What I want to do

setup a Dustduino per Matthew @Schoyer's instructions

My attempt and results

I had trouble with the RN-XV I couldn't get it working per @Schoyer's instructions

so I switched to WiFi configuration, as described in the manual. First I found which pin was actually GPIO9 (it ewas pin 8) through the sparkfun comments page on the device.

that got it to spit out a wifi network but I couldn't for the life of me telnet in as the manual suggested. No connection.

I also looked at a few other sets of instructions i found here

In the end, I just gave up on DHCP and figured I'd manually configure everything by serial.

@Schoyer's original instructions: - With no shield attached, load a bare minimum sketch to Arduino UNO

• Attach the RN-XV to the shield, and attach the shield to the UNO

• Switch serial select on the shield to "USB"

• Launch the Arduino IDE, and open serial monitor

• Select "no line ending" in the serial monitor

• Enter "$$$"

• RN-XV will respond with "CMD"

• Change serial monitor to "carriage return"

My commands: factory Reset

repeat:

• Select "no line ending" in the serial monitor

• Enter "$$$"

• RN-XV will respond with "CMD"

• Change serial monitor to "carriage return"

More commands:

set wlan join 1

set ip dhcp 0

set ip address 192.168.43.100

set ip netmask 255.255.255.0

set wlan ssid bananaslug

set wlan phrase oregonslimetrail

save

reboot

This got WiFi working, but since Xively isn't taking development memberships, I had nowhere to send the data....

so I just hooked it up as a serial device, as per @Schoyer's code

Here were the pinouts, from Shinyei sensor to arduino

Questions and next steps

Why I'm interested