I've had limited experience with these (because I used it on an Arduino=20
and their ready-made libraries), but I remember having an issue with=20
power.  IIRC they need up to 250mA (though for short bursts of time). =20
Adding a capacitor and later a higher-capacity DC-DC converter resolved=20
the issue.  May be something to consider.

Cheers,
-Neil.



On 7/10/2016 6:34 PM, Anthony Toft wrote:
> Ok folks, it's time to access the hive mind.
>
>  =20
>
> I have a personal project that uses multiple PICS's and is going to use t=
he
> NRF24L01 for its internal communication. The "master node" uses a PIC24 a=
nd
> handles communication from an ESP board and formulates a packet to send t=
o
> the slave nodes. I have the network socket working well enough to trigger
> the breakpoints I'd expect, as well as outputting debug data. The issue i=
s
> with sending the data through the NRF pipe.
>
>  =20
>
> I have a state machine that is driven by the SPI interrupt that sends the
> various initialization commands that I have found scattered all over the
> internet to the nrf chip. The state machine itself seems to work, as far =
as
> it progresses though the various states to the READY state. I have no clu=
e
> as to whether the NRF is getting the commands. I then provide the state
> machine a packet to send, and it does not appear to do anything. At the
> moment I am working without a configured receiver and I would have expect=
ed
> the NRF to have asserted the maximum retry interrupt at the very least, b=
ut
> this does not seem to happen.
>
>  =20
>
> I don't know how to even start debugging this and any clues would be most
> useful. I have been poking at it on and off for many months, and am even
> currently thinking of swapping this idea out for a set of ESP devices and
> talking directly to each slave node, although that would require some
> serious redesign work.
>
>  =20
>
> Again, any ideas/thoughts on how to even start would be super helpful
>
>  =20
>
> Thanks
>
>  =20
>
> Anthony
>
>  =20
>

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