μWaveCommander

uWave underwater acoustic modems demo application

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How to use μWaveCommander

1. Connecting your modem to a PC

You will need a UART-USB converter, that can work with 3.3V UART. Here is diagrams for soldering:
Before connecting to a PC, make sure that CMD wire is connected to GND

After connecting to your PC, you have to connect CMD wire to logic one (3.3 or 5 V) to enable command mode in your modem:

2. Using μWaveCommander

Run the application and press 🔌 LINK button, if everything is done properly, the application will find your device soon:

You will see information about the device: FW version, serial number etc.

3. Testing built-in sensors

You can see real-time plots of readings of built-in sensors - pressure, depth, temperature, voltage etc. To enable the feature:

1. Go to tab Local Sensors and check following buttons: P, mBar, 🌡, °C, 🡇, m and ⚡, V.

2. Select 1_SEC in the Update period, msec combobox

3. Press 🡇 APPLY button

You will see something like that:

To disable the feature:

1. select NEVER in the Update period, msec combobox

2. Press 🡇 APPLY button

4. Working with Short command requests

Go to tab Remote requests and press AUTO button. The application will start to invoke the modem sending sort remote requests. If you have the second device from the uWave devices family properly set up and turned on, you will see something like the following pic:

5. Packet mode

Go to tab Packet mode. Here you can:

• send packet requests (similar to short requests, but performed with logical addressing among 255 devices)
• send data packets with guaranteed delivery
• received data packets

Here is a relevant screenshot: