[OpenTRV-interest] OpenTRV-interest Digest, Vol 4, Issue 5

[Alasdair Macdonald]

On 29 March 2014 10:50, Damon Hart-Davis <EMAIL ADDRESS HIDDEN> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 28 Mar 2014, at 10:25, Alasdair Macdonald <EMAIL ADDRESS HIDDEN>
> wrote:
>
>
> Next questions:
> >
> > 1. Boot text informs:
> > > ? at CLI prompt for help
> >
> > I don't seem to be able to send this command from the Arduino IDE.
> Should I be able to, or can the command be sent in a different way?
>
> How are you trying to 'send'?
>
> Put a ? in the text box on the serial monitor, wait until the monent you
> see the '>' appear (NOT the following CR!) and press the send button.  You
> only have a failry short time, may 100ms to 500ms, depending on what else
> the unit has to do on that cycle.
>
> If you can't get any response at all evening with lightning fast reflexes
> it is possible that there is a short on the RX line as we had one one other
> board in this batch so far.
>


I discovered that I also needed to set "Carriage return" in the line ending
drop-down box. Now it works.



>
> >
> > 2. wiki page states "Any time you plug in the FTDI cable or close and
> reopen the Arduino IDE serial monitor window, the board will reset and
> display the POST sequence again".
> >
> > I am NOT getting a reboot / POST by simply closing and re-opening the
> serial monitor window. Is the wiki incorrect on this point?
>
> You should.  Again it is possible that there is a board fault around the
> serial connector area.  We can follow this up if other things don't work.
>

Still can't get this to happen, with either board.



I'll keep tinkering and try to figure out what I can contribute to the
wiki. Conrad actuator due to arrive on Tuesday.
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