Can't get test.py to work about dragino

[MelBadura]

I just installed Raspian new and enabled SPI again and now it's working fine.
Thank you very much for your help.

[pjb304]

Hi Mel,

That's not an error I've seen before. From where it appears in the code it's before it attempts to do anything with the credentials given in the dragino.ini file. I suspect the problem is that the code is failing to speak to the loRa module, but the error it's given is not particularly helpful.

Have you enabled SPI on the pi and added the extra overlay file needed for the extra CS pins?

Phil

[MelBadura]

Hi Phil,

yes I've done that. I also know that LoRa works on that raspi with the LMIC library. I justed wanted something in python.

[pjb304]

Curious,

I'm afraid my next step for debugging would be to attach a logic analyser and check that the data flowing back and forth matches what I'd expect. To me it looks like the op_mode_bkup = self.get_mode() line (834 LoRa.py) is giving an invalid response, which then causes grief when the python tries to send the value back to the LoRa device.

[BNNorman]

This message:-

sys.stderr.write("Mode <- %s\n" % MODE.lookup[mode])
KeyError: 0

Tells me that the value of mode is zero and that it is not a value currently in the list of modes (key error)

If you look at dragino/SX127x/LoRa.py line 837 the rx_chain_calibration() method uses get_mode() to save a copy of the current mode which is then used on line 837 and throws an error there because get_mode() returned zero. Now, get_mode() uses SPI to read a transciever register. So as pjb304 suggested, your SPI isn't working. Well, not returning a value.

Do any LEDs on the Dragino HAT light up? If not the power is missing.
Try reseating the Dragino HAT. You may have a bad connection on the SPI bus pins.

I must say that my HAT is alive and well and never suffered this problem. I'm also using a Pi4.

Note: The dragino code , as it stands, does not support downlinks (if you are using it with TTN). I have modified my dragino.py to pass downlink messages into my code and it works just fine. If you want to know how to do that just ask, once you've gotten test.py working.

[MelBadura]

Thanks for your answers,
The LED is on, I will try to reset the Dragino HAT and check the SPI aswell.