sending structs, need clarification on some things.

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had never used .setRetries it before and saw it in a demo and looked it up on github had not saw the last statement about 15 max.

i did setup the radios like the pingpair example and they failed %100 of the time. it's a packet size issue so i had to change the packets and if i dont have * sizeof(byte) in there it fails. so as it stands only thing that works for the following sketchs is. SetpayloadSize(20 * sizeof(byte)); {anything above 20 works so 21 22 23 24}

TX

#include <SPI.h>
#include "nRF24L01.h"
#include "RF24.h"
#include "printf.h"

RF24 radio(48,49);
void setup(){
  Serial.begin(57600); 
  //**************Start Transiever (NRF24L01) config**************
  printf_begin();
  printf("\n\rRadio Setup\n\r");
  radio.begin();
  radio.setRetries(15,15);
  radio.setDataRate(RF24_2MBPS);
  radio.setCRCLength(RF24_CRC_16);
  radio.setPayloadSize(24 * sizeof(byte));
  radio.setChannel(100);
  radio.setAutoAck(true);
  radio.openReadingPipe(1,0xF0F0F0F0E1LL);
  radio.openWritingPipe(0xF0F0F0F0D2LL);
  radio.stopListening();
  radio.printDetails();
  //**************End Transiever (NRF24L01) config**************
}  
struct StructBuff_t {
  float imuRoll;
  float imuPitch;
  float imuYaw;
  unsigned int AP;
}
StructBuff;
//**************************************************
//************* Start Main Loop section ************
//**************************************************

void loop()
{
float roll = random(-150,150);
float pitch = random(-150,150);
float yaw = random(0,360);
unsigned int ap = random(0,75);

  StuffStructBuff(roll,pitch,yaw,ap);  
   TransStruct();
 }
//**************************************************
//************* END Main Loop section***************
//**************************************************
//-+-+-+>>>> Start Struct Transmit section<<<<<<-+-+-+
void TransStruct(){
  bool ok = radio.write((byte *) &StructBuff, sizeof(StructBuff));
  if (ok) 
    printbuffs();
    //printf("ok...\n\r"); 
  else  
    printf("failed.\n\r");
   delay(10);
}
//-+-+-+>>>> END Struct Transmit section<<<<<<-+-+-+

void printbuffs(){
  Serial.print(StructBuff.imuRoll);
  Serial.print(",");
  Serial.print(StructBuff.imuPitch);
  Serial.print(",");
  Serial.print(StructBuff.imuYaw);
  Serial.print(",");
  Serial.print(StructBuff.AP);
  Serial.println();
 }
void StuffStructBuff(float inRoll, float inPitch, float inYaw, unsigned int inAP){//**Working**
  StructBuff.imuRoll = inRoll;  
  StructBuff.imuPitch = inPitch;  
  StructBuff.imuYaw = inYaw;  
  StructBuff.AP = inAP;  
}

RX

#include <SPI.h>
#include "nRF24L01.h"
#include "RF24.h"
#include "printf.h"
RF24 radio(8,9);
void setup(){
  Serial.begin(57600); 
  //**************Start Transiever (NRF24L01) config**************
  printf_begin();
  printf("\n\rRadio Setup\n\r");
  radio.begin();
  radio.setRetries(15,15);
  radio.setDataRate(RF24_2MBPS);
  radio.setCRCLength(RF24_CRC_16);
  radio.setPayloadSize(24 * sizeof(byte));
  radio.setChannel(100);
  radio.setAutoAck(true);
  radio.openReadingPipe(1,0xF0F0F0F0D2LL);
  radio.openWritingPipe(0xF0F0F0F0E1LL);
  radio.startListening();
  radio.printDetails();
  //**************End Transiever (NRF24L01) config**************
}  
struct StructBuff_t {
  float imuRoll;
  float imuPitch;
  float imuYaw;
  unsigned int AP;
}
StructBuff;
//**************************************************
//************* Start Main Loop section ************
//**************************************************
void loop()
{
    RecStruct();
    }

//**************************************************
//************* END Main Loop section***************
//**************************************************
//-+-+-+>>>> Start Struct Transmit section<<<<<<-+-+-+
void RecStruct(){
  if ( radio.available() )
    {
  bool ok = radio.read((byte *)&StructBuff, sizeof(StructBuff));
  if (ok) 
    printbuffs();
  //    printf("ok...\n\r"); 
  else  
    printf("failed.\n\r");
    }
  delay(10);

}

//-+-+-+>>>> END Struct Transmit section<<<<<<-+-+-+
void printbuffs(){
  Serial.print(StructBuff.imuRoll);
  Serial.print(",");
  Serial.print(StructBuff.imuPitch);
  Serial.print(",");
  Serial.print(StructBuff.imuYaw);
  Serial.print(",");
  Serial.print(StructBuff.AP);
  Serial.println();

}

TX output

-127.00,-41.00,0.00,65
failed.
-23.00,79.00,160.00,37
failed.
failed.
-34.00,85.00,97.00,26
failed.
-71.00,-101.00,99.00,21
failed.
35.00,95.00,308.00,16
failed.
58.00,94.00,28.00,65
failed.
-128.00,16.00,189.00,74
failed.

RX

-127.00,-41.00,0.00,65
-23.00,79.00,160.00,37
-34.00,85.00,97.00,26
-71.00,-101.00,99.00,21
35.00,95.00,308.00,16
58.00,94.00,28.00,65
-128.00,16.00,189.00,74

so size of the struct is 20 it seems. as for the timing man it's slow bout 1.5 updates per sec was hoping for 3 or 4 per sec.