Hi Everyone, I am a real newbie to electronics… I hope this friendly crowd will excuse me :smile: I received last week the Kickstarter Electron + Asset tracker kit… and I am having troubles putting all together. I managed successfully to register the Electron on the 3G GSM network and get it on l…

Thank you both, I think I got it right now :slight_smile: GG [image]

Hi. Not sure if replying is the correct etiquette to continue on this same topic, but with my own questions(?) I have got to the same point as giangui in his photo above. I am also a newcomer to the electron. My question is whether the shield is powered up via the power supply of the electron? I…

You can find schematics here https://github.com/spark/shields/tree/master/electron-shields And since the intended use of that shield is off-grid the Electron LiPo should suffice to power the device and the shield (unless you put very power hungry things on the proto area :wink: ) And yes, you cou…

I tried installing the motion-tracker example but my device crashes and goes into safe mode within about 3 seconds of flashing the build over. Any suggestions on where to start debugging?

Thanks for the reply, I think I got it working. In the mean time I started looking into this related project but was unable to install it. Perhaps either of these projects will help someone else in the future who is getting started. [image] benagricola/tracker Particle Electron GPS / GSM …

I was able to get the asset tracker up and running. It was reporting out its location every 20 minutes. I wasn’t doing anything to save battery life. So I’m assuming GPS and cell hardware were just on all the time. I’m still learning what kind of life span to expect out of this thing. It died a…

You probably want to do some research on sleep modes: [image] Choosing an Electron sleep mode Tutorials There are several sleep modes available on the Electron, and choosing the correct one can make a large difference in the amount of battery usage, data, and time to conn…

If you put the Electron in SLEEP_MODE_DEEP with cellular off and only have the LIS3DH accelerometer in wake-on-move mode I think you should be able to go 4 weeks or so with the 1800 mAh LiPo battery.

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rickkas7 October 14, 2016, 9:05pm 11

You are mostly likely getting safe mode (blinking magenta) because you built for a system firmware version later than what you have on your Electron. If you're using Particle Dev (Atom IDE), you need system firmware 0.5.3 on your Electron. If you're using Particle Build (Web IDE) you may need to adjust the version popup menu. It's explained here:

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