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mc-Platform General / Re: Mobile interface
« on: June 29, 2016, 11:53:45 am »
Oops. In my previous post I meant mcModule and not mcDongle. Brain fart on my part!

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mc-Platform General / Re: Mobile interface
« on: June 29, 2016, 11:45:47 am »
I have a question regarding using the mcDongle inside a freezer. Will the RF signal reach through the metal walls? Will an external temp sensor with the mcDongle located outside the freezer be required? This would give you the option to use any xx2032 battery and you could monitor the temp difference between the inside of the freezer and the room the freezer is in.

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mc-Gateway / Re: Gateway Host FW question
« on: June 13, 2016, 03:42:48 pm »
I've been down this road, and like you, I tried a bunch of old sticks. Age isn't important, how much current the stick tells the OS it needs is what is important. I had some sticks that only drew 83mA but they told the OS they needed 200mA. And they didn't work. I had to check each stick using Windows Device Manager. I had to poke through the USB section looking at the hubs and gateways to see which one was driving my stick (my PC had 2). Go to the Power tab to see how much power is being asked by the devices. I would look at the screen as I plugged in the stick to see if something was added to the list. I finally found one that listed less than 100mA. Voila! That one stick worked. You can tell when the green LED stays lit for over 4 seconds as the firmware is downloaded and installed.

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I checked my versions and I found that both were flashed with the latest firmware. I must have had a brain fart.

I downloaded mcStudio 891. When you check the version using About, it shows 890.

I connected to my gateway. I can now see my modules. Woohoo!

I tried to change the Temperature program to change the red LED based on TempF. I used Save As. That doesn't work very well. Saving a project apparently creates three files. Save As only saves one. When you close studio and try to restart the program it won't run. I tried Save As and Save All before I closed studio.

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I upgraded two mcModules (all I had batteries for at the time) and the gateway. The version returned on the modules after upgrading was 0.6-355 and not 0.7-356 as I expected. Did the version in the new code get changed to the proper version?

At any rate, I am now able to communicate with at least one of my modules. mcStudio only saw one of the two upgraded modules. Not sure why it didn't see the second module.

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