Wireless RF Communication using nRF24L01 Module

Submitted by Steve on Sat, 06/13/2020 - 20:27

hi,

in your description of connecting Raspery pi with Arduino Uno you connect in the picture CSN Pin of nRF24 module to GPIO Pin 8 of Raspberry and CE Pin of nRF24 module to Pin GPIO Pin 25 of Raspberry pi. But in the Python code of Raspberry pi you change this to:

your code:

Begin the radio using GPIO08 as CE and GPIO25 as CSN pins.

radio.begin(0, 25)  

I cannot establish comunication between Rasp pi and Arduino even if I change these 2 pins.
Can you please explain this problem.

Circuit-Diagram-for-Interfacing-nRF24L01-with-Raspberry-Pi.png

hi,

I solved the problem - the picture is ok, the only bug was that in your description you say:

radio.begin(0, 25) # start the radio and set the ce,csn pin ce= GPIO08, csn= GPIO25

This is not true. CSN is on GPIO08 and CE is on GPIO 25
 

I found two other problems why it did not work.
I have an Rasperry pi 4 and by default SPI master driver is disabled by default on Raspberry Pi OS.

To enable:

ensure the line dtparam=spi=on isn't commented out in /boot/config.txt, and reboot. If the SPI driver was loaded, you should see the device /dev/spidev0.0.
https://circuitdigest.com/microcontroller-projects/wireless-rf-communication-between-arduino-and-raspberry-pi-using-nrf24l01

and the second problem was that CRC length was disabled:

to enable:

The problem is that I use Python to access the bus and it is not evident how, when and where I should set the speed of the SPI bus.
EDIT: I found it: In lib_nrf24.py in function:

def begin(self, csn_pin ... after self.spidev.open add:
self.spidev.max_speed_hz = 4000000
(in my case 5 MHz did not work)

found here: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/71730/possible-spi-issues-around-nrf24-operations-post-rpi-system-update

Now it works fine - thanks a lot

 

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