Gateway Moteino problem [solved - check IS_RFM69HW setting !!!]

[tva164]

This smells like the standard isRFM69HW problem.  Are you sure you're using a W and not an HW?

This is what it turned out to be.  Problem now fixed, the original sketches are loaded and it works a charm.  I will now go back on some of your earlier advice and clean up the code.

Thanks for your help and while it turned out to be a simple thing in the end it was valuable learning for me.  (I had tested the R4s once after purchasing them over a year ago and they have sat in a drawer ever since - my fault for not checking version when I pulled them out to start this project).

This is what makes this community so great - keep up the fantastic work you're doing.

[handyguy]

I know this is an old thread, but I came across it trying to debug a similar problem I am seeing with my mote gateway communication sketches. Can someone please explain what the "standard isRFM69HW problem" is?

[HeneryH]

There are two flavors of transceivers for each freq: standard and high power.

You need to tell the code which version of chips you have.   I assume that what is meant by that statement is a mismatch between code setting and hw.


https://lowpowerlab.com/guide/moteino/transceivers/

[handyguy]

Got it, thanks!