nRF receiving wrong payload?

[njtrettel]

Hey there. I downloaded your library (and the RF24 library). So now I'm trying a simple send/receive example. I can send packets from the nRF and pick them up on my phone, but I can't get the reverse. I don't want to complicate things but here's a snippet:

Serial.print(btle.listen());
Serial.println(btle.buffer.pl_size);

for (int i = 0; i < btle.buffer.pl_size; i++) {
Serial.print(btle.buffer.payload[i], HEX);
Serial.print(" ");
}

I first tested this without advertising anything from my phone. When I don't call btle.listen() and just print out the buffer anyway, I get 0 for size and nothing for payload (as expected). So then I re-ran, calling listen() first, and I get 3 different payloads, repeated indefinitely... but nothing is advertising. Then I tried btle.buffer.payload[i] = 0 in my loop, to "reset it". It did not like that... but this time I only got 1 payload over and over again.

What am I doing wrong? I know it's happening within listen() because I correctly get all 0's when I do not call listen. I think it has something to do with the communication between this library and the nRF, or maybe the buffer is at the wrong address. Here is a line of output from the for loop:

75 31 11 48 96 77 F8 E3 46 E9 AB D0 9E 53 33 D8 BA 98 8 24 CB 3B FC 71 4B 1 0 F 1 9 A 0 0 0 20�(�ª�adv recv
That "adv recv" is coming from the "BTLE adv recv" output in the setup()...

[floe]

Is it possible that the packets sent from your phone are simply too large? If it's more than ~21 bytes of payload, then the internal buffer of the nRF24 will overflow and you will get garbage.

[njtrettel]

This was my original thought too, but this doesn't explain where the exact same garbage is coming from when there are no ADV packets in the air. Any help on this is really appreciated. I'm also going to try using a different nRF/breakout combo in case it might be broken.

[njtrettel]

Figured it out! Didn't realize our breakout took a 5V input not a 3.3V...

[floe]

So sending & receiving now both work? For reference, what phone are you using?

[njtrettel]

Yes sending and receiving both work fine. I'm using a Samsung Note 5.
Running Android 6.0.1. I use the nRF Connect app. By the way is this
library finished? There are a few things that I might add to the library
and if they work out I would be happy to push them.

On Sep 21, 2016 3:18 AM, "Florian Echtler" [email protected] wrote:

So sending & receiving now both work? For reference, what phone are you
using?

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[floe]

Great to hear, thanks! I haven't been using the library myself for a while (as the nRF52 series are so incredibly cheap), but I'd be happy to take pull requests.

[njtrettel]

Alright cool. I have a lot of ideas but not sure if most of them are
possible, but I will definitely push the stuff that works.

On Sep 21, 2016 9:25 AM, "Florian Echtler" [email protected] wrote:

Great to hear, thanks! I haven't been using the library myself for a while
(as the nRF52 series are so incredibly cheap), but I'd be happy to take
pull requests.

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Looking forward to it. BTW, what Arduino did you use?

[njtrettel]

I'm using an Uno. With an ATMEGA328

On Sep 22, 2016 4:48 AM, "Florian Echtler" [email protected] wrote:

Looking forward to it. BTW, what Arduino did you use?

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