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42$ for a shield (2$ for headers), I can buy 2x Arduino Pro’s for that.

Is it possible to use this with an SD card shield? I’m getting the impression they use mostly the same pins… Is there some other solution where I can add an SD card for storage and WiFi to the same Arduino?

Can it use as sniffer? Can it recive all the packets in the network?

Contacted support, but in the meantime…From the different placement of the UART pins on the MEGA 2560 from the Demuilenove, will I be prevented from using this shield? Thanks

Please update the link to the Experimental WiFly Arduino Library to the latest alpha 2 release. The currently linked library is the old version won’t work with the latest revision of the shield.

I was wondering why do you convert the uart from the wifly to SPI when the wifly has SPI built into it?

How can i use this wifly shield with
Arduino Mega 2560? Is it possible to use this with mega 2560?
I want to adquire a mega 2560 (if there´s stock soon xD) with this shield.

New to the Arduino and Netduino, just bought the WiFly shield but it comes with no pins. I’m sure this is a real newbie question, but what’s the normal way to solve this? I’m guessing put “pin blocks” (I think also referred to as extenders) through the top of the WiFly shield, and solder the bottoms?? Really don’t want to break this thing before I’ve even tried it!
Can anyone point me to connecting up the WiFly with a netduino?

anyone use this on the fez panda?

I am trying to get this to work on a Fez Panda. The lights dont light up when I connect it to the panda. They are fine with an arduino. Is there some type of power issue that I might need ot deal with?

Can I suggest for the next revision of this board that you add a row of solder pads on the inside of the existing through holes so we can solder wires from there to the proto area? I’m using this on a mobile-ish device and I don’t want loose wires in prototype headers to be yanked out while walking around.

I hope there will be some more (and easier) project tutorials.
I’m trying to make my iPhone talk directly to my arduino with WiFly shield using an OSC handler without using processing on my PC (goal: light up 3 LED’s with 3 buttons and 3 faders).
Anyone succeeded in creating a similar project?

this shield does not break out the hardware reset lines as stated in the description!

Any idea as to the lead time of this?

Could I create AP on Arduino using this WiFi shield? I want to have options to connect to internet directly or to host access point and connect to Arduino with smartphone/laptop.

I keep getting this “locking up” message as well. Feel like I’ve tried everything and can’t get this shield to work. Anybody have any sage advice?

What is the digital pin 7 used for? It wasn’t mentioned as being used by this shield in the description.

Ok, so it appears the digital pin 7 is just an external interrupt on the SC16IS750. I ended up having to cut the trace as my other shield uses digital pin 7. I would make one suggestions for the next rev of this board.
1. Make the D7 pin a solder jumper so folks can choose to use it or not.

The readme.txt file in the WiFly library says:
If the network you want to connect to has no passphrase you can use this form:
if (!WiFly.join(“ssid”)) {

 // Handle the failure  

}

After a number of hours of banging on this, I seem to have determined that it should say “you MUST use this form”. I was always unable to join an open network when making the WiFLy.join call with 2 args; I have been able to connect when I call it with only 1 arg (the ssid).
In addition, once I made a 2-arg call even once, it would never join again (even with a 1-arg call) until I had issued a “factory RESET” command.
I changed the code in the sample WiFly_WebClient program FROM:
WiFly.begin();
if (!WiFly.join(ssid, passphrase)) {

Serial.print("Association failed.");  
while (1) {  
  // Hang on failure.  
}  

TO:
int joined;
WiFly.begin();
// apparently, it’s necessary to omit the second (passphrase) argument, if joining an open network!
if (strcmp(passphrase, “”) == 0) {

joined = WiFly.join(ssid);  

}
else {

joined = WiFly.join(ssid, passphrase);  

}
if (!joined) {

Serial.print("Association failed.");  
while (1) {  
  // Hang on failure.  
}  

This has not been extensively tested yet, but appears to solve the problem.

