Anybody using Moteino w/ RFM69 + CC3000?

[dwenrhod]

I'm considering using a Moteino(mega) with rfm69hw along with a cc3000 breakout from adafruit.  Does anybody have any experience with this combination?

I'm looking to have a mega gateway that has wifi w/o needing a raspberry pi.  The price for cc3000 breakout is going to be about the same as rpi w/ wifi, but much smaller and should require much less power.

[TomWS]

I'm considering using a Moteino(mega) with rfm69hw along with a cc3000 breakout from adafruit.  Does anybody have any experience with this combination?

I'm looking to have a mega gateway that has wifi w/o needing a raspberry pi.  The price for cc3000 breakout is going to be about the same as rpi w/ wifi, but much smaller and should require much less power.

I looked into using the CC3000 but did not like the poor reviews.  I had a similar quest in the thread https://lowpowerlab.com/forum/index.php/topic,842.msg5543.html#msg5543 and have successfully used the RN-XV module from Roving Networks (AKA Microchip) with a Mega (using the second serial port as the connection to the RN-XV).  I thought I had posted my gateway implementation, but I guess I haven't.  Maybe I'll get to it next week.

Tom

[xavier]

I'm late to the thread but I had exactly that setup (moteino mega with cc3000 breakout board) - works fine for a while but I had to reboot once in a while since the socket would hang and I would not be able to reconnect to my server. The thing that bugged me to was the fact there was no https support.

building the request for sending to my web server was a little bit of a pain fyi since I had to convert a bunch of floats to strings and build the request manually and send it in chunks but there may be easier ways..

I'm now using a Pi with a usb wifi, setup was much easier than expected btw - I'm now trying to have it communicate with the moteino using serial (and node on the PI).

hth!

[Felix]

Yep sounds like the cc3000 is only great when you watch the commercials. Many people are reporting issues and instability, similar to the ethernet shields etc.
The Pi will just work and you can spend your priceless time doing other things instead.
I use node-serial to talk to the gateway Moteino in my setup.
I will post more about the setup at lowpowerlab.com/gateway as time permits but it's a priority.