jimmie
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Post by jimmie on Jul 16, 2019 10:46:20 GMT
I was really happy to find out about the ShieldBuddy. It sounded perfect for my project which will also require an Ethernet shield. After the board arrived, I tested two Ethernet shields (W5100 and W5500) with an Arduino Mega. Both shields worked and were able to get an IP.
However, BOTH shields are not working on the ShieldBuddy! The SB fails to get an IP (all leds on the two shields are on). Also, the SD card examples from the ShieldBuddy do not work as the SB does not recognize the SD hardware. I am sure is not a power issue as the SB is powered by an external 9V power supply.
I have written to Aurex but have not heard back. I have found their technical support to be regrettably rather poor.
Before returning the board , I would appreciate the community's input on how to test if the board came with a defective SPI bus which (in my limited knowledge) is the remaining reason explaining the problem?
Also, can the community share with me what specific model/brand of an Ethernet Shield they successfully used with the SB?
Thanks in advance for the community's help.
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Post by Admin on Jul 16, 2019 22:22:43 GMT
We have used the W5100 genuine Arduino Ethernet shield and the W5500 Ethernet2 shield. The example sketches were written for these shields.
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jimmie
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Post by jimmie on Jul 16, 2019 23:08:25 GMT
Thank you very much for responding to this question and also my other questions, I appreciate it.
I will order the W5500 Ethernet2 shield and hope that it will work.
Is there any other way to test the correct functioning of the SPI bus or any other issue that may be causing this problem?
Thanks again for your time.
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jimmie
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Post by jimmie on Jul 17, 2019 1:24:17 GMT
I found the problem and it is now working so the SPI bus is good!
I looked at the Ethernet library in the Arduino library manager. Version 2.0.0 was installed.
I downgraded the library to version 1.1.2 and both the WebServer and the NTP examples worked. So the problem is somewhere on the ShieldBuddy. Is there a bug forum?
The SD card example is also not working but that is a problem for another day.
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Post by Admin on Jul 17, 2019 7:01:40 GMT
We will check the ShieldBuddy with the latest Ethernet libraries in case something has changed.
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jimmie
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Post by jimmie on Jul 17, 2019 9:25:26 GMT
Thank you. If it all possible, please check SD library as I am also not getting SD examples to work.
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