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by triberraar
Thu Oct 05, 2017 5:51 am
Forum: Freematics Products
Topic: Brownout when turning on wifi
Replies: 4
Views: 10480

Re: Brownout when turning on wifi

Hmm switching usb cable helped.
I read somewhere that a high resistance usb cable can have this effect. So i switched to one of my fast charge usb cables, they tend to be a bit better, was using a random usb cable and that one must have been of the very cheap kind.
Sorry for the false alarm.
by triberraar
Thu Oct 05, 2017 5:44 am
Forum: Freematics Products
Topic: Brownout when turning on wifi
Replies: 4
Views: 10480

Brownout when turning on wifi

I am trying to write my own control version but i am running into a problem when turning on the wifi. My code mostly looks like this: [code] void setupWIFI() { #ifdef USE_WIFI WiFi.begin(WIFI_SSID, WIFI_PASSWORD); Serial.print("Connecting to Wifi"); for(int attempt = 0; attempt < 5 &&a...
by triberraar
Thu Oct 05, 2017 2:37 am
Forum: Freematics Products
Topic: Deep sleep
Replies: 3
Views: 8550

Re: Deep sleep

alright, do you have any plans to add it?

Having loads of fun playing around with it anyways. Bit of a shame i have to go down to the car to test stuff (The simulator is a bit expensive for a fun project:()
by triberraar
Wed Oct 04, 2017 4:58 am
Forum: Freematics Products
Topic: Deep sleep
Replies: 3
Views: 8550

Deep sleep

I want to sleep the freematics and have it turn on with the car, so it doesn't drain the power. Is there any way to do this? I looked at the sleep code in the telelogger and that seems to be a for loop that lasts untill the sleep time has been reached. I was looking more for a deep sleep. I am also ...
by triberraar
Wed Oct 04, 2017 4:54 am
Forum: Freematics Products
Topic: GPS problems
Replies: 2
Views: 6161

Re: GPS problems

I thought it had good exposure, i put the receive part outside.
However when i went to test in the car and just have it behind the windshield, it got a connection. So it must work, maybe the building is blocking the signal :( .
by triberraar
Tue Oct 03, 2017 5:25 am
Forum: Freematics Products
Topic: GPS problems
Replies: 2
Views: 6161

GPS problems

Hej, I am using the freematics one+ but having troubles getting the gps to work. I plugged it in and uploaded the v5/datalogger code, but no gps data is logged. So i simplified the loop to delay(5000); one.logGpsData(); But the gpsGetData() seems to always return false. It does pring GPS OK when sta...