eepe on linux

[Jellono]

Hello,

Might not be the right place but can anyone point me in the right direction.. I am running linux and can't seem to get eepe to see the controller, If I turn on the radio with the horizontal trims pressed in I get a good mount of the SD card and Eprom

with the unit off I plug in the USB cable and my lsusb shows the device as:

Bus 004 Device 011: ID 0483:df11 STMicroelectronics STM Device in DFU Mode

My configuration for eepe is:


avrDude :/usr/bin/avrdude
Programmer: usbasp
mcu: m64
Port: Blank or USB same result
Extras: nothing..

eepe responds with:

=================================================================================
Started AVRDUDE
/usr/bin/avrdude -c usbasp -p m128 -U eeprom:r:/tmp/temp.hex:i
=================================================================================
avrdude: error: could not find USB device with vid=0x16c0 pid=0x5dc vendor='www.fischl.de' product='USBasp'

avrdude done. Thank you.


=================================================================================
AVRDUDE done - exit code 1
=================================================================================

I have no clue what this device it is looking for is..

Any help would be appreciated.

Dave

[s_mack]

With the 9Xtreme, you want to use EEPSKYE, not EEPE. It is installed along with EEPE, at least on Windows. I have to admit to being Linux-ignorant.

Perhaps you're not understanding the board-to-board relationship either. Before 9Xtreme, the idea was we take our 9X, hook a programmer to it and flash it with custom firmware. With the 9Xtreme it is different. We take the 9X, strap this big ugly monster of a board to it and that board basically makes the 9X its play toy. YOU don't have to do anything with your 9X... the 9Xtreme takes care of those piddly details. When you run eepskye, you're communicating with the 9Xtreme, not the 9X. The 9X just sits in the corner and quivers until its is needed.

[MikeB]

Go to http://www.er9x.com/, and install eepskye using one of the links at the bottom right, where I indicate they should be used for the 9Xtreme.

Mike.

[Jellono]

Mike,

Thnaks for the link I went to work and installed the software on my windows box and am still seeing :

=================================================================================
Started AVRDUDE
C:/Program Files (x86)/eePe/avrdude.exe -c usbasp -p m64 -U eeprom:r:C:/Users/DAVID~1.LIB/AppData/Local/Temp/temp.hex:i
=================================================================================
avrdude.exe: error: could not find USB device "USBasp" with vid=0x16c0 pid=0x5dc

=================================================================================
AVRDUDE done - exit code 1
=================================================================================


DO I have to put the controller into a special mode?

[MikeB]

You are using eepe, not eepskye.
You need eepskye for the 9Xtreme board.

Mike.

[Jellono]

Got it ..
Thanks..

[PacketLoss]

I'm using eepesky but getting "Tx Disk Not Found" which I assume to be USB device driver issue, there seems to be an array of drivers available, any recommendations?

I'm about to try Zadig given what I've read: http://zadig.akeo.ie/

[MikeB]

Are you using the eepskye from: http://www.er9x.com/, downloaded from the link near the bottom right?
Are you using Windows or linux?

Mike.

[PacketLoss]

Are you using the eepskye from: http://www.er9x.com/, downloaded from the link near the bottom right?
Are you using Windows or linux?

Mike.

Yep Provisional revision 419 for Windows (Windows 7 64), I had "STM device in DFU mode" listed under device manager but post running Zadig I get "STM32 BOOTLOADER" but same error occurs.

[jhsa]

Turn your radio ON while holding both horizontal trims towards the center of the radio. The radio will start in bootloader mode. Now connect the usb cable between the tx and the computer. 2 drives will appear on the screen. One is the SD Card and the other is the physical memory from the radio which contains the firmware and eeprom. Do not do anything with this one. Now you can try to read the eeprom from Eepskye..

[PacketLoss]

Turn your radio ON while holding both horizontal trims towards the center of the radio. The radio will start in bootloader mode. Now connect the usb cable between the tx and the computer. 2 drives will appear on the screen. One is the SD Card and the other is the physical memory from the radio which contains the firmware and eeprom. Do not do anything with this one. Now you can try to read the eeprom from Eepskye..

Many thanks jhsa, that worked perfectly as you described (although only one disk for me as no SD card yet)

I'd probably add that it took just under 10 seconds before the screen went from "No firmware" to "Connecting.." and the drives mapped in Windows, so patience should be observed.

am I dumb ass, did I not read something I should have?

[jhsa]

Well, the information is a bit scattered at the moment.. the way tou turn the radio on in bootloader mode is very similar to the 9XR-PRO radio, so in this case its manual would apply. But the manual is quite old now as ersky9x suffered heavy development lately. The best manual fo learning how to navigate the menus is the one for er9x which is basically the same firmware as ersky9x but has a little less optiins/features. .

[PacketLoss]

Appreciate you not answering the rhetorical question

Will take a look as advised, I'm new to this breed of firmware.

[jhsa]

Forget about the conventional way normal radios work. This system you don't have all the mixes pre-programmed like in other closed systems. It means a bit more work and understanding, but at the end of the day it is many times more flexible and capable. It takes some learning. I find it fun Others obviously don't

João