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@mhmdrameez I used that library before 6 Month ago and Worked fine. But now, it's not working. I think there are some issues with the library. Because there are somany open issues in GitHub Repo.

But while trying with Firebase ESP8299 Client library, which is listed on Arduino library manager it's worked fine for me. So, make a try using this library.

Library: Tools >> Manage Library > search for firebase esp8266

My output :

Firebase:

@salmanfaris forgot to call function getAcData() and getGyData() before goo.AcX...

Is there any commercial product which powered by ATMEGA328P with Arduino bootloader? Also, Is there any problem to use micro-controller in commercial products which using Arduino sketch?

Update!!
I found the issue
I created a Queue inside Rgpio.cpp and called a Funciton from main.cpp to check data in Queue. That worked well!!

Reference to the #commit .

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BaseType_t xQueueSendFromISR
           (
               QueueHandle_t xQueue,
               const void *pvItemToQueue,
               BaseType_t *pxHigherPriorityTaskWoken
           );

I was trying to pass a pointer. That was the issue.
Reference

@codelery It might be because of buffer size of received message. You need to increase the buffer size.
Check the section "Expanding Arduino SoftwareSerial Buffer Size" in this tutorial : https://lastminuteengineers.com/sim800l-gsm-module-arduino-tutorial/

@codelery You can use any Arduino board. So far as i remember, we used Arduino UNO.

Somehow i found the code in my gist. It was a 3 year old project. So, i don't remember most of the things

Code:

#include <SoftwareSerial.h>
#include <SPI.h>
#include <DMD.h>
#include <TimerOne.h>
#include "SystemFont5x7.h"
#include "Arial_black_16.h"

#define ROW 1
#define COLUMN 1
#define FONT Arial_Black_16

DMD led_module(ROW, COLUMN);

String st;
const char *msg;
unsigned int LengMsg;
char finalMsg[100] = "";
SoftwareSerial mySerial(3, 2);

void scan_module() {
  led_module.scanDisplayBySPI();
}

void setup() {
  Timer1.initialize(2000);
  Timer1.attachInterrupt(scan_module);
  led_module.clearScreen( true );

  Serial.begin(9600);
  mySerial.begin(9600);
  Serial.println("Starting...");
  delay(1000);
  mySerial.println("AT");
  updateSerial();
  mySerial.println("AT+CMGF=1");
  updateSerial();
  mySerial.println("AT+CNMI=1,2,0,0,0");
  updateSerial();
}

void loop() {
  //  pollSms();
  displayMessage();
  delay(500);

  //Start print in led matrix
  led_module.selectFont(FONT);
  led_module.drawMarquee(finalMsg, LengMsg, (32 * ROW), 0);
  long start = millis();
  long timming = start;
  boolean flag = false;
  while (!flag) {
    if ((timming + 20) < millis()) {
      flag = led_module.stepMarquee(-1, 0);
      timming = millis();
    }
  }
}

//------GSM Helper

void displayMessage()
{
  delay(500);
  String msg = "";
  int start = 0, endPoint = 0;
  finalMsg[100] = "";
  while (Serial.available())
  {
    mySerial.write(Serial.read());//Forward what Serial received to Software Serial Port
    //     parseData(mySerial.readString());//Calls the parseData function to parse SMS
  }
  while (mySerial.available())
  {
    msg = mySerial.readString();//Forward what Software Serial received to Serial Port
  }

  if (msg.length() > 1) {
    start = msg.indexOf('*') + 1;
    endPoint = msg.indexOf('#') - 1;
    int count = 0;
    if (start > 1 && endPoint > 1) {
      strcpy( finalMsg, "");

      for (int i = start; i <= endPoint; i++) {
        finalMsg[count] = msg[i];
        count++;
      }
      Serial.println("SMS Received: ");
      Serial.println(finalMsg);
      LengMsg = count;
    }
    else{
      return false;
    }
  }
}

void updateSerial()
{
  delay(500);
  while (Serial.available())
  {
    mySerial.write(Serial.read());//Forward what Serial received to Software Serial Port
  }
  while (mySerial.available())
  {
    Serial.write(mySerial.read());//Forward what Software Serial received to Serial Port
  }
}

NB: The sms body should be between start and hash
Eg: * Hello Makers! #

I was trying to configure AP mode in Raspberrypi by using Network Manager. I'm using the below script. but it is throwing some errors.

Bash Script to set AP Mode

host="MyRPiAPMode"
sudo nmcli con add type wifi ifname wlan0 con-name $host autoconnect yes ssid $host
sudo nmcli con modify $host 802-11-wireless.mode ap 802-11-wireless.band bg ipv4.method shared
sudo nmcli con modify $host wifi-sec.key-mgmt wpa-psk
sudo nmcli con modify $host wifi-sec.psk "SomeRandomPassword"
sudo nmcli radio wifi on
sudo nmcli con up $host

Error ----

Connection 'MyRPiAPMode' (60965f2a-f510-48ef-afaf-0864242d0c06) successfully added.
Error: Connection activation failed: No suitable device found for this connection (device eth0 not available because profile is not compatible with device (mismatching interface name)).

nmcli con (After script execution)

