Raspbian and LoRa ChisteraPi

[eddy33]

Hi all,

I'm using the LoRa Snootlab's ChisteraPi 1.2 hat with Raspberry Pi 3B board.

For testing, I'm using 2 RPi boards with ChisteraPi and a Lora example from https://github.com/Snootlab/lora_chisterapi

After waisted time, be carefull with your Raspbian version.

What I've tested is:
- OK with Raspbian 2017-09-07. Kernel version: 4.9.41-v7+.
- BAD with Raspbian 2017-11-29. Kernel version: 4.9.59-v7+ (You have an "Init failed" with the sender.cpp example)
- BAD with Raspbian 2018-03-13. Kernel version: 4.9.80-v7+
- BAD with Raspbian 2018-04-18. Kernel version: 4.14.34-v7+
- BAD with Raspbian 2018-06-27. Kernel version: 4.14.50-v7+

So the last Raspbian version working with ChisteraPi 1.2 is Raspbian 2017-09-07 (http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbi ... 017-09-08/). I have to put a couple of time to see why when I 'll have enough time for this

Cheers.

[eddy33]

Hi all,

After studying the source code for LoRa with the ChisteraPi board, I've found the problem.

For the LoRa stack, in file lib/radiohead/RH_RF95.cpp, after line 46, please add the call of the begin() method for RHLinuxSPI objet:

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#if (RH_PLATFORM == RH_PLATFORM_RPI)
    RHLinuxSPI::begin("/dev/spidev0.0");
#endif

Don't care about the "char *" warning at the compilation.
It works great after with the RPi 3B model and with the RPi 3B+ model too.

I've tested this (sender.cpp and receiver.cpp examples):
- OK with Raspbian 2017-09-07. Kernel version: 4.9.41-v7+.
- OK with Raspbian 2018-06-27. Kernel version: 4.14.50-v7+

Cheers.