I ordered my first Netduino Plus and am waiting delivery. I have an application that will work in a building connected to ethernet and I hope this board will replace a BF430 and custom temperature sensor board I already have installed.
I also have another application idea but the project will be located in the middle of a corn field in Nebraska. No wifi, ethernet, or 3g/4g. We have brand new Verizon tower near. Anyone have a good idea to get data from MON (Middle Of Nowhere) to internet on the cheap? I understand there may be monthly charges involved.
Thanks.
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Started by ljbeng, May 10 2012 03:11 PM
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Posted 10 May 2012 - 07:11 PM
How much data and how often? Just wondering if SMS is an option.I also have another application idea but the project will be located in the middle of a corn field in Nebraska. No wifi, ethernet, or 3g/4g. We have brand new Verizon tower near. Anyone have a good idea to get data from MON (Middle Of Nowhere) to internet on the cheap? I understand there may be monthly charges involved.
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Posted 10 May 2012 - 08:55 PM
More like data logging every 10 minutes the temperature and current operating conditions. (~80 bytes)
Just looked at Verizon's site and our tower is 3G but not 4G.
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Posted 10 May 2012 - 09:21 PM
Take a look at this product. Not cheap, but may do the job. Cellular Shield
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Posted 11 May 2012 - 03:37 AM
I ordered my first Netduino Plus and am waiting delivery. I have an application that will work in a building connected to ethernet and I hope this board will replace a BF430 and custom temperature sensor board I already have installed.
I also have another application idea but the project will be located in the middle of a corn field in Nebraska. No wifi, ethernet, or 3g/4g. We have brand new Verizon tower near. Anyone have a good idea to get data from MON (Middle Of Nowhere) to internet on the cheap? I understand there may be monthly charges involved.
Thanks.
We are realizing a system that fits exactly situations like yours. To be more specific, it's radio based (no cellular=no cost), optionally solar powered, and the range is some km. You can connect almost any sensor, but when it's solar powered there are some limitation. The Netduino is not involved in that, though.
You only should have some patience. I guess it should be ready within some month.
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Posted 17 May 2012 - 05:13 PM
Thanks for the replies...
I got the Units today and have it on the .net deugger. .Net keeps telling me "An error has occurred. Please check you hardware" I have to pull the usb cable off and back in and sometimes this helps not always. Any ideas why. I am deploying a program to check pulse widths from a temp sensor TMP03.
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Posted 17 May 2012 - 05:25 PM
Hi ljbeng,Thanks for the replies...
I got the Units today and have it on the .net deugger. .Net keeps telling me "An error has occurred. Please check you hardware" I have to pull the usb cable off and back in and sometimes this helps not always. Any ideas why. I am deploying a program to check pulse widths from a temp sensor TMP03.
Can you PING the device using MFDeploy (Start > Programs > .NET Micro Framework > Tools > MFDeploy.exe)?
I'm guessing that Visual Studio is trying to deploy the wrong assemblies (or wrong version of assemblies) to your board. Are you running the 4.1 or 4.2 SDK? If you just received your board, it should be running 4.1.
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Posted 17 May 2012 - 07:48 PM
4.1.2821.0
Pinging....TinyCLR
That is all I get.
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Posted 17 May 2012 - 08:11 PM
Hi Luke,
How big is your app? I bet that it's larger than the 64KB of flash available for code on the board. If you deploy a simple "hello world" (blinky) type of app, does that work?
Finally...open up project properties. Go to the ".NET Micro Framework" tab, and change the transport from USB to SERIAL and then back to USB. Save and redeploy. [It may be that Visual Studio is trying to deploy to the wrong device...although I think this is more likely a size issue.]
Chris
Okay, that's good. That means your board is booting.4.1.2821.0
Pinging....TinyCLR
That is all I get.
How big is your app? I bet that it's larger than the 64KB of flash available for code on the board. If you deploy a simple "hello world" (blinky) type of app, does that work?
Finally...open up project properties. Go to the ".NET Micro Framework" tab, and change the transport from USB to SERIAL and then back to USB. Save and redeploy. [It may be that Visual Studio is trying to deploy to the wrong device...although I think this is more likely a size issue.]
Chris
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Posted 18 May 2012 - 02:57 PM
It is acting better now, I don't know why it was acting up.
My programs are very small.
I just tried Hello Pachube example to get started with ethernet activity.
var voltagePort = new AnalogInput(Pins.GPIO_PIN_A1);
The above line is not computing. AnalogInput is wavy underlined and Error reads:
Error 1 The type or namespace name 'AnalogInput' could not be found
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