Hi EagleSparrow,

My device is dead trying to move to 4.3.1, i may need to reflash the bootstrap and i am having lots of problems.
Can someone post links to everything to set this up from bare metal?

Let's get you back up and running first... [Then take a look at the NETMF SocketClient and HTTP Client samples to start working with HTTP, etc.]

On reflashing: put your board in bootloader mode (by pressing the pushbutton while powering your board up via your computer's USB port). Then run NetduinoUpdate.exe (which comes with the firmware you're targeting) and reflash your board. This will automatically reflash the bootloader and firmware and erase the code deployment area simultaneously. After doing this, run MFDeploy and go to "target > configuration > network config" menu option and re-enter your board's MAC address. That should get you back to factory conditions.

Does that help get you pointed in the right direction?

Welcome to the Netduino community,

Chris

this link appears broken http://www.netduino....MF43R2_Beta.msi

Fixed Thanks for letting me know, h3mp!

Chris

Hi ccondo,

Are things working now for you, with this latest update?

Chris

Hi h3mp,

will this work with the just-released visual studio 2013 "community edition" which is supposed to be a free version of pro??!?

The NETMF 4.3 R2 SDK may support VS2013 Community Edition, but we haven't tested that scenario quite yet. If it doesn't work for you (running the NETMF 4.3 R2 Beta SDK installer and then the VS2013 VSIX), let me know and I'll ping the .NET MF team at Microsoft again on this.

Chris

Spiked--very interesting. The SDK installer actually runs that same command-line argument to update the Visual Studio templates. I wonder if perhaps we're starting it as an asynchronous process and if loading Visual Studio before it's done causes the procedure to abort.

eugenhuber--the Netduino 4.3.1 SDK, even though it is marked as experimental, is basically release quality. We always like to test with the final VS bits before calling it "release"--but we're using it full-time with the NETMF 4.3.1 R2 SDK Beta today. If you want to be on VS2013, go ahead and upgrade. If you run into any VS2013-specific troubles, let us know, swap back to VS2012 and we'll work with Microsoft to resolve.

Chris

Quick note: the Netduino 4.3.1 SDK installer has been updated--and now officially supports Visual Studio 2013 (including Visual Studio 2013 Express for Windows Desktop).

"Experimental" tag has been removed.

Chris

Gert--yes, you can use Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop with the 4.3.1 R2 SDK beta installer from Microsoft.
 
Gert and KristijanCetina -- after you install the VS2013 support, be sure to run the "Netduino 4.3.1 SDK for VS2013" installer. That will add the appropriate templates to VS2013.

Chris

A quick shout out to Netduino community member Valkyrie-MT for his work on CC3100.

Thank you so much for all your contributions.

You were a big inspiration behind the new Netduino 3 Wi-Fi hardware.

Chris

Hi Robert,

+1 to UDP Multicast support! (And brilliant, on the Universal side, thanks for the info!!)

Just FYI...we added UDP multicast support (experimental) in the Netduino 3 Wi-Fi v4.3.2.1 firmware Just add the NetduinoExtensions.dll assembly to your project and you should be good to go.

Chris

Hi Anthony,
 

Will the new networking stack support multicast?

Ask and ye shall receive We have added experimental support for multicast to the new Netduino 3 Wi-Fi 4.3.2.1 firwmare.
http://forums.netdui...-v432-update-1/

We have also created a new MulticastOption class and SetSocketOption method overload in NetduinoExtensions.dll (in the new Netduino 4.3.2 SDK).

Chris

P.S. Experimental features have not received the same amount of testing as core features and are not (at least yet) officially supported. But we wanted to wire this up for you to help enable your projects; enjoy

Hi guido,

Is there any news regarding a watchdog, and is it possibler to connect an external antenna?

There is no external antenna connector, although if there was really strong demand we could make a special version with an external antenna connector. There are some FCC/CE regulations around that so it would need to be studied further.

Watchdog is definitely something that we could add to the firmware. Are you looking for something that you could kick frequently--and have the board reboot if your code stopped kicking the watchdog? What kind of time resolution are you looking for (milliseconds? seconds? minutes?) Also--would other be interested in watchdog support?

Chris

Hi Anthony,

Will the new networking stack support multicast?  Will we have control over the max. number of open sockets?  Is the networking performance improved over that of the Plus 2?

Networking on NETMF-class devices is designed for lower-bandwidth end nodes (i.e. not video streaming, etc.) The CC3100 can natively transmit more than 10mbps in theory--but there are some practical bottlenecks that can get in the way of that.

On sockets: the hybrid stack supports up to 8 simultaneous non-secure sockets and up to 2 simultaneously SSL/TLS sockets. If you are running a TCP server on the board, that needs 1 socket for the listener and 1 socket per client.

On multicast: are you wanting to subscribe to multicast groups?

BTW, there's a possibility that we can run the full upcoming Netduino.IP stack on CC3100 (using CC3100 as a MAC-layer-only chip). In that scenario you'd be able to open up even more sockets. If that is of interest to many community members, we can put that on the investigation/feature list.

Chris

Hi neslekkim,

Got it: https://instagram.com/p/2_cUQJjOgg/
No blue box, no cable
 
Well, it probably made it easyer/cheaper to ship, and unless the cable is magic something, I have heaps of them..  

Woot: it made it!

Yeah, pretty much everyone should have a drawerful of MicroUSB cables by now: probably best not to add unnecessarily to landfills... [Plus the USB cables can add quite a bit of shipping cost to international shipments...they're about as heavy as the boards themselves.]

I found no reason to try to register for the "thank you gift" yet, since there will problably newer be an way for international customers to use that.. ?

