TinyG not used for 1 year. Now dead?

My tinyG just magically stopped working. Its recognised by chillipepr but dont respond to commands.
I took a 1 year break from CNC’ing.. coz making PCBs in China was faster. Yesterday i connected my Chinese CNC 3040Z-DQ and TinyG (Raspberry Pi 3). Its not responding in Chilipeppr. I used to mill PCBs weekly. It basically stood safe on my desk <>11 months.

Its connected to USB. Chillipepr knows its there.

This is what i tried.
1. Connected the TinyG with my usual USB cable.
2. Updated serial-port-json-server from 1.91 to 1.95
3. Started serial-port-json-server Version:1.95

2018/01/22 23:19:40 main.go:169: Your serial ports:
2018/01/22 23:19:40 main.go:176: {/dev/ttyAMA0 ttyAMA0 [] }
2018/01/22 23:19:40 main.go:176: {/dev/ttyS0 ttyS0 [] }
2018/01/22 23:19:40 main.go:176: {/dev/ttyUSB0 FTDI FT230X Basic UART (ttyUSB0) [] DA014WO6 00 FTDI 6015 0403}

4. Scan for server.
5. Connect to the found server and choose the “FTDI FT230X Basic UART (ttyUSB0)” and set checkmark.
A counter starts running quickly 0 to 15 fast.
type=tinyg, speed=115200
This used to work fine.

6. in console, only a questionmark appears;
Console /dev/ttyUSB0
?
Then i try:
$sys

Nothing happens.
This is really, really weird. Everything worked fine. The difference beyween today and 22-1-2017 was the TinyG / CNC was never used. Not even switched on since that time.
7. Then i tried it on my Windows 10 machine. Same thing.
8. i What the heck I tried reprogramming choosing serial port ttyUSB0 on the pi.
– device = synthetos TinyG v8
– URL = http://synthetos.github.io/binaries/tinyg-master-440.20.hex
– Choose program.
Chillipepr then reports;
Making sure /dev/ttyUSB0 port is closed so we have access to it for programming… Programming… Could not program the board.
9. Tried step (8) in Windows. Got a message about ‘butterfly_recv, programmer not responding“.

This really weird. machine not used. Stood on my desk all the time. Untouched. I thought to sell it but cant unless this issue is fixed.

• This topic was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by easylab4kids.