Simple test¶
Ensure your device works with this simple test.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 | # Simple example to send a message and then wait indefinitely for messages
# to be received. This uses the default RadioHead compatible GFSK_Rb250_Fd250
# modulation and packet format for the radio.
# Author: Tony DiCola
import board
import busio
import digitalio
import adafruit_rfm69
# Define radio parameters.
RADIO_FREQ_MHZ = 915.0 # Frequency of the radio in Mhz. Must match your
# module! Can be a value like 915.0, 433.0, etc.
# Define pins connected to the chip, use these if wiring up the breakout according to the guide:
CS = digitalio.DigitalInOut(board.D5)
RESET = digitalio.DigitalInOut(board.D6)
# Or uncomment and instead use these if using a Feather M0 RFM69 board
# and the appropriate CircuitPython build:
#CS = digitalio.DigitalInOut(board.RFM69_CS)
#RESET = digitalio.DigitalInOut(board.RFM69_RST)
# Initialize SPI bus.
spi = busio.SPI(board.SCK, MOSI=board.MOSI, MISO=board.MISO)
# Initialze RFM radio
rfm69 = adafruit_rfm69.RFM69(spi, CS, RESET, RADIO_FREQ_MHZ)
# Optionally set an encryption key (16 byte AES key). MUST match both
# on the transmitter and receiver (or be set to None to disable/the default).
rfm69.encryption_key = b'\x01\x02\x03\x04\x05\x06\x07\x08\x01\x02\x03\x04\x05\x06\x07\x08'
# Print out some chip state:
print('Temperature: {0}C'.format(rfm69.temperature))
print('Frequency: {0}mhz'.format(rfm69.frequency_mhz))
print('Bit rate: {0}kbit/s'.format(rfm69.bitrate/1000))
print('Frequency deviation: {0}hz'.format(rfm69.frequency_deviation))
# Send a packet. Note you can only send a packet up to 60 bytes in length.
# This is a limitation of the radio packet size, so if you need to send larger
# amounts of data you will need to break it into smaller send calls. Each send
# call will wait for the previous one to finish before continuing.
rfm69.send(bytes('Hello world!\r\n',"utf-8"))
print('Sent hello world message!')
# Wait to receive packets. Note that this library can't receive data at a fast
# rate, in fact it can only receive and process one 60 byte packet at a time.
# This means you should only use this for low bandwidth scenarios, like sending
# and receiving a single message at a time.
print('Waiting for packets...')
while True:
packet = rfm69.receive()
# Optionally change the receive timeout from its default of 0.5 seconds:
#packet = rfm69.receive(timeout=5.0)
# If no packet was received during the timeout then None is returned.
if packet is None:
print('Received nothing! Listening again...')
else:
# Received a packet!
# Print out the raw bytes of the packet:
print('Received (raw bytes): {0}'.format(packet))
# And decode to ASCII text and print it too. Note that you always
# receive raw bytes and need to convert to a text format like ASCII
# if you intend to do string processing on your data. Make sure the
# sending side is sending ASCII data before you try to decode!
packet_text = str(packet, 'ascii')
print('Received (ASCII): {0}'.format(packet_text))
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