Can ANYONE help me? I have made it to step 15 in the Pheonix tutorial from Lynxmotion. After I attempt to program the Atom Pro I see a message that says “errors detected”. The PS2 controller does not have any effect on the robot. I have tried everything I can think of but to no avail. I ordered a new Atom Pro. Maybe this is the problem, or the PS2 controller does not function properly. Can anybody help me? Thanks.
Have you successfully programmed the Atom Pro at any time?
Can you post the error that you get?
Often it’s just a tiny thing like a “,”.
At the end of the error line it says TOKEN…<–What stands here must be the problem.
Hi cefIII,
The error you’re getting does not concern the PS2 remote. There is something going wrong while programming the BAP. The PS2 remote isn’t doing a thing since there proberbly isn’t any programm in the BAP. 
How did you connect the BAP to the PC? Are you using a normal serial output on your pc or have you got a USB to RS232 converter?
I’m asking this because there are a lot of problems programming the BAP using USB to RS232 converter. Some work fine, some don’t.
Try connecting the BAP directly to the PC using a strait serial cable. If you haven’t got a RS232 connector on your pc, read this post for more information.
Xan
Hi cefIII,
As a few of the others have mentioned, it helps to have a little more information, like what the error was. Errors detected imply that the program that you tried to compile did not succeed, which as Xan mentioned implies that it was not downloaded to your microcontroller and as such the robot will not work…
You mention step 15 which is to download the IDE. Which one did you download and install? I would recommend the 8.0.1.11. Did you then configure the IDE for the correct comm port?
In step 16 it mentions to download the software. I assume you downloaded the file phoenix1.3.bas file and loaded it into the IDE and then tried to compile it?
Good Luck
Kurt
Hi Kurte, We’re holding on 8.0.1.7 as it was the version used to create the tutorial. Studio is to be released very soon, and then we will verify all tutorials for use with it.
Having the FTDI based cable is a good thing, but you must go to the driver and change a couple things. As mentioned in this thread…
lynxmotion.net/viewtopic.php?t=4702
When using the FTDI cable we recommend the following changes within the driver settings.
With the USB to serial cable plugged in and recognized by Windows go into:
control panel
system
hardware
device manager
Ports (COM & LPT)
USB Serial Port (COM?)
Port Settings
Advanced
Make sure the receive and transmit transfer sizes are 4096, and change the latency to 1. Click ok then ok. Then close the rest. The latency is the delay before sending data. If it’s too long problems arise.