, which fails because I have run out of digital pins on the pro mini.

Can you ever use the two radios (RFM69 and RF96) talking to each other?

Cheers

[Uncle Buzz]

Hi

I have a working network of sensors using RFM69s and I have a pair of pro minis with RF96 sending LoRaWAN messages to TTN.

I want to link the two systems. They both are working on 868 Mhz.

I have searched the net for solutions but only came up with rfm69-softspi, which fails because I have run out of digital pins on the pro mini.

Can you ever use the two radios (RFM69 and RF96) talking to each other?

Cheers

Apart form frequencies which should be slightly different (2 differents channels), you shoudl be able to use hardware SPI for both radio, just use a diffrent CS pin for each one, and also a different IRQ pin, and apply changes in library or in consctructor of your radio object.
the SPI bus is build to have multiple device on same bus, on the moteino you have the radio and the flash with 2 diffrent CS pin, others pins are mutualised.

EDIT : you can use RFM69 and RF96 on same microcontroller to use 2 wireless networks, but RFM69 talking to RF96 is probably not possible, will be confimed by other guys with better knowledge than me.

[LukaQ]

lora to RFM69 is not possible, they don't work the same way