Received my two LoRa OLED transceivers today and I'm now working through the project at:
https://hackaday.io/project/26991-esp32-board-wifi-lora-32
My aim is to send messages between the two boards over a 1km line of sight.
So fired up the Adruino 1.8.8 IDE on my Windows 10 laptop and selected Sketch > Include Library > Manage Libraries and search for “Wifi_LoRa_32“. Selected the "Heltec ESP32 Dev-Boards" and installed it.
https://github.com/HelTecAutomation/Heltec_ESP32
After this I could Tools >
Downloaded ESP32-DrawLogo.ino to C:\Users\kilnageer\Documents\Arduino and loaded it.
But found that they transceiver test code in already so can test as soon as powered up! :)
https://randomnerdtutorials.com/installing-the-esp32-board-in-arduino-ide-windows-instructions/
Once "esp32" by Expessif Systems installed under Boards Manager
Wow! Built-in firmware works fine!
Just powered by laptop USB ports. Then moved one transceiver as far as the library (400m) still worked! That's from inside one building to inside another building across a town! So with a roof mounted antenna at home and the other transceiver at the allotment (1500m) it might still just work.
Successfully download WiFi_LoRa_32FactoryTest sketch and works the same as the shipped firmware. Happy days :)
Can park this up for now then.
https://hackaday.io/project/26991-esp32-board-wifi-lora-32
My aim is to send messages between the two boards over a 1km line of sight.
So fired up the Adruino 1.8.8 IDE on my Windows 10 laptop and selected Sketch > Include Library > Manage Libraries and search for “Wifi_LoRa_32“. Selected the "Heltec ESP32 Dev-Boards" and installed it.
https://github.com/HelTecAutomation/Heltec_ESP32
After this I could Tools >
Downloaded ESP32-DrawLogo.ino to C:\Users\kilnageer\Documents\Arduino and loaded it.
But found that they transceiver test code in already so can test as soon as powered up! :)
https://randomnerdtutorials.com/installing-the-esp32-board-in-arduino-ide-windows-instructions/
Once "esp32" by Expessif Systems installed under Boards Manager
Wow! Built-in firmware works fine!
Just powered by laptop USB ports. Then moved one transceiver as far as the library (400m) still worked! That's from inside one building to inside another building across a town! So with a roof mounted antenna at home and the other transceiver at the allotment (1500m) it might still just work.
Successfully download WiFi_LoRa_32FactoryTest sketch and works the same as the shipped firmware. Happy days :)
Can park this up for now then.
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