If you can cover the cost of international shipping (perhaps cheaper USPS first class mail?), we'll do our best to get you goodies

Chris

What is happening to the Ethernet version?

 

You have PM

Chris

Hi Phil,

What is the status of the Shield base via the Go bus and the Netduino 3?

Netduino 3 supports all the production-firmware GoBus modules (everything but Shield Base, which is in beta). As we bring Shield Base out of beta, we will be adding support for it to the Netduino 3 core (which core will be shared with Netduino Go mainboard as well).

Welcome to the Netduino community,

Chris

Hi Zombiecoder,

Just ordered a Netduino3 Wi-Fi. As a .net programmer, I am very excited.

Awesome! Welcome to the community, and please share your projects with us so we can see your creations as well!

Chris

Hi danutm,

Is Netduino 3 Wifi supported in Visual Studio 2013 or in a previous version? I don't see a project template Visual C#/Micro Framework/Netduino 3 Wifi Application, as the R2 beta plug-in was released all the way in November 2014.

Yes, absolutely. We'll actually be shipping a new Netduino SDK next week (4.3.2) and Visual Studio 2013 will be the recommended IDE to use (until VS2015 ships and is fully supported soon).

For templates...you can use the Netduino Plus 2 application for now. The new SDK includes a simplified template scheme which I think you'll really like--and the new template is a superset of the Netduino Plus 2 template.

To configure your Wi-Fi settings, just open up MFDeploy's Network Config and set your SSID and passphrase. WPA2/PSK is automatically selected for you (and covers WPA2 as well).

Chris

Hi Joshk,
 

...will this work with SDHC cards?

The open source NETMF drivers work with standard MicroSD cards (up to 2GB).

Here's a link to the MicroSD card we use over at Amazon.com.

Chris

Great feedback, Sukasa.

But the killer feature of that would be the ability to roll back if something went wrong.

Dual-bank flash (and a good bootloader) are awesome that way

Chris

Definitely the SSL and AMQP.  The Wi-Fi is nice, but I prefer hardwired ethernet.  The GoBus is a plus that'll only get bigger over time, too.
 
The extra code space feels kind of meaningless, however.  Even on my N+1 I never came close to running out of room for binaries; it was always the RAM that was constricting.

Good news: you now have 64 KB more RAM too. And with Netduino.IP, even more...since it's very resourceful on memory itself

By default we actually allocate the flash as two 1MB sections (with 384KB available for code, as before). It's a special kind of flash called dual-bank flash which would, in theory, let us receive a complete firmware update (NETMF, app, etc.) over the air...and flash the second 1MB with it...and then reboot into the second half of flash. Would that be interesting to enable?

Or you know...extra storage for web page assets, etc. Although MicroSD already works great for that.

Chris

Hi Joshk,

For my 70 Netduino Plus 2 I have spend $700 in cards.

I've put "simple storage" on the feature request list. This is something community members can attack and we can incorporate into the firmware. Or it's something we can attack, once we get a few other items out of the way... I do understand where this would be valuable.

Chris

Hey Frode,

Nice! I'm on holiday in the US for the first time, and have ordered it from Amazon to the hotel. Amazon doesn't ship to Norway, so I'm in luck I'm in Florida now.

Very convenient Welcome to Florida!

Can't wait to try the new Wifi-board.

We'd love photos, first impressions, etc. when you unbox your new baby!

Chris

Hi tridy.net,

Got my Netduino 3 WiFi today (actually my first one). Kids are asleep and I have managed to get the example with blinking led running by using Netduino 2 template in VS2013. For the next step I would like to test the WiFi connectivity. I think I have configured it correctly vai "Network Configuration" of ".Net Micro Framework Deployment Tool," so now, what is the easiest way of testing if wifi works/configured correctly? Is it by create a web request? Pinging the router?

That's it! If you've set your SSID and password in MFDeploy Network Configuration, you should be up and running.

If the LED is yellow then the Netduino 3 Wi-Fi is searching for your access point. If the LED is green then it has connected to your access point.

To test your Wi-Fi connectivity, you can also create a new app and add the following code:

while (IPAddress.GetDefaultLocalAddress() == IPAddress.Any) ; // wait for DHCP

Debug.Print("ip address: " + IPAddress.GetDefaultLocalAddress());

Thread.Sleep(Timeout.Infinite);

This will wait for your Netduino to connect to your Wi-Fi network (i.e. until it gets a DHCP-allocated address), print out the IP address, and then go to sleep forever (without terminating the app).

Once you know your board's IP address, ping away

Does that get you up and running?

Welcome to the Netduino community!

Chris

Hi energywave,

It's possible to add an external EEPROM (for a dollar or so) to store data via I2C/SPI on Netduino 2s today, but no internal storage mechanism (outside of deploying data with your code).

I'll add a +1 to the "simple storage" feature request.

Chris

P.S. Glad you like the improvements on Netduino 3. There are a lot of improvements we haven't covered yet too ; more to come

P.P.S. Any photos you can share on your project with the N2s? We always love seeing the cool stuff that community members are building with Netduinos!

Hey phantomtypist, welcome!
 

I have NETMF SDK 4.3 QFE2 installed and Netduino SDK 4.3.1 (February 2014) installed.  When I plug the Netduino 3 Wi-Fi into the computer via USB, it is not detected by MFDeploy nor Visual Studio 2012.
 
I'm guessing I'm missing some new version of the Netduino SDK, correct?

Netduino 3 works with the Netduino 4.3.1 SDK or newer.

When you plug in the Netduino 3, what shows up in Device Manager?

If the driver is not loading, try repairing the Netduino SDK really quickly.

As long as the driver is loading, it should just show up in MFDeploy USB devices.

Chris