cmcgrath5035

Just a thought for you to contemplate until Riley or Alden pop in.

In fixing something in the most recent build of tgFX, Riley had to change flow control to RTS/CTS, away from Xon/Xoff. Since your problem sounds like buffer over run, perhaps you can experiment on that path?
That would be $ex=2.
Good luck

This is total speculation on my part – perhaps avrdude on windows expects a .txt file for it’s hex to binary processing to work properly?
I left Windows a long time ago for Linux and have forgotten some of the unusual rules regarding handling binary files.

Anyway, sounds like you are up and running.

Might I suggest to check around for CoolTerm – it seems to be a popular low level interface useful for communicating with a TinyG.
I use Putty myself, primarily because it is available Linux and Windows.

As for tinyG, review this thread

https://www.synthetos.com/topics/new-tgfx-pushed/

I am seeing some good results with this latest EDGE (== beta) version that Riley is working on.

Thanks for the check out, I am now having fairly consistent good success running Prevues with TinyG 0.96/380.08 and tgFX EDGE 2404 as well.

Here are the current parameters I am using

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50261731/TinyG_10-17-ShapeOko.log

Here are the results

Riley thinks he knows where the intermittent lead-in bug is, otherwise looks very good.

IMHO, your P4 may not be enough horsepower to run this java app. Can you try it with a P5 or higher to test your setup?

areinike
Try to grab the file from my dropbox

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50261731/tinyg.hex

The size should be close to 282.2 KB, may not be exact because of differences between Linux and Windows interpretation of “K”.

If , in running avrdude, you see

avrdude: writing flash (102724 bytes):

you will probably be good.

Good Luck

Just reread your post – 283K is probably the right Windows size.
You could read it, so it is probably ASCII.
My guess is that avrdude does the ASCII–>Hex conversion before sending to the bootloader

• This reply was modified 11 years, 2 months ago by cmcgrath5035.

OK, now I see the error in my ways.

In Linux, the easiest way to get such a file is the cli command
wget https://raw.github.com/synthetos/TinyG/master/firmware/tinyg/default/tinyg.hex
Probably same in IOS, sorry, not sure for Windows.

Ran Avrdude 5.11.1

avrdude -p x192a3 -c avr109 -b 115200 -P /dev/ttyUSB0 -U flash:w:tinyg.hex

Connecting to programmer: .
Found programmer: Id = "XBoot++"; type = S
    Software Version = 1.7; No Hardware Version given.
Programmer supports auto addr increment.
Programmer supports buffered memory access with buffersize=512 bytes.

Programmer supports the following devices:
    Device code: 0x7b

avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions

Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.00s

avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e9744
avrdude: NOTE: FLASH memory has been specified, an erase cycle will be performed
         To disable this feature, specify the -D option.
avrdude: erasing chip
avrdude: reading input file "tinyg.hex"
avrdude: input file tinyg.hex auto detected as Intel Hex
avrdude: writing flash (102724 bytes):

Writing | ################################################## | 100% 11.23s

avrdude: 102724 bytes of flash written
avrdude: verifying flash memory against tinyg.hex:
avrdude: load data flash data from input file tinyg.hex:
avrdude: input file tinyg.hex auto detected as Intel Hex
avrdude: input file tinyg.hex contains 102724 bytes
avrdude: reading on-chip flash data:

Reading | ################################################## | 100% 9.42s

avrdude: verifying ...
avrdude: 102724 bytes of flash verified

avrdude done.  Thank you.

On connection via Putty, I get

$
[fb]  firmware build            380.08
[fv]  firmware version            0.96
[hv]  hardware version            8.00
[id]  TinyG ID                    9H3906-P2T
[ja]  junction acceleration  100000 mm
[ct]  chordal tolerance           0.001 mm
[st]  switch type                 0 [0=NO,1=NC]
[mt]  motor disble timeout       60 Sec
[ej]  enable json mode            0 [0=text,1=JSON]
[jv]  json verbosity              4 [0=silent,1=footer,2=messages,3=configs,4=linenum,5=verbose]
[tv]  text verbosity              1 [0=silent,1=verbose]
[qv]  queue report verbosity      0 [0=off,1=filtered,2=verbose]
[sv]  status report verbosity     1 [0=off,1=filtered,2=verbose]
[si]  status interval           250 ms
[ic]  ignore CR or LF on RX       0 [0=off,1=CR,2=LF]
[ec]  expand LF to CRLF on TX     0 [0=off,1=on]
[ee]  enable echo                 0 [0=off,1=on]
[ex]  enable flow control         1 [0=off,1=XON/XOFF, 2=RTS/CTS]
[baud] USB baud rate              5 [1=9600,2=19200,3=38400,4=57600,5=115200,6=230400]
[gpl] default gcode plane         0 [0=G17,1=G18,2=G19]
[gun] default gcode units mode    1 [0=G20,1=G21]
[gco] default gcode coord system  1 [1-6 (G54-G59)]
[gpa] default gcode path control  2 [0=G61,1=G61.1,2=G64]
[gdi] default gcode distance mode 0 [0=G90,1=G91]
tinyg [mm] ok> 

Looks like I live to fight another few hours, at least.

Big day: Ready to connect my ShapeOko

Well, that’s too bad.
I downloaded that TinyG.hex file to my Linux system, then ran avrdude 5.11.1. My results are the same areinike, a flashing brick.

avrdude -p x192a3 -c avr109 -b 115200 -P /dev/ttyUSB0 -U flash:w:tinyg.hex

Connecting to programmer: .
Found programmer: Id = "XBoot++"; type = S
    Software Version = 1.7; No Hardware Version given.
Programmer supports auto addr increment.
Programmer supports buffered memory access with buffersize=512 bytes.

Programmer supports the following devices:
    Device code: 0x7b

avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions

Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.00s

avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e9744
avrdude: NOTE: FLASH memory has been specified, an erase cycle will be performed
         To disable this feature, specify the -D option.
avrdude: erasing chip
avrdude: reading input file "tinyg.hex"
avrdude: input file tinyg.hex auto detected as raw binary
avrdude: writing flash (204800 bytes):

Writing |                                                    | 0% 0.00savrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding

It would be helpful if Alden could post what version number avrdude the downloader was tested against, since there is not a clear answer as to which version of avrdude is made available with the arduino (referenced on the wiki)

The good news is I still have your address in my Priority Mail address book, you will be seeing my TinyG V7 soon for reprogramming, I don’t have a programmer.

Makerboost

Can you try to run a Prevue (Motors inhibited) of the ShapeOko hello-world Gcode found at

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50261731/Hello_World_ShapeOko.txt

I have been having issues (distorted characters) with it, and I wonder if your configuration parameter set is better than mine.

If it works, can you post your current $$ dump?

Thanks