I made a small robot with the WiFly.
Check my video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjR969Vp0Cw

I’m using this with a new Arduino UNO and can get into command mode with $$$ and enter commands and receive text back from the WiFly.
When I attempt to associate with my WPA-PSK protected NetGear WNDR3700v2 router I get AUTH-ERR even though every other device on my network can connect with the router just fine.
(and yes, I did set the SSID and PassPhrase)
It was mentioned elsewhere that the shield may need to be moved away from the Arduino because of a “bad ground on the Sparkfun Shields” before being able to connect. I’m not sure how much there is to that but can anyone else here offer up any suggestions on why I’m not able to connect?
Update 7/17/2011:
MY BAD! Turns out I had the wrong WLAN AUTH method set. Unit now connects extremely fast to the WNDR3700 (N600) router using AES encryption. Powered it up with a battery and walked two blocks down the street and still didn’t lose the connection. Awesome!

Many SPI based shields hardwire the /CS pin to Arduino D10, making it difficult to use different shields or even more than one in a stack. Could you make it easier to rewire /CS (and /INT, D7) to different pins? Maybe not a full up set of jumpers, but cutable/jumperable pads would be appreciated…

Guys, since I’m having issues with the latest firmware and the WiFly library alpha 2, I forked genetikayos’s alpha 2 library and added new functions and will have support for firmware versions 2.26 and above.
https://github.com/jaycollett/WiFly-Shield

Without the pinout hole on the breakout board (as provided on the WRL-10050) what’s the best way to connect the 3.3Vdc to the PIO9 to start up the Wifly in ad hoc mode?

My WiFly is working great except for one thing: As long as my Arduino (UNO) is powered via USB, the WiFly powers up fine. However, if I use a DC power adapter, only the UNO powers up.
I’ve checked the power pins at the WiFly under both situations with a voltmeter, and they read as follows:
Powered vía USB:
+5: 4.98
+3.3: 3.34
vin: 4.25
Powered via 9v 1000ma DC power supply:
+5: 4.3
+3.3: 3.14
vin: 8
I’ve also tried this with two different Arduinos with the same result. Is this normal? I’d really like to be able to power my device with something other than a USB cable.
Otherwise, everything is working great.
Update: Oddly enough, I can also run the whole thing off of a 9v battery connected to the vin and gnd pins of the WiFly, so I suppose to can add a power jack straight to those. Seems odd that it doesn’t work through the built-in jack of the Arduino, however.

All I want to do is send a udp stream which consists of 8 numbers. Ideally at around 30 times a second. Is that possible with this or must it just serve pages? Sorry if this is a dumb question, I’m not a network guy.

A few words of warning: The WiFly Shield is a 3V device. MANY Arduino boards are 5V devices. 5V Arduino boards are even listed as ‘related products’ for the 3V WiFly Shield. DO NOT PLUG A 3V WiFly SHIELD INTO A 5V MAIN BOARD UNLESS YOU HATE MONEY.
Last year I bought an “Arduino Main Board” and an “Arduino WiFly Shield.” I foolishly plugged them together and started programming — because of course they’re designed to work together, right? There goes $90 down the toilet! The 5V main board signals seem to have killed the NXP SC16IS750 SPI-UART bridge on the 3V WiFly Shield: the bridge does not respond to SPI commands.
I should have double checked the data sheets before plugging these ‘related products’ together. The boards should have been designed so that 5V and 3V devices could not be connected accidentally. The website should have overtly warned that the WiFly Shield is not compatible with most Arduino boards. Shoulda, shoulda, shoulda… Buyer beware!

Here’s an example use of the same module used by this shield ( I’m actually using the the RN-134 board, which is simply Roving Networks' board around the very same RN-131 module) to connect a vacuum tube to the Internet and display tweets:
https://trandi.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/vfd-clock-connects-to-the-internet/
Dan

The RN-131C Datasheet, page 5, says pin 22 (DMA-TX) should have a 100K pull down if ultra low sleep power is required. Page 9, item 8, clearly spells out that pin 22 must be pulled low with 100K to achieve 4uA in sleep mode.
There appears to be no way to do this as there is no access to the pin and the pcb does not track it out to a blind solder pad or anything.
In my battery powered device this low power mode is essential.
I looked at the Eagle board file, and with considerable risk I could try to route/mill/scratch a hole through the pcb to get to pin 22… The chance of damaging a $90 device is pretty high!
Have I missed something…???
Sparkfun – please comment…

Can someone confirm that this shield is NOT compatible with 5V Arduinos? I have trouble believing this. Even a 5V Arduino has a 3.3V header…

i erased my comment. love the shield…now if only there was an easy way to convert sketches written for the ethernet shield…

Just a quick update on the wireless water sensor project linked to above; I’ve solved what was (for me) an issue with reliability of the comms.

