I am trying to get hr sc04 ultrasonic working on the particle photon using the cloud ide. I didnt find the NewPing library in the community library. Is it possible to add that library???
http://playground.arduino.cc/Code/NewPing
Thanks
I am trying to get hr sc04 ultrasonic working on the particle photon using the cloud ide. I didnt find the NewPing library in the community library. Is it possible to add that library???
http://playground.arduino.cc/Code/NewPing
Thanks
I have create a github repository to do the port over to Particle.
However, i don’t have an estimate of when it will be completed. The initial smoke test says that it’s not compiling (yet)
I haven’t published the library but it seems like NewPingExample
works!
If you are familiar with Particle CLI, i can guide you on how to use it.
With the help of ScruffR I was able to get the NewPing library to work great.
See the thread below:
Let me know how it works out
Wow glad New Ping is becoming a community library.
but am I missing something???
Can you change it to " " instead ?
i was able to start using the sample code and it build fine.
Only thing the sensor is giving only 0cm. Tried 2 different ones. yikes
Powered with 5v and tried with 3v3. Tried it using 4pin and 3pin wirings. Didnt use any resistors though. I read pins are 5v tolerent
I remember having issues with the ultrasonic if it is a 5V version.
Which two pins are you using for trig
and echo
?
Be careful as not all pins are 5V tolerant: https://docs.particle.io/datasheets/photon-datasheet/#peripherals-and-gpio
I would recommend using D0 and D1 which are I2C pins and known to be 5V tolerant pins.
It might well be that the NewPing lib doesn’t fully function since I mainly focused on getting it to build first before going into the how does it work.
The TEENSYDUINO specifics might not fully apply, but I haven’t gone there yet.
The solution proposed in the linked thread above should work, though a bit slower.
@kennethlimcp Nice switched it to D0,D1 and 5v power and sensor seems to be working.
HR-SC04 is only work when the sound bounces of right back any other angles it will show 0 I believe.
I just ordered some of the newer time-of-flight modules from ST. hoping to try these new mini LIDARS with particle.
Hey Guys,
I’m trying to add to add the NewPing library to a project with no success. I must be missing something, but I couldn’t figure out what. Here is what happens:
A) The library inclusion is successful, it shows in the project code:
1 // This #include statement was automatically added by the Particle IDE.
2 #include <New_Ping.h>
B) Compilation results in the following “fatal error”:
testnewping.ino:2:22: New_Ping.h: No such file or directory
C) The RAW version is seen below the line herebelow
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Processing newping.ino
Checking library New_Ping...
Installing library New_Ping 1.8.0 to lib/New_Ping ...
Library New_Ping 1.8.0 installed.
Checking library SparkIntervalTimer...
Installing library SparkIntervalTimer 1.3.7 to lib/SparkIntervalTimer ...
Library SparkIntervalTimer 1.3.7 installed.
make -C ../modules/photon/user-part all
make[1]: Entering directory '/firmware/modules/photon/user-part'
make -C ../../../user
make[2]: Entering directory '/firmware/user'
Building cpp file: src/newping.cpp
Invoking: ARM GCC CPP Compiler
mkdir -p ../build/target/user/platform-6-msrc/
