Ok wheww …After 6 months of dealing with China for that SL030 after the first one never shipped and the second one came broken in half i finally got my RFID reader SL030, my RFID ring, my Particle Photon connected to the internet and the necessary jumper wires etc etc and ready to do this project with your help obviously LOL
So i am trying to connect the SL030 to the Photon and i got a question about the wiring do we connect the 5v from the Photon to pin 2 on the SL030 or not i could not tell from the post above where you explain the wiring
Edit: I did not connect the 5v to pin 2 on the board …after reading on th SL030 operating voltage it does not accept the 5v and the Photon board does not even have a 5v out pin.
So i connected the rest of the pins, i hooked up the Photon to the internet and added to my account and i went to build.particle.io and i uploaded your code, complied and flashed it to the board.
However i do not see any input on the Console.particle.io other than device diagnostics every minute or so … am i supposed to see “Show me your tag” or “Unexpected results” etc etc or the tag number??
What data is the tag supposed to carry?/ I know i have written a decimal value on my tag i can see it on another app.
At the very beginning after i flashed the board when i was swiping the tag i could see the built in led blink but again nothing on the console, than after a few tries the led remained on and even after rebooting the board i could not get it anymore to blink.
I do not know if my wires are right or even the headers soldered right but i think i have done a good job with them
I am sorry this is my first 24 hours with partice.io so bear with me while i understand it better.
After reading this I imagine that the code you flashed is the one that I posted before, right?
If that so, those values aren’t being publish to Particle cloud, those are being logged to the serial port. You can use Arduino IDE to see those values. If you want to publish to particle you will need to use particle.publish() instead of Serial.println() https://docs.particle.io/reference/device-os/firmware/photon/#particle-publish-
Hey buddy thanks for writing me back and i hope you had a blast on your vacation.
Ok so yes i am using your code above…so how do i read the values on Arduino IDE ?? what port number do i use…or ip address?? I do have it installed and i have flashed a couple of Arduinos but still not very familiar with ??
So my goal is to have 5 rfid tags/(mine and wife’s are a couple of pretty cool rings that work with the SL030 board) one for each family member hard coded somehow in the sketch and that when one of those values is scanned the SmartThings will trigger through ifttt i guess and than open the door.
So how do we achieve the above
By the way my front door lock is not a Yale or a Schlage connected directly to SmartThigs it is however a RF remote controlled door lock that i have connected to a 5v relay and i control it through SmartThings using ST_anything and works like a charm.
While researching ways to “smartify” my lock i came across this https://electropeak.com/learn/smart-door-lock-w-wifi-login-page-by-arduino-esp8266/ …do you thing there is a way to use this RFID reader and particle photon and trigger the Arduino Uno or straight up the relay just like the above project but without the use of esp-01 … anyhow i lets focus on the first step as our original idea was and than maybe i can modify it on my own but lets first get it to work the way we originally or you originally did it
