aarg:
Sure. But it's hard to help someone on a forum alone because of the depth and extent of the subject matter. You have to do some basic research, and present questions that revolve around specific issues that you find. So the first stop for you, is all the documentation that you can find on the equipment. It's not just a beginner thing, it's what all successful developers have to do. Even after many years...
Have you seen this?
Using the RFM69 Radio | Adafruit Feather 32u4 Radio with RFM69HCW Module | Adafruit Learning System
I've read through that several times now and tried uploading the RadioHead69_RawDemo_RX it suggests. I get an error though here:
// If you are using a high power RF69 eg RFM69HW, you *must* set a Tx power with the
// ishighpowermodule flag set like this:
rf69.setTxPower(20, true); // range from 14-20 for power, 2nd arg must be true for 69HCW
I don't have it in front of me but it says something to the effect of 'rf69.setTxPower not defined'. Which, I'm probably completely mistaken, but it's not transmitting anything so why would it need to define that in the first place?
aarg:
Also, it's not entirely inappropriate to say, "give up", because some projects are just too complicated for a beginner level developer. But it is more appropriate to suggest working through a large number of easier projects first. It's like math - you can't just jump into Calculus.
I understand what you're saying. It just seems though that this shouldn't be too complicated compared to what is out there. I'm pretty sure I understand the code enough to tell the board what to do when it receives the signal. It's just getting that signal to jump properly. I feel like I'm this close to getting it to do what I want, which is why I'm super frustrated with it.
The reason why I thought about building my own remote is that I saw a video where someone took two Feather M0 boards and had one the receiver and one the transmitter. They uploaded the RX and TX codes and it went off without a hitch because they spoke the same language. It would just be a matter then of when button 1 is pressed send button 1, and so on.
aarg:
The RadioHead library has ASK example sketches that just print out whatever the remote sends. You should set that up and play with it.
I'll look through the RadioHead library for that tonight when I get home. I didn't know that was in there. Thank you.