Ethernet with Arduino board

[pandimus]

A few questions regarding this thread.. First off good job both of you. lots of hard work. My question is. Are you using the arduino board for pwm also? Like dimming LED's? Are you fully comunicating with the arduino board, i/e can do more stuff with its processor?

thank you

Johnny

[DrewPalmer04]

Not fully communication. It's a stand alone. But look at my other thread PWM output on Ethernet module and it contains my simple code for PWM output/LED control

[pandimus]

Can it do both I/e pwm and Ethernet?

[DrewPalmer04]

Yes. It's in the other thread on this fourm

[Drs1210]

Does anybody else have this running on their RA? I'm experiencing problems when I hook it up the the RA.

[Drs1210]

Anybody?

[arch]

I built one this evening. Though I used an arduino uno and ethernet shield I had for another project.
Seems to all be working OK. What's the problem?

[DrewPalmer04]

He has a spastic water level expansion when the Ethernet option is plugged in. This option is pretty universal with any Ethernet shield combo.

[Drs1210]

I also had my red status light blinking, and my ph would bounce a little bit.

[arch]

Those using an Arduino without a 6 pin connector (i.e. not linked to the RA using the wifi cable - as recommended by DrewPalmer04), might find the following useful:

The wiring to connect the RA to the Ethernet add-on is as follows:

RA Pin 1 (on RHS of controller) - GND (Black WIFI Cable) – to Arduino GND
RA Pin 4 - RX (Blue WIFI Cable) – to Arduino TX (Digital Pin 1)
RA Pin 5 – TX (Yellow WIFI Cable) – to Arduino RX (Digital Pin 0)
RA Pin 7 - 5V (Red WIFI Cable) – to Arduino 5V

[arch]

Everything is working nicely with my new Ethernet add-on so far (thanks DrewPalmer04) ....except....

I can't control the RA with the iphone app (which was working with wifi - now get "Error Unable to connect"). The portal and android app seem to work fine - any ideas what the difference might be?

[DrewPalmer04]

Double check WAN IP and port under "settings" at the bottom

[arch]

Yeah IP is fine.

I see over at the iphone app thread you're reporting the same problem.

Must be the new tags - I'd just attributed it to the ethernet add-on because I started having problems when I swapped over.

[DrewPalmer04]

Yes...just encountered the issue. I'm thinking XML tags. I wish I had a dev account hope the others come up with a release ASAP.

[arch]

Well i reconnected my wifi module and the iphone app works again - so if it is the extra xml tags, it appears to effect the ethernet add-on specifically?

I've actually had another related issue to contend with too - my dyndns hostname expired. Apparently dyn.com have changed their policies re free accounts - you now need to login to their website monthly to keep it active "using an update client will no longer suffice for this monthly login".

[DrewPalmer04]

I've tried resets and my WAN IP and dyndns and after a couple days of testing it would consistently crash...now today...working perfectly. Lol sooooooo weird!!!!

[DrewPalmer04]

It is definitely app specific. I've never lost data to the RA server. So it's not the Ethernet module... I've had a consistent data pool throughout.

[carlii]

So I have a question for those using the RJ45 Ethernet module. What are you using as a case to protect the module?

[paulvisco]

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10088

one like this would do it

and a different twist

http://www.zigo.am/products/custom-ardu ... le-height/

[carlii]

Thanks.

[DrewPalmer04]

Hope all are doing well on RA! Miss you all. I have a new born and once he is a bit older he and I will enjoy the RA and a new salt tank! Like my sig says....out for now but not over!

Keep up the great dev and hope to see great new things in the future!

[lnevo]

Hey Drew! That explains where you been. Glad to here all is well! Happy Holidays and healthy New Year!!!