Hi everyone, I am currently writing my bachelor thesis in Denmark (but am from University of Freiburg) and am getting no help or support at all here and can't find the probelm in my code. I program a weather station for an indoor room with the enclosed code that worked just fine with the Arduino MKR1000. However if I use the same code the next day or a few hours later, it doesn't work anymore ... I always have coded exactly the same thing all over again and it only worked once, that is now the 5th time already .. does anyone have any idea where the problem could be? I send data over WiFi to a server called Blynk. The Sample code form the library still works but mine only ever once ... I tried restarting and installing everything new, changing computer, controllers and cables but nothing worked Thank you very much for any help! -Caroline
So you got it working multiple times but say that it works only once. What did you do to start over successfully? Did you replace the Arduino board by a new one? Looking at the schematics I can see that the USB interface is controlled by the main microcontroller (ATSAMW25H18), which is the one that executes your sketch. So a faulty sketch might block the USB interface. It might help to press the Reset button immediately before transferring the program. If that does not work, then try to hold the reset button while plugging in the USB cable. Continue to hold the reset button until the file transfer starts, so your own sketch does not get a chance to start and brick the USB interface. If that does both not help, then you may use the SWD interface J3 instead to transfer the program. But then you need a suitable programming adapter. Be sure to buy one that is supported by the Arduino IDE.
Looking into your source code I see a major issue: *.h files (in this case functions.h) should not contain executable code. Only the headers of function belong into *.h files. The executable code belongs into *.c files. But this is possibly not the reason of your current problem.
Thank you very much for all the help!! I tried everything in order you suggested and the reset button pressing the whole time when connecting and then immediately uploading the code worked. Seems like the code is blocking the USB port somehow, thank you so much!
Thanks for your replay. I'm happy that I could help you although I did never use that Board myself :-) Some of your libraries may contain blocking wait loops which may affect the USB port. In traditional Arduino boards, that is harmless. But since we have microcontrollers with internal USB and WiFi we need to be careful using loops. You are on the safe side when your loop() function runs a bit less than 1ms per call in worst case. If you find it difficult to avoid using delay() and wait loops in your own code, search for instructions about "finite state machines on microcontrollers".
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