I am currently experiencing some issues with the RFM69HCW breakout board from adafruit (Overview | Adafruit RFM69HCW and RFM9X LoRa Packet Radio Breakouts | Adafruit Learning System). My wiring is the same as shown in their example: Adafruit Learning System with the little difference that I am using an Arduino Nano instead. Furthermore I am using a slightly modified version of their code:
// rf69 demo tx rx.pde
// -*- mode: C++ -*-
// Example sketch showing how to create a simple messageing client
// with the RH_RF69 class. RH_RF69 class does not provide for addressing or
// reliability, so you should only use RH_RF69 if you do not need the higher
// level messaging abilities.
// It is designed to work with the other example rf69_server.
// Demonstrates the use of AES encryption, setting the frequency and modem
// configuration
#include <SPI.h>
#include <RH_RF69.h>
#define RFM69_CS 4
#define RFM69_INT 3
#define RFM69_RST 2
#define LED LED_BUILTIN
#define RF69_FREQ 433.0
// Singleton instance of the radio driver
RH_RF69 rf69(RFM69_CS, RFM69_INT);
int16_t packetnum = 0; // packet counter, we increment per xmission
void setup()
{
Serial.begin(115200);
//while (!Serial) { delay(1); } // wait until serial console is open, remove if not tethered to computer
pinMode(LED, OUTPUT);
pinMode(RFM69_RST, OUTPUT);
digitalWrite(RFM69_RST, LOW);
Serial.println("Feather RFM69 TX Test!");
Serial.println();
// manual reset
digitalWrite(RFM69_RST, HIGH);
delay(10);
digitalWrite(RFM69_RST, LOW);
delay(10);
if (!rf69.init()) {
Serial.println("RFM69 radio init failed");
while (1);
}
Serial.println("RFM69 radio init OK!");
// Defaults after init are 434.0MHz, modulation GFSK_Rb250Fd250, +13dbM (for low power module)
// No encryption
if (!rf69.setFrequency(RF69_FREQ)) {
Serial.println("setFrequency failed");
}
// 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
// The encryption key has to be the same as the one in the server
uint8_t key[] = { 0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04, 0x05, 0x06, 0x07, 0x08,
0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04, 0x05, 0x06, 0x07, 0x08};
rf69.setEncryptionKey(key);
pinMode(LED, OUTPUT);
Serial.print("RFM69 radio @"); Serial.print((int)RF69_FREQ); Serial.println(" MHz");
}
void loop() {
delay(1000); // Wait 1 second between transmits, could also 'sleep' here!
char radiopacket[20] = "Hello World #";
itoa(packetnum++, radiopacket+13, 10);
Serial.print("Sending "); Serial.println(radiopacket);
// Send a message!
rf69.send((uint8_t *)radiopacket, strlen(radiopacket));
rf69.waitPacketSent();
// Now wait for a reply
uint8_t buf[RH_RF69_MAX_MESSAGE_LEN];
uint8_t len = sizeof(buf);
if (rf69.waitAvailableTimeout(500)) {
// Should be a reply message for us now
if (rf69.recv(buf, &len)) {
Serial.print("Got a reply: ");
Serial.println((char*)buf);
Blink(LED, 50, 3); //blink LED 3 times, 50ms between blinks
} else {
Serial.println("Receive failed");
}
} else {
Serial.println("No reply, is another RFM69 listening?");
}
}
void Blink(byte PIN, byte DELAY_MS, byte loops) {
for (byte i=0; i<loops; i++) {
digitalWrite(PIN,HIGH);
delay(DELAY_MS);
digitalWrite(PIN,LOW);
delay(DELAY_MS);
}
}
However the rf69.init() always keeps failing. After messing around with the RadioHead library a bit, namely adding several Serial.println()s to the code, I found out that the RadioHead library was apparently not able to find a fitting device type. According to the comments in the library this means that no device is connected. I exchanged every part of the hardware including the wiring at least one time, nothing helped. If anyone has an idea on this please tell me.