DougPope
USA
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After Midnight Thursday, 14 March 2013
Good Morning EZ-Robot.com Hardware Team !
Last week I received my ElecHouse UART-WiFi Kit, and got it Connecting to my Home Router with help from Robot-Doc, who led me to the TLG10UA03,
I have attached my Screenshots and Test Procedure, "13-Mar-2013 ElecHouse WiFi UART Serial Terminal Loop-Back Test.doc", and my ARC File of the same name.
I am using DJ's New Serial Terminal within ARC; seems to WORK GREAT, but I need to LEARN MORE on its proper use ?
My Question is, Exactly Where Do I Loop-Back the WiFi Module; I tried Tx-to-Rx with No Success ?
Thank You All & Best Wishes,
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One more more thing. (this may be usual, but I was confused for a bit). The diagram that identifies the pin numbers of the WiFi board is looking at the board with the pins facing down. I did confirm that hooking up power backwards doesn't seem to damage anything before I figured this out
Alan
If you flip the WiFi board over, you can see the 3.3 v and Gnd markings stamped next to the corresponding pins.
They don't make it easy, or am I just too tired and in too much of a rush to read all 122 pages of the manual and have patience with this thing...
How on earth do I get the thing to connect to the network? All connected up to the USB, settings entered (all correct), scans fine and finds the network but connect just wont work... Any ideas?
Also, is it just me or is half the text missing from the app? It's as if the page needs scrolling down or resizing.
And, when I search and select the module I get a note: Parameters get error, could not support! Is that just me?
Lastly, has anyone had success using Windows 8? The USB gets installed but cannot start (code 10), the manual says this indicates a counterfeit unit although that's total BS, works fine on Windows 7.
First impressions on a quick 15 minute look at this and I'm not at all impressed by any aspect of it. I'm not surprised it raises so many questions.
Yes, I get that parameter error. After entering all of your network settings, click the Modify button and it will update the board and when it reboots, it will be on the network. You can then connect via web browser to port 80 (user name admin, password 000000) and the interface is better than the crappy software. I thought the usability issues were from being on a Netbook with limited screen real estate.
There are some warnings on the site you download the USB drivers about Win 8, but I ignored them, so not sure if there is something to see there or not.
Alan
@elfege Can you post what you determined are the correct HW virtual port settings? Never mind. I re-read the whole thread and see that you already did that.
Alan
I shouldn't mess with electronics when I am short on sleep. In all my messing around, I hooked the WiFi board up wrong one too many times, and now it is fried.
Off to order a replacement.
I am thinking about trying the one that @elfege found on Amazon and @Robot-doc said he was ordering. @Robot-Doc, did you receive it yet? Any success? I can't tell from the Amazon description if it even does TTL or only RS-232 and I can't find a manual for it.
Alan
@thetechguru, I ordered the WiFi module using Amazon.com on 4/1 and it shows possible delivery on 4/25. It took 10 days to change status from Ordered to Shipped.
Maybe I'll wait and see how you do with that before ordering a replacement for the board I just cooked. I found a (really bad) manual for it here about 10 minutes ago. Didn't answer the question about TTL, although searching Google for TTL Wifi Module finds a bunch of hits for the same device from different sellers.
Sparkfun also has one, although even more expensive, it claims to boot really fast and be ultra-low power, which given the 300ma draw on the Elechouse board could be a good thing.
Alan