NAME                UUID                                  TYPE      DEVICE 
Wired connection 1  9589ff1a-9923-3de3-a8a4-90b319661878  ethernet  eth0   
MyRPiAPMode         60965f2a-f510-48ef-afaf-0864242d0c06  wifi      --   

nmcli dev

DEVICE  TYPE      STATE        CONNECTION         
eth0    ethernet  connected    Wired connection 1 
wlan0   wifi      unavailable  --                 
lo      loopback  unmanaged    -- 

I tried to make it availble via sudo nmcli radio wifi on
But not working.

this is the log

-- Journal begins at Sat 2021-08-07 09:28:21 IST. --
Aug 10 15:06:19 NWPI-b5b072 NetworkManager[16140]: <info>  [1660124179.9816] audit: op="connection-update" uuid="60965f2a-f510-48ef-afaf-0864242d0c06" name="MyRPiAPMode" args="802-11-wireless-security.psk" pid=25120 uid=0 result="success"
Aug 10 15:06:20 NWPI-b5b072 NetworkManager[16140]: <info>  [1660124180.0902] audit: op="radio-control" arg="wireless-enabled" pid=25125 uid=0 result="success"
Aug 10 15:06:21 NWPI-b5b072 NetworkManager[16140]: <info>  [1660124181.4241] agent-manager: agent[641f99ab55d9691c,:1.692/nmcli-connect/0]: agent registered
Aug 10 15:06:21 NWPI-b5b072 NetworkManager[16140]: <info>  [1660124181.4281] audit: op="connection-activate" uuid="60965f2a-f510-48ef-afaf-0864242d0c06" name="MyRPiAPMode" result="fail" reason="No suitable device found for this connection (device eth0 not available because profile is not compatible with device (mismatching interface name))."
Aug 10 15:06:52 NWPI-b5b072 NetworkManager[16140]: <info>  [1660124212.0573] agent-manager: agent[70ee130ba0f26cd7,:1.696/nmcli-connect/1000]: agent registered
Aug 10 15:06:52 NWPI-b5b072 NetworkManager[16140]: <info>  [1660124212.0614] audit: op="connection-activate" uuid="60965f2a-f510-48ef-afaf-0864242d0c06" name="MyRPiAPMode" result="fail" reason="No suitable device found for this connection (device eth0 not available because profile is not compatible with device (mismatching interface name))."
Aug 10 15:07:23 NWPI-b5b072 NetworkManager[16140]: <info>  [1660124243.0370] agent-manager: agent[cc77ef461499c164,:1.700/nmcli-connect/0]: agent registered
Aug 10 15:07:23 NWPI-b5b072 NetworkManager[16140]: <info>  [1660124243.0414] audit: op="connection-activate" uuid="60965f2a-f510-48ef-afaf-0864242d0c06" name="MyRPiAPMode" result="fail" reason="No suitable device found for this connection (device eth0 not available because profile is not compatible with device (mismatching interface name))."
Aug 10 15:07:41 NWPI-b5b072 NetworkManager[16140]: <info>  [1660124261.8406] agent-manager: agent[79b01af218789b42,:1.702/nmcli-connect/0]: agent registered
Aug 10 15:07:41 NWPI-b5b072 NetworkManager[16140]: <info>  [1660124261.8446] audit: op="connection-activate" uuid="60965f2a-f510-48ef-afaf-0864242d0c06" name="MyRPiAPMode" result="fail" reason="No suitable device found for this connection (device eth0 not available because profile is not compatible with device (mismatching interface name))."

BaseType_t xQueueSendFromISR
           (
               QueueHandle_t xQueue,
               const void *pvItemToQueue,
               BaseType_t *pxHigherPriorityTaskWoken
           );

I was trying to pass a pointer. That was the issue.
Reference

Update!!
I found the issue
I created a Queue inside Rgpio.cpp and called a Funciton from main.cpp to check data in Queue. That worked well!!

Reference to the #commit .

I'm trying to pass a value into Queue from Interrupt Service Routine(ISR) using xQueueSendFromISR() <-- Reference

But I'm getting this error and ESP restart immediately.

Guru Meditation Error: Core  0 panic'ed (LoadProhibited). Exception was unhandled.
Core 0 register dump:
PC      : 0x4021227c  PS      : 0x00000033  A0      : 0x4021c72e  A1      : 0x3ffe8220

Here is the gpio interrupt example which I'm following.

Here is my code. I did some modification in this.

Check 70th line of this location.

static void main_power_isr_handler(void* arg)
{
    xQueueHandle* main_q = (xQueueHandle*)arg;
    static main_q_payload_t msg;
    msg.hdr = E_MAIN_MSG_MAIN_POWER_STATUS;
    msg.bool_payload = gpio_get_level(GPIO_MAIN_POWER);
    //ets_printf("Someone Interrupted \n ");
    xQueueSendFromISR(main_q, &msg, NULL); //!!! THIS LINE
}

Thank-you @salmanfaris
It's solved.
Actually, It was my mistake. I didn't add a proper reset for MCU.

@salmanfaris Yes.

@salmanfaris When connecting with PC. It will work well.

@salmanfaris At that time not receiving an actual message. Receiving a blank message.