WF32 chipKit not staying connected to wifi

[vwone]

Hi all,

I am running into an issue with my new wf32 board. I am running labview home edition and I am connecting to the board for two or three minuets at a time and then the program looses connection to the board. When it looses the connection I am getting the 5001 error and then a 5003 when I try to reconnect.

I am using a ext 12volt 3 amp power supply with the latest firmware loaded on to the board. To reconnect, I have to let the board sit for a few minuets with no power and then I can reconnect for two - five minuets.

Also I am just using the example that is launched once the firmware is loaded. It just blinks the I/O pin 13 LED.

Has anyone else seen this or know what I could change?

Thanks!

[JColvin]

Hi vwone,

I'm sorry for not getting back to you earlier. Since you are using LabVIEW Home Edition and (presumably) LabVIEW MakerHub LINX to communicate to the WF32 I looked around on the MakerHub Forums to see what I could find. A common theme I ended up seeing was that LabVIEW MakerHub LINX was usually competing with a computer's USB connection to the WF32 so that could be a potential problem.

Otherwise my thought was that perhaps voltage regulator on the board was overheating from the external power supply, but after looking through the datasheet I do not think this is the case; you would see the board turning on and off fairly quickly and not need to keep the board powered off.

My last thought is that you are not getting a stable WiFi connection so the connection is patchy, but that's hard to debug (at least for me).

Either way, I would recommend posting further questions on the LabVIEW MakerHub Forums under the LINX section.

Let me know if you have any more questions.

Thanks,
JColvin