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I bought a PN532 from Elechouse (documentation here) because I need to read IDs from Type B NFC cards.

My problem is that even if they say the hardware supports Type B, the official libraries an examples they provide are not made to.

I have not problem reading Type A cards, but nothing happends when I tap Type B cards.

After long searchs on internet I found that absolutely every PN532 sellers have chosen to support only Type A cards in their libraries because according to them, a librari supporting both types would have taken too much space in Arduino's memory.

So today my problem is as simple as that: how to read Type B NFC cards using PN532 on an Arduino UNO?

I'm a bit new in Arduino so after many hours of searching and trying I couldn't figure out how to do it.

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  • Same problem even using libnfc doesn´t work with that card, only recognizes it i read that it could be an antenna problem, because of the elechouse pn532. I´m going to try to made an external antenna
    – Roberto Martinez
    Commented Nov 4, 2018 at 7:15
  • We eventually gave up after many attempts, even involving other developpers, turned out the protocol was quite specific, in the end we used smartphones with NFC capability that could read it.
    – rAthus
    Commented Nov 5, 2018 at 8:59

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I dont have an exact reply but

1) are you certain the other tags are type b?

2) hace you tried connecting the reader using a UART USB cable? You could use libnfc, to check if the reader works. And going forward at commands FOR the reader are a good way to debbug.

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