Arduino Uno with WiFly shield posting data to pachube

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Hi all,

I'm using an Arduino Uno with a WiFly shield from Sparkfun (http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9954) to try to post home energy use data to pachube. It works - the first time when I fire it up, but then it does not work on the following loops. Here is the posting code... is there something I need to send at the end to close the link?

I'm using WiFly.h library (WiFly Shield code library alpha 2 release - SparkFun Electronics Forum)

SpiSerial.println("open pachube.com 80");
  delay(1000);
  SpiSerial.print("POST /api/");
  SpiSerial.print(SHARE_FEED_ID);
  SpiSerial.print(".csv?_method=put HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: www.pachube.com\r\n");
  SpiSerial.print("X-PachubeApiKey: ");
  SpiSerial.print(PACHUBE_API_KEY);
  SpiSerial.print("\r\nContent-Length: ");
  SpiSerial.print(content_length);
  SpiSerial.print("\r\nConnection: close\r\n");
  SpiSerial.print("\r\n");
  SpiSerial.print(pachube_data);
  SpiSerial.print("\r\n");

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Brad

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Bear in mind, I don't use pachube OR the SpiSerial library, but I do use the Wifly Shield and connect with the open command. I think you need to close the connection.

If you do:
SpiSerial.println("open pachube.com 80");

While the connection is open, it will send that to the pachube page.

You need to go into command mode (Which should close the connection if open) and, as a redundency, issue the "close" command.

Then you can redo
SpiSerial.println("open pachube.com 80");

and start the process all over again.

Using SpiSerial and delays, the process looks like this:

delay(500); // Guard time for entry to Command Mode.
SpiSerial.print("$$$"); // Command Mode.
delay(500); // Guard time again, The module will have entered Command Mode 250 ms prior to this delay ending.
SpiSerial.println("close"); // Just in case the module was already IN Command Mode.
delay(1000);
SpiSerial.println("open pachube.com 80");