Timeline for Test Transmit Signal for nRF24L01 transreceiver
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| Apr 30, 2018 at 9:33 | answer | added | Kyra | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 23, 2017 at 16:22 | comment | added | JIm Dearden | Just be patient and wait for another nrf24l01 as a receiver and in future buy them in pairs, they're cheap enough. | |
| Jul 23, 2017 at 15:17 | comment | added | Chris Stratton | @Bimpelrekkie - you do not need a "spectrum analyzer" - you merely need a receiver. A spectrum analyzer is a very complex receiver which can receive on multiple frequencies to generate a picture, but the asker only needs something that can receive on the single frequency commanded by their software. Or they can use a diode "crystal radio" which receives on all frequencies. But with any receiver, the next question is interpreting the modulated data. | |
| Jul 23, 2017 at 15:15 | comment | added | Chris Stratton | Testing the actual transmissions will be hard, but one thing you can and definitely should do is read back enough registers from the chip to verify that it has power and that the SPI communication is fully working. If you rig up a diode power detector (essentially a crystal radio) and get its antenna very close, you may be able to detect that the module is transmitting when commanded to, but you probably won't be able to recover the GFSK data in the way you could recover a more primitive scheme like OOK. | |
| Jul 23, 2017 at 13:54 | comment | added | Bimpelrekkie | is there a way for me to test the nRF24L01 transmitter, without having a receiver circuit in place? I do not see any other way you could test the transmitter. You need the corresponding type of receiver, other devices also working in the 2.4 GHz band (Bluetooth, WiFi) will just ignore the signal. The only other way to test is with a spectrum analyzer and those working at 2.5 GHz are in the pricerange of if you have to ask what it costs, you cannot afford one. | |
| Jul 23, 2017 at 13:39 | comment | added | Transistor | Welcome to EE.SE, marc. Add a link to the datasheet for each device (into your question). We might not know all the details from memory - or might not even know what they are. | |
| Jul 23, 2017 at 13:38 | history | edited | Transistor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 23, 2017 at 13:17 | history | asked | marc Katz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |