I’ve been trying to connect my Arduino board to a wifi network for a while
I bought the EMW3162 wifi shield from Robot Shop but I can’t get it working
The “instruction file” from Robot Shop is empty so I followed the Waveshare instructions (waveshare.com/wiki/EMW3162_W … troduction)
I can’t even go to the point where “Now it implements the Transparent transmission between the UART and the Wi-Fi”
I think one problem is the connexion to the computer : I have the shield on the Arduino and the Arduino connected.
Could some one help me please ?
-I tried to connect the shield only
-I can see it as COM 8
Waveshare says “Open the Wi-Fi connection, and choose the connection of which prefix is MXCHIP.”
I do not understand how to make the MXCHIP network appear in the list. (I guess it is a special combination of boot and STATUS ?). Anyway I had the chance to see it once, but could not connect as it asks for user name/password…
You are never going to be able to program the Arduino with this shield attached to it. The shield requires use of the Arduino rx/tx pins the instant it is powered up. Simple solution for prototyping is to take the shield off of the Arduino, program the Arduino, and re-attach the shield. Having said that, that is about as far as I have gotten with getting this ‘shield’ to work with an Ardiuno. I have several of them here, and even both development boards, none of which has made the expense even remotely worth the effort. Support, examples, or any sort of concrete advice/guidance on how to successfully use it as an Arduino shield is completely non-existant. I have scoured the net on and off for the last 6 months and have not been able to find a single code example or project that wasn’t hacked in a significant manner, and none that I recall were straight Arduino based. Unless MXChip decides to commit significant resources to its Arduino/open source development, this thing is dead technology…
