Hi,
I’m ‘trying’ to get going with my BB2 and Basic AtomPro - but am having problems - if anyone can offer some ‘idiot level’ help that would be much appreciated.
My set-up is for a phoenix hex’ but for the purposes of testing i have the BB2 sitting on my desk on it’s own - Not connected to the SSC-32.
I have a 9V pp3 connected to VL
I have the serial cable plugged in and into the serial port on my laptop.
I have jumpers in DT, CM, AT and one at the far en between c9 and 5V no other jumpers are connected.
When i power up the green power light is on, the A, B, C leds light up too
The speaker emits a regular clicking sound.
I’ve loaded IDE 8.0.1 I try to detect the Atom pro, but it seems to skip COM1 (my serial port) test COM3 then report no device found.
Check the pins on the Atom. Sometimes they don’t go in the socket holes properly and get bent to the inside, which can be hard to spot (for the myopic folks like myself, anyway).
I’m not 100% sure what you mean by C9 and 5v.
If you mean the two pins that are labelled ‘9’ in the ABB2 manual (speaker enable, or SPKEN on the board itself ), then that’s correct.
If you’ve jumpered pin 9 (in the row of pins labelled P0-P15 on the board, marked with ‘14’ in the manual), that might be where your speaker noise is coming from. Remove the jumper if its there.
i’ve just spent a whole evening trying to connect to the BB2 and sort out my SSC-32 issues and achieved nothing more than a headache.
i’ve gone right back to basics with the BB2 - attempting to follow the ‘servo mid position’ tutorial.
the BB2 is set-up exactly as described in that tutorial. I’ve downloaded the indicated version of IDE and tired to connect. For some reason it just seems to skip COM1 (my serial post) and try on COM3 an unused port. I have a ‘real’ serial port so there’s no issues with usb/serial drivers etc.
I’ve also used this port to successfully connect to my SSC-32 (i can still do this too). In windows hardware prefs i’ve got the port set to 9600 and in IDE it’s set to 9600 too. I’ve tried connecting via both the preferences and terminal windows, but without any success. The green LED on the board is lit, and with the speaker jumper installed i’m getting a continuous repeated clicking sound.
I’ve also checked that the Atom Pro 28 is connected the right way around.
I’m stumped and until i can get it working (and the issues with the SSC-32 sorted) my phoenix project is quickly grinding to a halt.
Jumping at straws here, but, here is a few things to try. P.S. - It is no idiot level as many of us have been there!
Do as Matt said and check the pins of the Atom to make sure all of the pins are in the holes and seated properly. I once had a pin bend over and not make contact.
Not sure what 9v pp3 is, but if battery make sure that it has a charge. If a wall wart check to make sure the voltages and polarity is correct…
Make sure your serial cable is working properly. The Atom needs more than the RX and TX and Ground pins to connect, where this would be sufficient to talk to SSC-32
Try modifying the advanced comm settings in the Atom Pro IDE. In particular you might try modifying reset hold time. There have been a few threads on this.
If there is anything else plugged into this board, other than the serial cable and power, unplug them, to make sure that you don’t have any shorts.
Make sure there are no hardware conflicts with your comm port on your computer. maybe it works ok at 9600 but not at the higher speeds needed for programming the Pro.
if possible try it on a different computer. It is always nice to find out if the problem is on your computer or with the board itself.
After an evening of TOTAL frustration and not being able to sleep, because my head was full of ‘why won’t it bloody work’. I headed out for an 8 mile run first thing this morning and managed to completely forget that my phoenix project was driving me mad.
My lady wife was out for the day so i decided to read through as many threads as possible to try and find a way to get the BB2 and AtomPro connected.
I saw the sticky about serial port settings an read it about ten times - while trying to find the appropriate settings on my laptop. (i’m not a windows man - macs are my thing )
Anyway i found the FIFO dialogue and the sticky began to make sense. The upper bar snaps to the markers, but the low has some ‘play’. I matched the settings (to a value of 4), plugged the BB2 in, powered it and IDE up and BANG “AtomPro detected on COM1” !!! It works but i’ve no idea what i’ve done, why i’ve done it and what effect it has - which i would like to understand, but having it work is more than good enough for the moment.
I downloaded the BackWido bas file, opened it into IDE and “guessing” what to do next i clicked [tools]->[program], a dialogue opened and it uploaded and verified like a dream.
You just can’t imagine how relieved/pleased i am that it finally worked.
Just one more problem to sort out - seemingly duff VL on my SSC-32 and i might get close to actually seeing my phoenix walk.
Kinda got there myself in the end, by reading through all the threads, but it might be good to pull some of this info together into an ‘idiot/newbie/non-windows-user guide to getting going’ sticky at some point.
Once i get my phoenix walking i might submit something with pics if that’s ok?
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