Using Arduino wireless SD Shield to save data to sd card and send to PC over wireless network

Question

I'm using an Arduino Mega to monitor the current & voltage input to four different sensors. This works fine - the sensors work as expected and I can view the results via the Serial Monitor or Parallax DAQ for Excel.

SETUP

I also have an Arduino wireless SD shield (now retired) with an XBee module (shown in the below image):

1. Arduino Shield page
2. XBee module page

I would like to do the following:

1. Save the current/voltage sensors' output locally to the SD card
2. Send the data over a wifi connection for plotting using plotly API (see example here)

I've seen a bunch of tutorials on how to get the shield to work but can't seem to figure it out:

1. Arduino WiFi shield example
2. Instructables
3. Can I connect to WiFi with an Arduino, "wireless SD shield" and XBee

Here's my code (removed the current/voltage sensor code for brevity):

#include <SPI.h>
#include <WiFi.h>
#include <SD.h>

void setup() {
  // initialize serial and wait for the port to open:  
  Serial.begin(9600);
  while(!Serial) ;


  SPI.begin();

  Serial.println("Checking WiFi status:");
  Serial.print("\tWiFi Status: ");
  Serial.println(WiFi.status());

  if(WiFi.status() == WL_NO_SHIELD){
    Serial.println("\tNo Shield present.\n");
  }else{
    Serial.println("\tShield found.\n");
  }

  Serial.println("Initializing SD card:");
  if (!SD.begin(53)) {
    Serial.println("\tSD card initialization failed.\n");
    return;
  }else{
    Serial.println("\tSD card initialization successful.\n");    
  }


  // attempt to connect using WEP encryption:
  Serial.println("Initializing Wifi:");
  printMacAddress();

  // scan for existing networks:
  Serial.println("Scanning available networks...");
  listNetworks();
}

void loop() {
  delay(5000);
  // scan for existing networks:
  Serial.println("Scanning available networks:");
  listNetworks();
}

void printMacAddress() {
  // the MAC address of your Wifi shield
  byte mac[6];                     

  // print your MAC address:
  WiFi.macAddress(mac);
  Serial.print("\tMAC: ");

  for(int i = 0; i < 5; i++){
    Serial.print(mac[5-i],HEX);
    if(i != 5){
      Serial.print(":");
    }
  }
  Serial.println(" ");
}

void listNetworks() {
  // scan for nearby networks:
  Serial.println("** Scan Networks **");
  byte numSsid = WiFi.scanNetworks();

  // print the list of networks seen:
  Serial.print("number of available networks:");
  Serial.println(numSsid);

  // print the network number and name for each network found:
  for (int thisNet = 0; thisNet<numSsid; thisNet++) {
    Serial.print(thisNet);
    Serial.print(") ");
    Serial.print(WiFi.SSID(thisNet));
    Serial.print("\tSignal: ");
    Serial.print(WiFi.RSSI(thisNet));
    Serial.print(" dBm");
    Serial.print("\tEncryption: ");
    Serial.println(WiFi.encryptionType(thisNet));
  }
}

OUTPUT

Checking WiFi status:
    WiFi Status: 255
    No Shield present.

Initializing SD card:
    SD card initialization successful.

Initializing Wifi:
    MAC: 0:0:0:0:0: 
Scanning available networks...
** Scan Networks **
number of available networks:0

Not sure what is going on here.

Answer 1

"Arduino Wireless SD shield" is not "Arduino WiFi shield".

The code you have is for the Arduino WiFi shield. But you have Arduino Wireless SD shield for a XBee module. XBee is not WiFi. Zigbee protocol is different protocol than WiFi.

You can save data to SD card with the SD library. Install the library in Library Manager and try the examples.

Arduino WiFi shield: Note: the Arduino WiFi library is only for this shield and clones