Hello,
Many times these forums focus on problems. (like my last set of posts)

I wanted to start a THEY WORK thread.

After finding an appropriate serial converter (Silabs 2102 in my case), the wireless comms worked fine.
I can easily transmit from the basement to the ground floor at the opposite end of the house (50+feet).

The person who helped me with my issues (the big bear Avater) asked that I post pictures while we were sorting out my problem, but I never did, so I thought that here would be a good place to put them.

The Protoboard has a 5V supply attached to the shield, and a heartbeat LED as well. The serial line breakout is on the right and is jumpered to GND and pins 2 and 3.

The "other XRF" has a jumper (underneath) between pins 2 and 3 and is powered by batteries (on the same type of shield). 2 pins from a DIP socket were cut cut out of a large socket, soldered to the board, and 2 wires connected (underneath) to the pins on the bottom of the jack. (see bottom.jpg). The pins on the bottom make it easy to put the shield into a protoboard.

I have been using RealTerm for serial coms for a while now and it is quite handy for lots of things.
The letters 'a', 'b', 'c' were just typed (red = typed) and the loopback returned them (yellow = received)
The green text is send when the SEND ASCII is pressed. (and the yellow is returned)

Thank you once again.
My wireless link works!

Now... I need to try to upgrade the firmware on one of my XRFs so that I can use it with the relay board!

Sean

YAY!

So pleased you posted this, it's fabulous to hear good news

Most people (I hope) love the XRF family. Since the launch of the XRF not a single person has ever taken up the money back offer. Yes we've had to reprogram a few of the early 1.5's (now fixed after TI told us something they didn't document). Returns rate through physical failurs has been 0.016%. I'll let you into a secret, we think they are pretty special too, the TI hardware gives great range and we've now ironed out all the major wrinkles in getting the 8051 micro inside to dance like it does, it's been really difficult at times wrestling with such limited resources, CiscoDev is a god at programming the TI beast.

Off to Asda to do the shopping with a big smile on my face

Miles

My XRFs work too

I currently have an XRF connected to a raspberry pi (via a slice of pi), 2 thermistor CCBs and 2 XBBO connected to 2 atmegas feeding sensor data to the pi As of this weekend I also have a relay XRF in the mix

A total of 6 XRFs all working happily together.

As a new customer to ciseco i'm extremely happy with the price, service and most importantly - the product! Thanks ciseco! Keep smiling Miles