Shield vrs 8 (2022)

Shield version 8 has 4 jumpers J1 to J4 for configuring connection to the apc220 radio and thebg openlog.

• In the following north means jumper is close to the apc220 radio and south means close to the edge of the shield.

• The description is with the shield on an UNO. It can also be used on a MEGA - but with slighty different pins numbers.

J2 APC220 radio RX pin

The APC220 radio RX pin is used for sending bytes to the radio for transmision.

J2

                                  D5     D4     D5     D7

                                apcRX  apcTX  apcRX  apcSET

                                ardTX  ardRX  ardTX

   IMU                            4      3     2        1
--------------------------------------------------------------------------


Uno Serial TX to ap radio RX:   Jumper J2 on ardTx<->apcRX

Uno Serial RX to ap radio TX:   Jumper J3 on ardRx<->apcTX

Uno Serial TX to openlog  RX:   Jumper J4 on ardTx<->apcRX


----

softserial   with RX D4 and TX T5,



Softserial  TX to ap

Pin setting

The pins are used for roouting radio, openlog etc the right way

• North: jumper closest to radio

• South: jumper away from radio - closet to edge of board

• J1 hos only north

All HW serial on Arduino

• J2 south connect Arduino hardware TX(Serial.print) to APC220 radio RX pins , which means all which is written to the HW serial po is transmitted.

• J3 south connect APC220 TX to Arduino hardware RX so all data received by radio is routed to hw RX on Arduino

• J4 south connect Arduino hardware TX to openlog RX so all written to Arduino serial port is saved on SDcard.

NB remember to configure communication speed (baudrate Serial.begin(xxx)) on all serial ports to be the same

Arduino SW serial to apc220 and Arduino HW serial to openlog

• J2 north connect connect Arduino SW TX serial (on D5) to APC220 RX so Arduino SW serial with TX on D5 is used for transmit by radio

• J4 south connect Arduino HW TX to openlog RX. So we can have higher speed on HW TX than SW TX, which means we can store more info on sdcard

Same as above plus APC220 config pin to D7

So by apc220cfg.h you can reprogram radio in situ

J3 is for connecting apc220 tx to either Arduino HW rx (D0) or Arduino SW RX(D6)

SW Serial port - code

#include <SoftWareSerial.h>

SoftwareSerial soft01(5,6);  // RX, TX


for config you need

#include <apc220cfg.h>

char x[35];
int res;


apc220cfg soft01cfg(&soft01, 7); // pin7 for enabling
...
serialcfg.wrCfg("412000 2 9 3 0");
delay(100);

res = soft01cfg.rdCfg(x);

if (res == 0) {
		Serial.println(x);
}
else {
		Serial.print("no radio found");
		Serial.println(res);
}

for history only

Pins on shield vrs 6

So for logging on SD card AND transmit by radio Jumper 2 and 4 is needed

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