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mc-Module / Difficult Connecting Modules to GW after Installing Latest Firmware
« on: January 08, 2017, 09:22:34 pm »
Before updating my 120 modules and mc-GW to the latest firmware I was able to consistently connect the modules to the gateway for programming. Now, after upgrading it seems much greater problems trying to get the modules to connect which is very time consuming and frustrating.

Seems like some modules the only way I can connect to the GW is to click on "Connect Device" and then immeadate ly click "Abort" and repeat that several dozen times until it finally connects.

Has anyone else experienced this same behavior? 

One thing I want to mention is that I have been experimenting with external sensors on these modules and have been soldering components onto them. Althrough not pretty, the solder job look to be functional. Could this be the cause for the connection issues?

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MQTT / Beacons & MQTT
« on: December 02, 2016, 11:06:03 pm »
I’m still a bit confused about beacons.

By default the 120 will send a beacon every 10 seconds in low power mode correct? So if the gateway is programmed for MQTT will it automatically send the beacon to the MQTT server every 10 seconds as well or do you have to program the 120 to send the beacon manually using the Lplan.SendBeacon()command?

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mc-Platform General / Beacon Question
« on: November 28, 2016, 07:55:19 pm »
As per the Beaconing white paper, when sending beacons over MQTT, the topic defaults to  “mcThings/beacon/{GatewayUID}/{DeviceUID}”. Is this correct? We do not need to set the topic as we do when we use Lplan.Publish?

If so, could I then subscribe to “mcThings/beacon” and get beacons from all GW and modules?

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mc-Module / Cannot change the connection to another device in Run or Stopped mode?
« on: November 26, 2016, 01:54:43 pm »
When testing the reed switch on the mc-mod120, I keep getting a pop window with the following error when I move the magnet away from the mod120.

            "Cannot change the connection to another device in Run or Stopped mode."

mc-studio seems to freeze at this point and when I click on the red button to stop the debugger I get this  error...

            "Stop debugging Failed. This popup window is from System.Windows.Forms.

I have to end mc-studio via task manager and restart mc-studio. Attached is a screen shot of the error with the code I'm running.

Any suggestions what I'm doing wrong?




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mc-Dongle / Erase Failed!!!
« on: November 25, 2016, 09:44:08 pm »
Anyone know why I keep getting this error window popping up with "Erase Failed!!!" message when trying to remove a script?

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mc-Module / Battery Life
« on: November 25, 2016, 09:20:54 pm »
Does anyone know what the typical battery life you could expect from an mc120 with a script that is checking the temp, battery voltage and reed switch every 60 seconds and transmitting to MQTT server?

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mc-Demo205 / mc-Demo 205 Sample Code
« on: October 29, 2016, 10:29:11 pm »
Do you think it would be possible to add some sample code to the mc-script guide showing how to send data over the Sigfox network? And, code samples demonstrating any other features the 205 offers that may not be included on the 120 modules.  ;D

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mc-Product General / Gateway Uid
« on: September 25, 2016, 01:54:03 pm »
Is there a function to get the gateway Uid like we do with device using Device.mcUID()?

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mc-Product General / Eagle CAD library for 310
« on: September 12, 2016, 12:03:50 am »
Does mc Things provide an eagle CAD library for the mc module310?

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mc-Studio / Problem converting floats to strings
« on: September 10, 2016, 01:25:53 am »
The test code below sets x as a float
                                 assigns the value 1057.01 to x
                                 converts x to a string
                                 adds the converted string (strTempf) to the payload
                                 publishes it via MQTT

The problem is that the payload is empty when it gets to the subscriber. If I change x to an integer it works fine. I see the string "1057.01" at the subscriber.

Is there a problem converting floats to string with the ToString() function?

Class TestFloat2String
    Shared Event GetTemp() RaiseEvent Every 1 Minutes
        Dim x As Float
        x = 1057.01
        strTempf = x.ToString()
        payload.Add(strTempf)
        Lplan.Publish("RoomTemp", payload)
    End Event
End Class

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mc-Things General Discussion / Repeater Product
« on: September 06, 2016, 10:56:28 am »
Just a product suggestion...

 LinkLabs, a company working in the LoRa space has a repeater product that can extend the range of their GW. The benefit of a repeater is that it only requires power (i.e. solar). No internet connection needed. Imagine if mc-Things had a repeater product that could be deployed in a neighborhoods, farm fields, small communities...etc extending mc-air as far out as necessary. This would be great in remote areas where no other lpwan exists.

Anyway, just a suggestion.

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mc-Studio / mc-Studio crashes on startup
« on: September 06, 2016, 10:05:23 am »
I just installed mc-Studio on a Windows 10 machine and get the following error on startup.

"ERROR in mcStudio supporting thread. System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object....
see attached for further details of the error.

So far I have only downloaded and installed mc-Studio. I have not yet connected to any devices. Only tried to start mc-Studio and is as far as I've got.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.




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