[OpenTRV-interest] Tinkering kits

[John Denning]

Dear all,

Just reporting in to say that I've successfully got one of my two tinkering
boards up and running and have uploaded the latest code to it. I've used a
Windows rather than a Linux machine because that's what I had available at
the time but it was all straight forward once I picked the correct COM
port. More work on this will have to wait for the Easter holidays (I'm a
teacher drowning in reports at the moment!) but I'm excited to see this
working and looking forward to getting stuck in - I won't have had so much
fun since plugging Lego robots into my BBC model B as a boy!

John.


On 23 March 2014 18:12, Damon Hart-Davis <EMAIL ADDRESS HIDDEN> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm just getting the tinkering kits ready to send out tomorrow.
>
>
> I have loaded up the latest code, beta_17, which will also be going to
> another trial participant's home tomorrow.  You can see that code, eg to
> check out from SourceForge and load into the Arduino IDE:
>
> svn+ssh://
> EMAIL ADDRESS HIDDEN/p/opentrv/code-0/trunk/Arduino/snapshots/20140323-r2736-V0p2-Arduino-REV2-beta17-boiler-bypass-timing
>
> Loading the code verifies for me that the FTDI serial/USB connection is
> working.
>
> For fiddling with the code, eg adjusting and it or just looking at its
> output on the Arduino serial monitor you may want to look here:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/p/opentrv/wiki/Arduino/
>
> in particular at the section "Ubuntu, Arduino IDE and installing the
> latest release of the controller software".
>
> Even if you're not using Ubuntu the main points that matter are editing
> the boards.txt file (wherever it is in your install) and getting the
> bootloader .hex file in place, and setting the serial monitor to 4800 baud.
>
> Even if you don't want to fiddle with the code, the last of those lets you
> interact with the just-human-compatible CLI to change settings via an FTDI
> USB cable, dump stats and so on.
>
> You may also want to look at the latest code under:
>
> svn+ssh://YOURID@svn.code.sf.net/p/opentrv/code-0/trunk/Arduino/V0p2_Main
>
>
> I have not soldered on the Big Red Button (that cycles between FROST, WARM
> and BAKE modes); solder to it's normally-open contacts which are the
> near-centre lug and the one furtehr from it, marked 'C'.
>
>
> Have fun!
>
> Rgds
>
> Damon
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