I am a newbie and am working on a home automation project with WiFi and selected CC3000. I have been trying to connect my Adafruit CC3000 Breakout board to Arduino Uno R3 with the following connections:
IRQ - pin 3
VBEN - pin 5
CS - pin 10
MOSI -11
MISO - 12
SCK - 13
Vin - 5V
GND - GND
and tried the buildtest provided in the AdafruitCC3000 library. The program just gets stuck on
Initializing CC3000.......
#include <Adafruit_CC3000.h>
#include <ccspi.h>
#include <SPI.h>
#include <string.h>
#include "utility/debug.h"
// These are the interrupt and control pins
#define ADAFRUIT_CC3000_IRQ 3 // MUST be an interrupt pin!
// These can be any two pins
#define ADAFRUIT_CC3000_VBAT 5
#define ADAFRUIT_CC3000_CS 10
// Use hardware SPI for the remaining pins
// On an UNO, SCK = 13, MISO = 12, and MOSI = 11
Adafruit_CC3000 cc3000 = Adafruit_CC3000(ADAFRUIT_CC3000_CS, ADAFRUIT_CC3000_IRQ, ADAFRUIT_CC3000_VBAT,
SPI_CLOCK_DIVIDER); // you can change this clock speed but DI
#define WLAN_SSID "myNetwork" // cannot be longer than 32 characters!
#define WLAN_PASS "myPassword"
// Security can be WLAN_SEC_UNSEC, WLAN_SEC_WEP, WLAN_SEC_WPA or WLAN_SEC_WPA2
#define WLAN_SECURITY WLAN_SEC_WPA2
/**************************************************************************/
/*!
@brief Sets up the HW and the CC3000 module (called automatically
on startup)
*/
/**************************************************************************/
void setup(void)
{
Serial.begin(115200);
Serial.println(F("Hello, CC3000!\n"));
displayDriverMode();
Serial.print("Free RAM: "); Serial.println(getFreeRam(), DEC);
/* Initialise the module */
Serial.println(F("\nInitialising the CC3000 ..."));
if (!cc3000.begin())
{
Serial.println(F("Unable to initialise the CC3000! Check your wiring?"));
while(1);
}
/* Optional: Update the Mac Address to a known value */
/*
uint8_t macAddress[6] = { 0x08, 0x00, 0x28, 0x01, 0x79, 0xB7 };
if (!cc3000.setMacAddress(macAddress))
{
Serial.println(F("Failed trying to update the MAC address"));
while(1);
}
*/
uint16_t firmware = checkFirmwareVersion();
if (firmware < 0x113) {
Serial.println(F("Wrong firmware version!"));
for(;;);
}
displayMACAddress();
/* Optional: Get the SSID list (not available in 'tiny' mode) */
#ifndef CC3000_TINY_DRIVER
listSSIDResults();
#endif
/* Delete any old connection data on the module */
Serial.println(F("\nDeleting old connection profiles"));
if (!cc3000.deleteProfiles()) {
Serial.println(F("Failed!"));
while(1);
}
/* Attempt to connect to an access point */
char *ssid = WLAN_SSID; /* Max 32 chars */
Serial.print(F("\nAttempting to connect to ")); Serial.println(ssid);
/* NOTE: Secure connections are not available in 'Tiny' mode! */
if (!cc3000.connectToAP(WLAN_SSID, WLAN_PASS, WLAN_SECURITY)) {
Serial.println(F("Failed!"));
while(1);
}
Serial.println(F("Connected!"));
/* Wait for DHCP to complete */
Serial.println(F("Request DHCP"));
while (!cc3000.checkDHCP())
{
delay(100); // ToDo: Insert a DHCP timeout!
}
/* Display the IP address DNS, Gateway, etc. */
while (! displayConnectionDetails()) {
delay(1000);
}
#ifndef CC3000_TINY_DRIVER
/* Try looking up www.adafruit.com */
uint32_t ip = 0;
Serial.print(F("www.adafruit.com -> "));
while (ip == 0) {
if (! cc3000.getHostByName("www.adafruit.com", &ip)) {
Serial.println(F("Couldn't resolve!"));
}
delay(500);
}
cc3000.printIPdotsRev(ip);
/* Do a quick ping test on adafruit.com */
Serial.print(F("\n\rPinging ")); cc3000.printIPdotsRev(ip); Serial.print("...");
uint8_t replies = cc3000.ping(ip, 5);
Serial.print(replies); Serial.println(F(" replies"));
if (replies)
Serial.println(F("Ping successful!"));
#endif
/* You need to make sure to clean up after yourself or the CC3000 can freak out */
/* the next time you try to connect ... */
Serial.println(F("\n\nClosing the connection"));
cc3000.disconnect();
}
void loop(void)
{
delay(1000);
}
It's the standard code provided in the library. This is my second breakout board. It just won't initialize. I do not understand. I have done the connection perfectly. I haven't made any changes to the code per say except changing the SSID and password. I am seriously stuck. Cant seem to figure out the problem.
I also tried using pins 2 and 7 instead of 3 and 5. The same problem occurs.
With my first module, I tried the buildtest code. It worked fine. Then it stopped working out of the blue. Removing all the connections and then rewiring it works like 2 out of 10 times. I then thought that it must a problem with firmware. Tried updating the firmware using Arduino Code and bricked it (apparently). I have tried every possible thing. There is a weird problem too. Sometimes when I connect the Arduino to my PC with the CC3000 attached (this is when the module was working), it scanned the networks and tried connecting to the specified SSID in the program. I have Belkin router and then suddenly the WiFi disappears. All the devices connected to the network also lose connection. When I unplug the USB , the Wifi comes back on.
Please help. I have been stuck on these issues for quite some time. I thought i might've bricked my old module and bought a new one. One running buildtest , the module gets stuck and doesn't initialize.