arm-none-eabi-gcc -DSTM32_DEVICE -DSTM32F2XX -DPLATFORM_THREADING=1 -DPLATFORM_ID=6 -DPLATFORM_NAME=photon -DUSBD_VID_SPARK=0x2B04 -DUSBD_PID_DFU=0xD006 -DUSBD_PID_CDC=0xC006 -DSPARK_PLATFORM -g3 -gdwarf-2 -Os -mcpu=cortex-m3 -mthumb -DINCLUDE_PLATFORM=1 -DPRODUCT_ID=6 -DPRODUCT_FIRMWARE_VERSION=65535 -DUSE_STDPERIPH_DRIVER -DDFU_BUILD_ENABLE -DSYSTEM_VERSION_STRING=0.7.0 -DRELEASE_BUILD -I./inc -I../wiring/inc -I../system/inc -I../services/inc -I../communication/src -I../hal/inc -I../hal/shared -I../hal/src/photon -I../hal/src/stm32f2xx -I../hal/src/stm32 -I../hal/src/photon/api -I../hal/src/photon/include -I../hal/src/photon/wiced/security/BESL/host/WICED/ -I../hal/src/photon/wiced/security/BESL/include -I../hal/src/photon/wiced/security/BESL -I../hal/src/photon/wiced/security/BESL/crypto -I../hal/src/photon/wiced/WWD/include/ -I../hal/src/photon/wiced/platform/include/ -I../hal/src/photon/wiced/platform/GCC/ -I../hal/src/photon/wiced/security/BESL/supplicant/ -I../hal/src/photon/libraries/crypto -I../platform/shared/inc -I../platform/MCU/STM32F2xx/STM32_USB_Host_Driver/inc -I../platform/MCU/STM32F2xx/STM32_StdPeriph_Driver/inc -I../platform/MCU/STM32F2xx/STM32_USB_OTG_Driver/inc -I../platform/MCU/STM32F2xx/STM32_USB_Device_Driver/inc -I../platform/MCU/STM32F2xx/SPARK_Firmware_Driver/inc -I../platform/MCU/shared/STM32/inc -I../platform/MCU/STM32F2xx/CMSIS/Include -I../platform/MCU/STM32F2xx/CMSIS/Device/ST/Include -I../dynalib/inc -Isrc -I./libraries -Ilib/SparkIntervalTimer/src -Ilib/New_Ping/src -I. -MD -MP -MF ../build/target/user/platform-6-msrc/newping.o.d -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -Wall -Wno-switch -Wno-error=deprecated-declarations -fmessage-length=0 -fno-strict-aliasing -DSPARK=1 -DPARTICLE=1 -Wundef -DSTART_DFU_FLASHER_SERIAL_SPEED=14400 -DSTART_YMODEM_FLASHER_SERIAL_SPEED=28800 -DBOOTLOADER_SDK_3_3_0_PARTICLE -DPARTICLE_DCT_COMPATIBILITY -DSPARK_PLATFORM_NET=BCM9WCDUSI09 -fno-builtin-malloc -fno-builtin-free -fno-builtin-realloc -DLOG_INCLUDE_SOURCE_INFO=1 -DPARTICLE_USER_MODULE -DUSER_FIRMWARE_IMAGE_SIZE=0x20000 -DUSER_FIRMWARE_IMAGE_LOCATION=0x80A0000 -DMODULAR_FIRMWARE=1 -DMODULE_VERSION=5 -DMODULE_FUNCTION=5 -DMODULE_INDEX=1 -DMODULE_DEPENDENCY=4,2,207 -DMODULE_DEPENDENCY2=0,0,0 -D_WINSOCK_H -D_GNU_SOURCE -DLOG_MODULE_CATEGORY="\"app\"" -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -fcheck-new -std=gnu++11 -c -o ../build/target/user/platform-6-msrc/newping.o src/newping.cpp
newping.ino:2:22: fatal error: New_Ping.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
../build/module.mk:267: recipe for target '../build/target/user/platform-6-msrc/newping.o' failed
make[2]: Leaving directory '/firmware/user'
make[2]: *** [../build/target/user/platform-6-msrc/newping.o] Error 1
../../../build/recurse.mk:11: recipe for target 'user' failed
make[1]: Leaving directory '/firmware/modules/photon/user-part'
make[1]: *** [user] Error 2
../build/recurse.mk:11: recipe for target 'modules/photon/user-part' failed
make: *** [modules/photon/user-part] Error 2
Common first question for issues like that: "What system version are you targeting with your build?"
It needs to be 0.5.3 or later
@ScruffR Thanks for your quick response!
System firmware target:
On the device: 0.7.0
The “On the device” version is only half of the equation.
What does the dropdown list say just above that.
I see, but looking at the library examples, the problem becomes obvious.
While the library is called New_Ping
the include actually needs to be #include <NewPing.h>
(which is bad style on the contributors side, I dare say )
Hence it’s always good to give the samples a go before starting own applications - at least to check whether the library works at all or not.
Thank you very much! I’d have never figured this out.
This might explain why this library has not been used more extensively.
Any plans on having this library work with Argon?
lib/SparkIntervalTimer/SparkIntervalTimer.h:37:4: #error “*** PARTICLE device not supported by this library. PLATFORM should be Core or Photon ***”
@stewsterl, the SparkIntervalTimer library is STM32 hardware dependent and as such, only works on Gen2 devices. If you search, I believe @rickkas7 had an example of using a Nordic hardware timer but you would need to adapt the code to work with this library.