Hello, I have a RAK3172 Evaluation Board, but I can’t establish communication with it from my PC. The board is detected on a COM port, but when I open the serial monitor, I only see unreadable square characters instead of normal text.
Additionally, when I try to upload firmware or run related tools, I receive a baud rate detection error (“Detect baudrate fail” / “Can’t get the baudrate”).
Has anyone experienced this issue before or knows how to fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Additional information:
Board: RAK3172 Evaluation Board
COM port is detected correctly
Serial monitor displays only square characters
Baud rate detection fails during programming
I am currently developing a project to count how many times a specific device flashes within a one-minute period. I recently acquired a RAK3172 Evolution Board, along with the RAK14000 and RAK12010 modules.
I would like to know whether you consider this platform suitable for this application. Since the project only requires counting flashes/pulses per minute, there is no need for network communication or data transmission.
Do you think the RAK3172 is a good choice for this scenario, or would it be an overly complex solution for such a simple task?
To just count pulses, the RAK3172 is definitely sufficient.
For lowest power consumption I suggest to set the LoRa transceiver inside the RAK3172 to LoRa P2P mode, disable RX and send it to sleep indefinitely.