Introduction¶
CircuitPython RFM69 packet radio module. This supports basic RadioHead-compatible sending and receiving of packets with RFM69 series radios (433/915Mhz).
Note
This does NOT support advanced RadioHead features like guaranteed delivery–only ‘raw’ packets are currently supported.
Warning
This is NOT for LoRa radios!
Note
This is a ‘best effort’ at receiving data using pure Python code–there is not interrupt support so you might lose packets if they’re sent too quickly for the board to process them. You will have the most luck using this in simple low bandwidth scenarios like sending and receiving a 60 byte packet at a time–don’t try to receive many kilobytes of data at a time!
Dependencies¶
This driver depends on:
Please ensure all dependencies are available on the CircuitPython filesystem. This is easily achieved by downloading the Adafruit library and driver bundle.
Usage Example¶
See examples/rfm69_simpletest.py for a simple demo of the usage. Note: the default baudrate for the SPI is 5000000 (5MHz). The maximum setting is 10Mhz but transmission errors have been observed expecially when using breakout boards. For breakout boards or other configurations where the boards are separated, it may be necessary to reduce the baudrate for reliable data transmission. The baud rate may be specified as an keyword parameter when initializing the board. To set it to 1000000 use :
# Initialze RFM radio
rfm9x = adafruit_rfm9x.RFM9x(spi, CS, RESET, RADIO_FREQ_MHZ,baudrate=1000000)
Contributing¶
Contributions are welcome! Please read our Code of Conduct before contributing to help this project stay welcoming.
Building locally¶
To build this library locally you’ll need to install the circuitpython-build-tools package.
python3 -m venv .env
source .env/bin/activate
pip install circuitpython-build-tools
Once installed, make sure you are in the virtual environment:
source .env/bin/activate
Then run the build:
circuitpython-build-bundles --filename_prefix adafruit-circuitpython-rfm69 --library_location .
Sphinx documentation¶
Sphinx is used to build the documentation based on rST files and comments in the code. First, install dependencies (feel free to reuse the virtual environment from above):
python3 -m venv .env
source .env/bin/activate
pip install Sphinx sphinx-rtd-theme
Now, once you have the virtual environment activated:
cd docs
sphinx-build -E -W -b html . _build/html
This will output the documentation to docs/_build/html
. Open the index.html in your browser to
view them. It will also (due to -W) error out on any warning like Travis will. This is a good way to
locally verify it will pass.
Table of Contents¶
- Adafruit RFM69HCW Transceiver Radio Breakout - 868 or 915 MHz - RadioFruit
- Adafruit RFM69HCW Transceiver Radio Breakout - 433 MHz - RadioFruit
- Adafruit Feather M0 RFM69HCW Packet Radio - 868 or 915 MHz - RadioFruit
- Adafruit Feather M0 RFM69HCW Packet Radio - 433 MHz - RadioFruit
- Adafruit Radio FeatherWing - RFM69HCW 900MHz - RadioFruit
- Adafruit Radio FeatherWing - RFM69HCW 433MHz - RadioFruit