Problems with 2.4g wireless system

[tommoore]

So i've inherited a sketch and as i'm already discovering it's using some obscure libraries and configurations. In a nutshell it's a simple remote control using 2 RF Nano's

//Transmitter program
#include <SPI.h>
#include "Mirf.h"
#include "nRF24L01.h"
#include "MirfHardwareSpiDriver.h"
Nrf24l Mirf = Nrf24l(10, 9);

int value;

const int BUTTON1 = 2;
const int BUTTON2 = 3;
const int BUTTON3 = 4;
const int BUTTON4 = 5;
const int BUTTON5 = 6;
const int BUTTON6 = 7;
int BUTTONstate1 = 0;
int BUTTONstate2 = 0;
int BUTTONstate3 = 0;
int BUTTONstate4 = 0;
int BUTTONstate5 = 0;
int BUTTONstate6 = 0;

void setup()
{

  pinMode(BUTTON1, INPUT);
  pinMode(BUTTON2, INPUT);
  pinMode(BUTTON3, INPUT);
  pinMode(BUTTON4, INPUT);
  pinMode(BUTTON5, INPUT);
  pinMode(BUTTON6, INPUT);

  Serial.begin(9600);
  Mirf.spi = &MirfHardwareSpi;
  Mirf.init();
  //Set your own address (sender address) using 5 characters
  Mirf.setRADDR((byte *)"ABCDE");
  Mirf.payload = sizeof(value);
  Mirf.channel = 90;              //Set the channel used
  Mirf.config();
}

void loop()
{
  Mirf.setTADDR((byte *)"FGHIJ");           //Set the receiver address
   Button1();
   Button2();
   Button3();
   Button4();
   Button5();
   Button6();
   delay(1000);
   }
   void Button1()
   {
   BUTTONstate1 = digitalRead(BUTTON1);
  if (BUTTONstate1 == HIGH)
  {
   value = 1;                     
  }                   
  Mirf.send((byte *)&value);                //Send instructions, send random number value
  Serial.print("Wait for sending.....");
  while (Mirf.isSending()) delay(1);        //Until you send successfully, exit the loop
  Serial.print("Send success:");
  Serial.println(value);
}
   void Button2()
   {
   BUTTONstate2 = digitalRead(BUTTON2);
  if (BUTTONstate2 == HIGH)
  {
   value = 2;                  
  }                   
  Mirf.send((byte *)&value);                //Send instructions, send random number value
  Serial.print("Wait for sending.....");
  while (Mirf.isSending()) delay(1);        //Until you send successfully, exit the loop
  Serial.print("Send success:");
  Serial.println(value);
}
   void Button3()
   {
   BUTTONstate3 = digitalRead(BUTTON3);
  if (BUTTONstate3 == HIGH)
  {
   value = 3;                  
  }                   
  Mirf.send((byte *)&value);                //Send instructions, send random number value
  Serial.print("Wait for sending.....");
  while (Mirf.isSending()) delay(1);        //Until you send successfully, exit the loop
  Serial.print("Send success:");
  Serial.println(value);
}
   void Button4()
   {
   BUTTONstate4 = digitalRead(BUTTON4);
  if (BUTTONstate4 == HIGH)
  {
   value = 4;                     
  }                   
  Mirf.send((byte *)&value);                //Send instructions, send random number value
  Serial.print("Wait for sending.....");
  while (Mirf.isSending()) delay(1);        //Until you send successfully, exit the loop
  Serial.print("Send success:");
  Serial.println(value);
}
   void Button5()
   {
   BUTTONstate5 = digitalRead(BUTTON5);
  if (BUTTONstate5 == HIGH)
  {
   value = 5;                      
  }                   
  Mirf.send((byte *)&value);                //Send instructions, send random number value
  Serial.print("Wait for sending.....");
  while (Mirf.isSending()) delay(1);        //Until you send successfully, exit the loop
  Serial.print("Send success:");
  Serial.println(value);
}
   void Button6()
   {
   BUTTONstate6 = digitalRead(BUTTON6);
  if (BUTTONstate6 == HIGH)
  {
   value = 6;                      
  }                   
  Mirf.send((byte *)&value);                //Send instructions, send random number value
  Serial.print("Wait for sending.....");
  while (Mirf.isSending()) delay(1);        //Until you send successfully, exit the loop
  Serial.print("Send success:");
  Serial.println(value);
}

and the receiver

//Receiver program
#include <SPI.h>
#include "Mirf.h"
#include "nRF24L01.h"
#include "MirfHardwareSpiDriver.h"
Nrf24l Mirf = Nrf24l(10, 9);
int value;

const int LED1 = 2;
const int LED2 = 3;
const int LED3 = 4;
const int LED4 = 5;
const int LED5 = 6;
const int LED6 = 7;

void setup()
{

  pinMode(LED1, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(LED2, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(LED3, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(LED4, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(LED5, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(LED6, OUTPUT);

