Trouble with aux firmware

v2 Custom framework Help and troubleshooting
#1

As I posted elsewhere, I’ve had trouble loading the 0.14 aux firmware. I tried and the controller stopped responding. I tried a few things and was able to get it back to working by going back to 0.13.

Here’s what happened:

  • I had 0.13 aux and main loaded (actually, I maybe hadn’t updated aux since I got it)
  • I cloned 0.14 main from gitlab and made my mods; loaded it and ran fine (didn’t update aux)
  • I downloaded 0.14 aux binary from gitlab and loaded, controller was dead
  • Tried downloading and installing 0.14 main, still no good
  • Finally went back to 0.13 aux and main, that worked
  • Went back to 0.13 aux and my modified 0.14 main, that worked

When I cloned the code, I just cloned the main repo, added my changes in ytx-controller, and built from there. The main branch is 0.14 now, right? Not positive when I cloned, but I think it was after 0.14 was merged.

#2

Mike!

Like I said in the other post, I am not able to reproduce this.

Could you upload a zip file with your modified v0.13 main and v0.14 main firmwares?

This way I can check if the modifications may have altered something there or maybe if you cloned before the merge of v0.14.

Yes, correct, the dev branch has the 0.14 firmware, I am coding v0.15 in a different branch.

#3

You want a zip of the binaries? or my modified code?

perkowitz-bins.zip (101.5 KB)
types.h (17.8 KB)

#4

So, do you have links to up-to-date firmware for both main and aux that I can try out? And maybe detailed step-by-step instructions so I can be sure I’m not doing something wrong? if I can get it working properly with compiled firmware, then I’ll try checking out and modifying source.

#5

Hello Mike!

There seems to be something wrong with the dev branch not being in sync with the 0.14 aux firmware.
I am testing this out trying to find what’s off.

The v0.14 main and aux in the binaries folder should work ok.

#6

Okay, I re-downloaded 14 main and aux binaries and loaded them in (main first), and they seem to be working fine. Now, what source should I grab?

#7

Ok I think I found it.

Please re-download the hardware folder (specifically the variant.cpp file had an issue)

Replace this folder in your Documents/Arduino/hardware and recompile.

Let me know if it works!

#8

Ok, looks good. I cloned the repo, copied over hardware, updated with my changes, and it all seems to be working together.

I tried the test we did before and it seems to be working okay. The only consistent issue I’m seeing is that I need to put in a delay at the beginning of the program, or it misses out on the first 60 or so messages.

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