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adonno / tagreader

Simple to build/use NFC tag reader, specially created for Home Assistant
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Received 2 new card readers but 1st one is not working... #124

Closed danielbrunt57 closed 2 years ago

danielbrunt57 commented 3 years ago

I received my two tag readers yesterday, thank you. The first one I was able to connect to its wi-fi URL and configured it to connect to my wi-fi and it showed up in HA but it will not scan any tags. I moved onto the 2nd one and immediately noticed a difference between the two... the first one has no indicator lights after power up whereas the 2nd one lit up with a red LED. The 1st one is successfully connected to my wi-fi as I can ping its DHCP address but nothing beyond that. It does emit a sound shortly after being powered up but no red LED and no scans. I can turn on the blue LED from HA and have noticed the blue LED is somewhat different than the 2nd reader... the first looks like four dots in a circle but the 2nd reader looks like a single bright blue LED.

danielbrunt57 commented 3 years ago

IMG_20210714_233230 IMG_20210714_233347

danielbrunt57 commented 3 years ago

Fixed!

Opened the case and found a bad solder joint on the ground... IMG_20210715_165006

Also found the reason for the difference in the blue LED's... IMG_20210715_165526

adonno commented 3 years ago

Hey, @danielbrunt57 I am sorry for the poorly soldered GND I usually test them all and take great care in making sure I don't send defective devices.

I also seem to have sent you TWO Different versions of the LID which is also not standard practice. Is there anything I can do?

danielbrunt57 commented 3 years ago

You can send me a new lid so they are the same. I carefully dremelled the white plastic away on the 4 dot version so I see a blue circle from inside it now but it still appears as 4 dots which I can see from the back side if I hold it up to a light.

While I got the first one up and running after re-soldering the GND, the green LED is not working. Blue is working and if I turn that on and then scan, it just turns off rather than changing to green like my 2nd reader does. Could that be another bad solder joint?

nielsrune commented 3 years ago

Just to add to this, my LED isn't working at all. After seeing this post, I opened the lid which has the hole (equal to the bottom one in OP's picture)

But the LED won't turn on, even when switching on in HA :-(

adonno commented 3 years ago

@danielbrunt57 @nielsrune would you mind hitting me up with an email please ? so that I don't lose track?

nielsrune commented 3 years ago

@danielbrunt57 @nielsrune would you mind hitting me up with an email please ? so that I don't lose track?

@adonno I beat you to it :-) See my e-mail of August 8th to adonno@adonno.com, subject "LED seems to be faulty or missing"

adonno commented 3 years ago

i'm working on a solution by end of the week

0n3-70uch commented 3 years ago

Just to add to this, my LED isn't working at all. After seeing this post, I opened the lid which has the hole (equal to the bottom one in OP's picture)

But the LED won't turn on, even when switching on in HA :-(

Hello, I have the same problem. The LED worked fine for just one hour...

hermanops commented 3 years ago

Hi, I also have this problem. I bought the Tag Reader Sandwich Version and the LED isn't working anymore

Strangehadron commented 3 years ago

I've made a tag reader, same wiring than the schematics and same code and the led wasn't working either. (a W2812B)

I've comment the line : default_transition_length: 10msto desactivate it and now i can turn on/off and change the color of my led via HA, but the led don't flash when scan a tag.

I try then to increase the flash length to 5500ms to try to debug, when scan a tag i can see the light changing state to on in green for 5,5sec and then turn off but led itself don't flash.

Using the last version of esphome : 2021.8

EDIT 08/29 : Update device to 2021.8.2 led is flashing again. All work, great ! 👍

nielsrune commented 3 years ago

i'm working on a solution by end of the week

@adonno, any update on this one? As per the picture I sent by e-mail, my LED seems physically missing.

adonno commented 3 years ago

small update , i have been waiting on parts and they finally arrived i'll update you this weekend

0n3-70uch commented 3 years ago

small update , i have been waiting on parts and they finally arrived i'll update you this weekend

Great thank you.

adonno commented 3 years ago

@danielbrunt57 i am unable to get back to you via email it seems i'm blocked ?

adonno commented 2 years ago

everyone should have gotten their fixed devices?

danielbrunt57 commented 2 years ago

No sign of mine yet...

adonno commented 2 years ago

yeah just noticed it's still in transit. it was sent on Dec 8. i will have to check with postal services there are several packages stuck

adonno commented 2 years ago

this time they finally arrived. :-D