Implementing a combination of the Arduino watchdog and using a small relay to control power to the shield has made it rock solid and very tolerant of any network or remote server issues.

I’ve updated my original blog post with more detail and the code.

http://lifeboat.co.nz/the-finished-wireless-water-sensor/

Happy making!

Finally something i can buy that is not out of stock!

Finally something i can buy that is not out of stock!

are the tx and rx pins not accessable on the breakout board? is this because they are 3.3v and not 5v? it seems for me a lot cleaner to use simple serial instead of dealing with SPI.

i would have assumed that they would be connected correctly for wiring right into the D0 and D1 pins for RX and TX on the arduino. to me that would make for super simple sending of commands and receiving data, is that not how its setup?

I am connecting it to my fez domino. SPI seems to work as expected. The code for a serial port is much cleaner. however the diagram makes it look like they are only connected to the bridge, is that possible?

Hello there. I just got the Wi-Fly (RN-XV) and it is driving me bonkers!

I try open and mixed security on the AP and no matter what I keep getting AUTH-ERR when I try to join.

AP Side: – no mac address enforcing, WPAv1, b/g, channel 8 WiFLY side: firmware 2.30 SSID=TEST Chan=8 ExtAnt=0 Join=1 Auth=MIXED Mask=0x1fff Rate=3, 11 Mb Linkmon=5 Passphrase=LetMeIn1 TxPower=0

It’s hooked on a XBEE Explorer Regulated and connected via USB to the PC/Mac.

From Putty I join and I get this: Auto-Assoc TEST chan=8 mode=WPA1 SCAN OK Joining TEST now.. Disconn from TEST,AUTH-ERR

Any help is a great Christmas gift at this point!

Thanks – me

Is that the antenna connector there on the module? Which SparkFun antenna(s) are compatible with it?

Any chance of getting this shield with the RN-131G (for the industrial temperature range)? I’m using this in an outdoor enclosure where it gets below 0C in the winter often. So far it seems to work, but the RN-131G is actually rated for it (and the same price I think). I like the convenience of the shield and already wrote code to the SPI interface…kind of reluctant to re-write to the UART and deal with soldering the other part. (See www.poolremote.com for what I’m doing with it and the Arduino…controlling hot tub and pool equipment from an iPhone or iPad)

Is there any success track record using this with netduino or fez panda?

TIA!

So I just got this thing.. software is horrid.. Alpha 1, Alpha 2? OK… Stacked it on my UNO and hooked it up to win/mac serial programs but nothing I do/follow can get this thing into CMD mode. I’ve spent HOURS trying to do this.. So very disappointed!

I have just bought the WiFly shield and got it working (more or less) with my Arduino Uno using some of the software provided by Chris Taylor. Now I have two questions that I would be grateful for help with: 1) In the definitions of the addresses of the SC161S750 uart bridge, why are they left-shifted in the #define section e.g. #define LSR 0x05 ?

Here is my second question since my previous comment was cut short. Why doesn’t the newest Wifly library, WiFly-20101217-alpha-2 compile immediately “straight out of the box”? I tried to compile Wifly_WebServer.pde but get various errors such as ‘SpiUartDevice’ does not name a type.

I’ve been battling the entire weekend with the WiFly shield (Connected to a Arduino UNO). I know think I’ve exhausted all possible steps in debugging this issue. I have also tried this with all versions and some forks of the code and version 0022 and version 1.0 of the IDE.

After uploading and running SpiUartTerminal.pde or the HardwareFactoryReset.pde, the serial monitor just hangs after outputting “Waiting for input:” and doesn’t allow me to enter the command line application ($$$). I’ve tried unix screen, coolterm and the standard IDE serial monitor. I’ve also tested the pins to ensure everything is connected correctly (I finally soldered them to the header pins) and I’m sure it is.

I would really appreciate some help if possible. I’m now suspecting that it is in fact a hardware issue.