Genious

Using one port for two devices is a very good idea. Thanks for that! Just read through your linked thread - I'm also thinking about a sort-of-reverse-geocache project, but I also want to add a bit of logging so that I can see the route the box took to the destination.

Thanks for the info on the 'H', Mustang.

In the end I got it booting into ad-hoc (by setting up ad-hoc with an Arduino program) and connected from the laptop. Was able to telnet in on port 80, enter command mode and send data as you'd expect.

Swapped the shield over to the netduino with a simple program to copy every received char to Debug.Write. Nothing happened.

Plugged back into Arduino and now the red comms light doesn't flash when the Arduino boots (so no comms at all from the SPI/Serial). Have I killed the WiFly..? probably. No clue how I managed it though, and the other lights still flash when it's powered.

Totally confused and quite miserable about the £60 I may have just flushed down the toilet!!

Dan

To be honest, no clue what mode it's in - or even if there's data getting through! The code I've tried so far (see snippet in my first post) attempts to enter command mode to issue the appropriate commands to connect to my wireless, but nothing seems to happen.

I have been assuming up to now that it's because A: The serial commands I'm sending are garbled somehow or B: The unit fails to enter command mode.

Since I can't analyse the serial comms, there's not much more I can work out!

Dan

Hi all, thanks for the feedback on all this - I'll try and give it a go this week and see if I can get it up and running.

Power: Fine on my board as I use external power and was managing to read something back anyway.
SPI/Serial: Looks like I'm setting that up correctly as my init code matches Innovactive's.
Writing: The only difference is that I call _spi.Write twice but Innovactive just calls it once (which is much more elegant if nothing else!).

Quiche31: Maybe I have this problem too? I don't understand why I can't get it into command mode with the Netduino, but the Arduino running the Sparkfun demo code gets it right every time!

Has anyone managed to get commands into the module from the Netduino or is everyone just preconfiguring with a PC connection?

Innovactive: Can you post the body of your SpiUartReadByte method? Just want to check it matches mine!

Excellent work with the Silverlight GUI by the way. I'm a WPF developer for a living, so I like to see good looking WPF/Silverlight GUIs. I'd hoped to make a similar one for remote control of my little robot project.

Cheers,

Dan

Any luck so far? Dan