I am new to the Raspberry Pi platform and I have been trying to get my Pi to communicate with an NRF24L01 module. I have been at this for a few days and just cannot get it to work. Here is my info and what I have tried so far:
@raspberrypi:~ $ ./versioncheck.sh
- Original Installation
Raspberry Pi reference 2020-02-13
- Current OS
Distributor ID: Raspbian
Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release: 10
Codename: buster
- Kernel
4.19.97-v7l+
- Model
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.1
- Firmware
Feb 12 2020 12:36:21
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version c3c8dbdf147686fb0c3f32aece709d0653368810 (clean) (release) (start)
Filesystem created: Sun Mar 15 20:45:11 2020
I have followed a bunch of tutorials and none have worked for me, however I was closest with this one: Youtube Tutorial
My code is:
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
from lib_nrf24 import NRF24
import time
import spidev
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
pipes = [[0xE8, 0xE8, 0xF0, 0xF0, 0xE1], [0xF0, 0xF0, 0xF0, 0xF0, 0xE1]]
radio = NRF24(GPIO,spidev.spiDev())
radio.begin(0,17)
radio.setPayloadsize (32)
radio.setChannel (0x76)
radio.setDataRate (NRF24.BR_1MBPS)
radio.setPALevel (NRF24.PA_MIN)
radio.setAutoAck(True)
radio.enableDynamicPayloads()
radio.enableAckPayload()
radio.openReadingPipe(1, pipes[1])
radio.printDetails()
radio.startListening()
while True:
while not radio.available(0):
time.sleep(1/100)
recievedMessage = []
radio.read(receivedMessage, radio.getDynamicPayLoadSize())
print("Recieved: {}".format(recievedMessage))
print("Translating our received message into unicode characters...")
string = ""
for n in receivedMessage:
if (n >= 32 and n <= 126):
string =+ chr(n)
print("Our received message decodes to: {}".format (string))
When I run the code I get:
File "/home/pi/Desktop/NRF24L01/recieveArduino.py", line 11, in <module>
radio = NRF24(GPIO,spidev.spiDev())
AttributeError: module 'spidev' has no attribute 'spiDev'
I have tried the following:(I think the is everything)
sudo apt-get install python3-dev
174 wget https://github.com/Gadgetoid/py-spidev/archive/master.zip
175 unzip master.zip
176 ls
177 rm master.zip
178 cd py-spidev-master/
179 sudo python3 setup.py install
180 cd desktop
181 cd
182 cd desktop/
183 cd Desktop/
184 ls
185 mkdir NRF24L01
186 cd NRF24L01/
187 git clone https://github.com/BLavery/lib_nrf24
188 cd lib_nrf24/
189 ls
190 cp lib_nrf24.py ~/Desktop/NRF24L01/
194 cd
195 cd Desktop
196 git clone https://github.com/tmrh20/RF24
I tried updating:
sudo apt-get update
258 sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
259 sudo easy_install RPi.gpio
260 sudo apt-get install python-rpi.gpio python3-rpi.gpio
261 sudo reboot
262 history
263 sudo apt-get python-dev python3-dev gcc python3-setuptools python3-pip
264 sudo apt-get python3-dev gcc python3-setuptools python3-pip
265 sudo apt-get instal python-dev python3-dev gcc python3-setuptools python3-pip
266 sudo apt-get install python-dev python3-dev gcc python3-setuptools python3-pip
267 sudo pip3 install RPi.GPIO
And:
cd py-spydev
283 git clone https://github.com/Gadgetoid/py-spydev
284 sudo apt-get update
285 sude apt-get install python-dev python3-dev -y
286 sudo apt-get install python-dev python3-dev -y
287 history
288 wget https://github.com/Gadgetoid/py-spidev/archive/master.zip
289 ls
290 unzip master.zip
291 rm master.zip
292 cd py-spidev-master/
293 ls
294 sudo python setup.py install
295 sudo python3 setup.py install
I have referenced the following answers:
Read this if you use Python Spidev
Raspberry Pi won't recognize nRF24L01+
'SpiDev' object has no attribute 'GPIO'
Possible SPI issues around NRF24 operations post RPi system update?
Problem with SPI after updating to Stretch
Sorry about the long post but I am at a loss and hoped to give as much info as I can in order to get this module to work. Thank you all in advance.
NOTE: Yes SPI is enabled and I have verified proper hardware connections
