Hi everybody.
For my baseball score board I need to read a string from my homepage as frequent as possible.
The original idea came from: http://www.instructables.com/id/Remote-Controlled-Arduino-Scoreboard-using-LED-Str/
The score board works with a TV remote control, but this is out of IR range for our scoreboard location.
My goal is to update the score on "strike" level. This means that I have to connect to my homepage with a refresh rate of a couple of seconds.
So far I've managed to create an app with MIT app inventor, send data to sql database and get a comma separated string by php script, get this string by GSM shield 2 and transform it into separate integers again.
The standard sketch below work fine after connected. The connecting takes a while, but the data comes quickly after that.
The best way is to keep the connection open I guess.
The loop is needed to be very quickly to receive the characters, this should not be changed I guess for not losing characters.
I guess parts from the setup are supposed to be run only once of course, but probably a part needs to go into the loop.
/*
Web client
This sketch connects to a website through a GSM shield. Specifically,
this example downloads the URL "http://www.arduino.cc/asciilogo.txt" and
prints it to the Serial monitor.
Circuit:
* GSM shield attached to an Arduino
* SIM card with a data plan
created 8 Mar 2012
by Tom Igoe
http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/GSMExamplesWebClient
*/
// libraries
#include <GSM.h>
// PIN Number
#define PINNUMBER ""
// APN data
#define GPRS_APN "GPRS_APN" // replace your GPRS APN
#define GPRS_LOGIN "login" // replace with your GPRS login
#define GPRS_PASSWORD "password" // replace with your GPRS password
// initialize the library instance
GSMClient client;
GPRS gprs;
GSM gsmAccess;
// URL, path & port (for example: arduino.cc)
char server[] = "arduino.cc";
char path[] = "/asciilogo.txt";
int port = 80; // port 80 is the default for HTTP
void setup() {
// initialize serial communications and wait for port to open:
Serial.begin(9600);
while (!Serial) {
; // wait for serial port to connect. Needed for native USB port only
}
Serial.println("Starting Arduino web client.");
// connection state
boolean notConnected = true;
// After starting the modem with GSM.begin()
// attach the shield to the GPRS network with the APN, login and password
while (notConnected) {
if ((gsmAccess.begin(PINNUMBER) == GSM_READY) &
(gprs.attachGPRS(GPRS_APN, GPRS_LOGIN, GPRS_PASSWORD) == GPRS_READY)) {
notConnected = false;
} else {
Serial.println("Not connected");
delay(1000);
}
}
Serial.println("connecting...");
// if you get a connection, report back via serial:
if (client.connect(server, port)) {
Serial.println("connected");
// Make a HTTP request:
client.print("GET ");
client.print(path);
client.println(" HTTP/1.1");
client.print("Host: ");
client.println(server);
client.println("Connection: close");
client.println();
} else {
// if you didn't get a connection to the server:
Serial.println("connection failed");
}
}
void loop() {
// if there are incoming bytes available
// from the server, read them and print them:
if (client.available()) {
char c = client.read();
Serial.print(c);
}
// if the server's disconnected, stop the client:
if (!client.available() && !client.connected()) {
Serial.println();
Serial.println("disconnecting.");
client.stop();
// do nothing forevermore:
for (;;)
;
}
}
I'm looking at the last hurdle now...
Does anyone have a suggestion or an example?
Best Regards,
Stephan
