Board

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Software

RF to Serial Gateway

The node connected through serial port will report messages in text format

Local Events

Upon startup such message is sent

nodeid:75;channel:10;reset:1

2. Listening

Upon activation of the uicr config is_listening the node starts acting as a gatewy that will report messages through serial in text mode

rssi:-50;id:73;ctrl:0x81;src:73;alive:68;tx_power:0

3. commands requests and responses

It is possible to reconfigure the Node on runtime and manage manage a mesh network by sending messages

cmd:0x0102
cmd:0x<command id><arguments>

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Command examples

Set channel 10/0x0A

cmd:0x030A

get channel

cmd:0x04

Set Tx Power to -4dBm/0xFC

cmd:0x05FC

Set UICR e.g. RF Channel @ CUSTOMER[1] to channel 10

cmd:0x0B010A

Send message, directed (not broadcast) with ttl = 2, ping(75/0x4B) from 73/0x49

msg:0x7201494B

Send message to execute on the RF target node 75/0x4B the command Set Tx Power to -4 dBm

msg:0x72EC494B05FC

Send message to execute on the RF target node 75/0x4B the command Set channel to 0x0A

msg:0x72EC494B030A

Send request to execute on the RF target node 75/0x4B the command Set channel to 0x0A The only difference to the previous example is that an intermediate ack for the request is not required before getting the response

msg:0x22EC494B030A

Switch between serial SERIAL and LOG over UART

run

make conf

then switch both flags :

nRF_Log/NRF_LOG_BACKEND_UART_ENABLED
Application/APP_SERIAL_ENABLED don't forget to save

Serial mode

NRF_SERIAL_MODE_IRQ flag is not used by the driver and has equivalent function as NRF_SERIAL_MODE_DMA
ser_send() must be used with a variable in memory as DMA cannot read from Code in Flash