Why does the RCSwitch.available return false?

Question

I am trying to use this example code from the RCSwitch library:

/*
  Simple example for receiving

  https://github.com/sui77/rc-switch
*/

#include <RCSwitch.h>

RCSwitch mySwitch = RCSwitch();

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
  mySwitch.enableReceive(0);  // Receiver on inerrupt 0 => that is pin #2
}

void loop() {
  if (mySwitch.available()) {
    Serial.print("Is avail");
    int value = mySwitch.getReceivedValue();

    if (value == 0) {
      Serial.print("Unknown encoding");
    } else {
      Serial.print("Received ");
      Serial.print( mySwitch.getReceivedValue() );
      Serial.print(" / ");
      Serial.print( mySwitch.getReceivedBitlength() );
      Serial.print("bit ");
      Serial.print("Protocol: ");
      Serial.println( mySwitch.getReceivedProtocol() );
    }

    mySwitch.resetAvailable();
  }
}

It seems like the mySwitch.available() is returning false, but since there seems to be no documentation for the library I don't know what it means.

So why is that?

I am trying to use this code on a A-Star 32U4 Micro, which supports Arduino code.

Answer 1

I think that the value of available just determine if there is a message to receive or not.

Answer 2

Your code is OK. It seems that the transmitter's remote control frequency is different from the receiver. Both transmitters and receivers must have the same frequency. 433MHZ - TX with 433MHZ - RX 315MHZ - TX with 315MHZ - RX