Lora Shield arduino Tutorial

miliohm
26 Januari 2020 14:02

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We will practice how to use LORA shield with arduino UNO. You’ll need two arduinos, and two LORA shield. And don’t forget the USB cable.

Attach the shield to the arduino and you ready to program the arduino.

You have to upload every sketch for every arduino. There will be a client and a server. The client we use to send data, and the server will receive the data then gives reply.

In this tutorial we will use RadioHead library for LORA. you can download the library here.

Before we start the arduino program, we have to edit the frequency in library according to our LORA. In this case I use the 433Mhz. So I will open the Radiohead library and find file named RH_RF95.cpp. Find and Edit the setFrequency function to 433.0

// An innocuous ISM frequency, same as RF22's
    setFrequency(433.0);

After edit, save the file. and you are ready to open the arduino IDE.

This is the code for the client :

#include <SPI.h>
#include <RH_RF95.h>

// Singleton instance of the radio driver
RH_RF95 rf95;
//RH_RF95 rf95(5, 2); // Rocket Scream Mini Ultra Pro with the RFM95W
//RH_RF95 rf95(8, 3); // Adafruit Feather M0 with RFM95

// Need this on Arduino Zero with SerialUSB port (eg RocketScream Mini Ultra Pro)
//#define Serial SerialUSB

void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(9600);
  while (!Serial) ; // Wait for serial port to be available
  if (!rf95.init())
    Serial.println("init failed");
  // Defaults after init are 434.0MHz, 13dBm, Bw = 125 kHz, Cr = 4/5, Sf = 128chips/symbol, CRC on
  //  driver.setTxPower(14, true);
}

void loop()
{
  Serial.println("Sending to rf95_server");
  // Send a message to rf95_server
  uint8_t data[] = "Hello I'm from lora!";
  rf95.send(data, sizeof(data));

  rf95.waitPacketSent();
  // Now wait for a reply
  uint8_t buf[RH_RF95_MAX_MESSAGE_LEN];
  uint8_t len = sizeof(buf);

  if (rf95.waitAvailableTimeout(3000))
  {
    // Should be a reply message for us now
    if (rf95.recv(buf, &len))
    {
      Serial.print("got reply: ");
      Serial.println((char*)buf);
    }
    else
    {
      Serial.println("recv failed");
    }
  }
  else
  {
    Serial.println("No reply, is rf95_server running?");
  }
  delay(400);
}

And this is for the server (another arduino) :

#include <SPI.h>
#include <RH_RF95.h>

// Singleton instance of the radio driver
RH_RF95 rf95;
//RH_RF95 rf95(5, 2); // Rocket Scream Mini Ultra Pro with the RFM95W
//RH_RF95 rf95(8, 3); // Adafruit Feather M0 with RFM95 

// Need this on Arduino Zero with SerialUSB port (eg RocketScream Mini Ultra Pro)
//#define Serial SerialUSB

int led = 9;

void setup() 
{
  // Rocket Scream Mini Ultra Pro with the RFM95W only:
  // Ensure serial flash is not interfering with radio communication on SPI bus
//  pinMode(4, OUTPUT);
//  digitalWrite(4, HIGH);

  pinMode(led, OUTPUT);     
  Serial.begin(9600);
  while (!Serial) ; // Wait for serial port to be available
  if (!rf95.init())
    Serial.println("init failed");  
  // Defaults after init are 434.0MHz, 13dBm, Bw = 125 kHz, Cr = 4/5, Sf = 128chips/symbol, CRC on

  // The default transmitter power is 13dBm, using PA_BOOST.
  // If you are using RFM95/96/97/98 modules which uses the PA_BOOST transmitter pin, then 
  // you can set transmitter powers from 5 to 23 dBm:
//  driver.setTxPower(23, false);
  // If you are using Modtronix inAir4 or inAir9,or any other module which uses the
  // transmitter RFO pins and not the PA_BOOST pins
  // then you can configure the power transmitter power for -1 to 14 dBm and with useRFO true. 
  // Failure to do that will result in extremely low transmit powers.
//  driver.setTxPower(14, true);
}

void loop()
{
  if (rf95.available())
  {
    // Should be a message for us now   
    uint8_t buf[RH_RF95_MAX_MESSAGE_LEN];
    uint8_t len = sizeof(buf);
    if (rf95.recv(buf, &len))
    {
      digitalWrite(led, HIGH);
//      RH_RF95::printBuffer("request: ", buf, len);
      Serial.print("got request: ");
      Serial.println((char*)buf);
//      Serial.print("RSSI: ");
//      Serial.println(rf95.lastRssi(), DEC);
      
      // Send a reply
      uint8_t data[] = "And hello back to you";
      rf95.send(data, sizeof(data));
      rf95.waitPacketSent();
      Serial.println("Sent a reply");
       digitalWrite(led, LOW);
    }
    else
    {
      Serial.println("recv failed");
    }
  }
}

And if you want to send integer sensor data you can edit the data and use the code below :

#include <SPI.h>
#include <RH_RF95.h>

// Singleton instance of the radio driver
RH_RF95 rf95;
//RH_RF95 rf95(5, 2); // Rocket Scream Mini Ultra Pro with the RFM95W
//RH_RF95 rf95(8, 3); // Adafruit Feather M0 with RFM95

// Need this on Arduino Zero with SerialUSB port (eg RocketScream Mini Ultra Pro)
//#define Serial SerialUSB

void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(9600);
  while (!Serial) ; // Wait for serial port to be available
  if (!rf95.init())
    Serial.println("init failed");
  // Defaults after init are 434.0MHz, 13dBm, Bw = 125 kHz, Cr = 4/5, Sf = 128chips/symbol, CRC on
  //  driver.setTxPower(14, true);
}

void loop()
{
  Serial.println("Sending to rf95_server");
  // Send a message to rf95_server
  //We change the data we want to send with sensor_value
  int sensor_value = analogRead(A0);
  Serial.println("Sensor Value : "+(String)sensor_value);
  char data[3];
  itoa(sensor_value, data, 10);
  rf95.send(data, sizeof(data));

  rf95.waitPacketSent();
  // Now wait for a reply
  uint8_t buf[RH_RF95_MAX_MESSAGE_LEN];
  uint8_t len = sizeof(buf);

  if (rf95.waitAvailableTimeout(3000))
  {
    // Should be a reply message for us now
    if (rf95.recv(buf, &len))
    {
      Serial.print("got reply: ");
      Serial.println((char*)buf);
    }
    else
    {
      Serial.println("recv failed");
    }
  }
  else
  {
    Serial.println("No reply, is rf95_server running?");
  }
  delay(400);
}

And if you want to watch the complete tutorial, you can watch the video below :