  Serial.begin(9600);
  Mirf.spi = &MirfHardwareSpi;
  Mirf.init();

  Mirf.setRADDR((byte *)"FGHIJ"); //Set your own address (receiver address) using 5 characters
  Mirf.payload = sizeof(value);
  Mirf.channel = 90;             //Set the used channel
  Mirf.config();
  Serial.println("Listening...");  //Start listening to received data
}

void loop()
{
  if (Mirf.dataReady()) { //When the program is received, the received data is output from the serial port
    Mirf.getData((byte *) &value);
    Serial.print("Got data: ");
    Serial.println(value);
    case1();
    case2();
    case3();
    case4();
    case5();
    case6();
    }
}
 void case1()
 {
if (value == 1)
  {
    digitalWrite(LED1, HIGH);
  } 
  else{
    digitalWrite(LED1, LOW);
  }
} 
 void case2()
 {
if (value == 2)
  {
    digitalWrite(LED2, HIGH);
  } 
  else{
    digitalWrite(LED2, LOW);
  }
} 

 void case3()
 {
if (value == 3)
  {
    digitalWrite(LED3, HIGH);
  } 
  else{
    digitalWrite(LED3, LOW);
  }
} 

 void case4()
 {
if (value == 4)
  {
    digitalWrite(LED4, HIGH);
  } 
  else{
    digitalWrite(LED4, LOW);
  }
} 

 void case5()
 {
if (value == 5)
  {
    digitalWrite(LED5, HIGH);
  } 
  else{
    digitalWrite(LED5, LOW);
  }
} 

 void case6()
 {
if (value == 6)
  {
    digitalWrite(LED6, HIGH);
  } 
  else{
    digitalWrite(LED6, LOW);
  }
} 

Currently when compiling i get the error message

receiver:6:27: error: no matching function for call to 'Nrf24l::Nrf24l(int, int)'
 Nrf24l Mirf = Nrf24l(10, 9);
                           ^
In file included from C:\Users\thomas\Dropbox\Arduino\2.4g_remote_nano\receiver\receiver\receiver.ino:3:0:
C:\Users\thomas\Dropbox\My PC (DESKTOP-D9H8EF8)\Documents\Arduino\libraries\Mirf/Mirf.h:42:3: note: candidate: Nrf24l::Nrf24l()
   Nrf24l();
   ^~~~~~
C:\Users\thomas\Dropbox\My PC (DESKTOP-D9H8EF8)\Documents\Arduino\libraries\Mirf/Mirf.h:42:3: note:   candidate expects 0 arguments, 2 provided
C:\Users\thomas\Dropbox\My PC (DESKTOP-D9H8EF8)\Documents\Arduino\libraries\Mirf/Mirf.h:40:7: note: candidate: constexpr Nrf24l::Nrf24l(const Nrf24l&)
 class Nrf24l {
       ^~~~~~
C:\Users\thomas\Dropbox\My PC (DESKTOP-D9H8EF8)\Documents\Arduino\libraries\Mirf/Mirf.h:40:7: note:   candidate expects 1 argument, 2 provided
C:\Users\thomas\Dropbox\My PC (DESKTOP-D9H8EF8)\Documents\Arduino\libraries\Mirf/Mirf.h:40:7: note: candidate: constexpr Nrf24l::Nrf24l(Nrf24l&&)
C:\Users\thomas\Dropbox\My PC (DESKTOP-D9H8EF8)\Documents\Arduino\libraries\Mirf/Mirf.h:40:7: note:   candidate expects 1 argument, 2 provided
exit status 1
no matching function for call to 'Nrf24l::Nrf24l(int, int)'

It's beyond my ability to rewrite this from scratch and i've spent 2 days googling terms and library names to try and understand how to fix the problem myself with no luck. I /assume/ (since that's been a recurring problem) that i'm using the wrong library version or settings but am clueless as to what or how it should be?

Help?

[srnet]

Try this tutorial;

Simple nRF24L01+ 2.4GHz transceiver demo

Introduction The nRF24L01+ 2.4GHz transceiver modules are cheap and very effective but I have come across a few Threads in which people were having trouble with them so I thought it might be useful to gather together in one place a basic step-by-step sequence for getting them to work. EDIT 03 Feb 2021 - For this Tutorial install Version 1.1.7 of the RF24 library (available with the Arduino Library Manager). More information in Reply #30. Edit 29 Aug 2016. I have today downloaded and successfu…

[tommoore]

That's one I've already found through google - it doesn't (at least to my eyes) use several of the same libraries and doesn't have anything close to the line that's generating the errors when compiling. Is there a specific bit of that guide i should be focusing on that I'm missing?

[srnet]

Rather than trying to get an old library working with the current IDE, it might be easier to re-write the sketch to use one of the modern libraries for the NRF24.

[tommoore]

As i mentioned above I didn't author this originally and it is well beyond my abilities to write it from scratch - a little tinkering and tweaking is about my coding limit.

[SteveMann]

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