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Ethernet stop responding

December 27, 2011
2:46 am

jamilm9

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Hi, I used the code shown in the tutorial with some small adaptions. These are shown here:

http://pastebin.com/xiGSRkQg

For some reason it will connect for 15 minutes to one hour and then it will stop connecting. This can be fixed by restarting the arduino by unplugging this. How can this be fixed? Thank you.

December 28, 2011
3:00 am

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Are you using Arduino 1.0 or Arduino 22 IDE? This would make a difference in how the Ethernet shield gets restarted. I recommend upgrading to Arduino 1.0 and using our code examples on GitHub.

https://github.com/other/ThingSpeak-Arduino-Examples/blob/master/Ethernet/Arduino_to_ThingSpeak.ino

You would only have to make a few tweaks to get this working in 1.0.

Let us know if you figuring anything out.

December 29, 2011
1:51 am

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I am using 0023. I found a solution to the problem (I think). It's been running for over 24 hours and still going strong. All I had to do was remove the MicroSD card that I had in the slot. For some reason this fixed it. I found this at http://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=17013

Is there any way to convert a float to string? When I convert from a long to a string it is rounded to the nearest whole number. Thanks for all the help.

December 29, 2011
10:52 am

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Wow, I am glad that you found that solution. I would have never thought of that. Glad it's working!

December 29, 2011
12:04 pm

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Same. It's strange how these things work. Can you offer any input on converting a float to string? Thanks.

December 29, 2011
9:36 pm

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I found a post on the Arduino forum:

#include<stdlib.h>
dtostrf(FLOAT,WIDTH, PRECISION,BUFFER);

http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1205038401

(At the bottom of the post, that may help...)

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