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  • June 20, 2013 at 5:15 pm #4188
    Riley
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    First off. What version of tgFX do you have? it will be the ‘build number’.

    Second, when you click the reset button do you see the a red light flash for about 3 seconds? This means that while the red light is flashing your board is in the “bootloader mode”. This is a good thing. It, from there should enter the application (read tingy normal) and give you some serial output like System ready.

    Riley

    June 20, 2013 at 5:26 pm #4191
    tobinfisher
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    Thanks for the quick response!

    I just cloned the latest version of tgFX from github. I don’t see where to find the build number though in the code or the app.

    I do see a flashing red light for about 3 seconds when I reset the tinyG board, but I don’t get any system ready response in CoolTerm, just a blank terminal window. The board has a solid green light (next to Motor 1 terminals) and a solid blue light (next to the usb port).

    June 20, 2013 at 5:31 pm #4192
    Riley
    Keymaster

    The build version is in tgFX. You do not need to clone the repo 🙂 When you run the app its under the tgfx settings tab.

    The good thing is you are not alone so this more than likely is not an hardware issue.

    TinyG stopped responding?

    I posted how to fix this on that thread. If this problem is what I think it is we will need to reload your bootloader (or if you have a programmer you can do that) Right now the quick fix is to do an re-flash via of the tinyg firmware. Read that other thread and it should get you going. I will look more into this problem.

    Riley

    June 20, 2013 at 5:43 pm #4193
    tobinfisher
    Member

    It’s build number 1590. I didn’t see another way to run tgFX on my mac without cloning the repo and running it from netbeans. Am I missing something?

    I’ve got an atmel programmer, so I can give reflashing the code a shot.

    Thanks again for the speedy help!

    June 20, 2013 at 6:15 pm #4194
    Riley
    Keymaster

    can you shoot me an email? I if you have some time I would like to trouble shoot this offline.

    Perhaps a hangout / cell call?

    riley<nospace>porter@gmail.com

    June 20, 2013 at 6:15 pm #4195
    tobinfisher
    Member

    That did it!

    I see now that the red light is on solid and the green light is no longer on.

    If it helps for debugging, I believe that the green light first went on when I was adjusting the motor1 pot.

    Thanks.

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