[PD] osx pduino: nothing works

[Derek Holzer]

Hey HC,

yes I was religious about matching Firmatas between versions. I even had 
Koray here looking over my shoulder to see if I was doing anything 
stupid. He agreed that all versions of StandardFirmata we tried were 
buggy on OSX.

We are using Arduino 18. I don't see OldStandardFirmata anywhere in the 
Pduino-0.5beta6 zip I downloaded, nor do I see a StandardFirmataV2.1 
anywhere. Are we looking at the same download? What are you referring to?

In short, we've gotten AnalogFirmata to work, but not StandardFirmata 
(too big for Atmega8) or StandardFirmataV2_0 (numerous errors). Some of 
the student projects require both Analog and Digital outputs, can you 
pls point me in the direction of something that works?

I will try changing the baudrate in Firmata V2.0 to 57600 and see what 
happens.

Best,
Derek


On 3/9/10 10:38 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
> You need to match the versions of the Firmata on the Arduino and the
> Firmata on Pd. Also, you should not use Firmata from Arduino 0017, its
> buggy. Use Arduino 0018.
>
> For ATMEGA8 using OldStandardFirmata, but before uploading, change the
> baud rate in setup() to 57600. That's the only change from Firmata V2.0
> to V2.1. V2.0 is 115200 and V2.1 is 57600. Arduino now uses 57600 for
> everything.
>
> .hc
>
> On Mar 9, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Derek Holzer wrote:
>
>> Yes proper FTDI drivers installed.
>>
>> The Analog Firmata works, however the Standard Firmata is totally broken.
>>
>> D.
>>
>> On 3/9/10 4:27 PM, Greg Pond wrote:
>>> do you have the proper ftdi drivers installed?
>>> http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm
>>>
>>> good luck.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Derek Holzer <derek at umatic.nl
>>> <mailto:derek at umatic.nl>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm in the middle of a workshop right now, and nothing I planned
>>> works. All the users on OSX cannot use the Pduino objects. They all
>>> have latest Pd-Extended 0.41.4 and latest Pduino-0.5beta6. They have
>>> all successfully loaded the Standard-FirmataV2 (the Standard-Firmata
>>> is too big for the Atmega8) to an Arduino NG w/ Atmega8.
>>>
>>> Then they open arduino-help.pd, use "devices" to determine the
>>> proper port and set the port.
>>>
>>> Then I have them test with "pinMode 13 1" followed by "digital 13
>>> 1". I see the RX LEDS flash, but the pin 13 LED does nothing. Then I
>>> open [pd DIGITAL-OUTPUT] and use that patch to flash all the digital
>>> outputs, after setting them to output mode in the main patch. Again,
>>> RX lights blink but nothing else.
>>>
>>> After that I get long strings of the following:
>>>
>>> UNKNOWN INPUT COMMAND: 8 32120
>>> [arduino] warning currently unsupported 160
>>> [arduino] warning currently unsupported 176
>>>
>>> This is consistent across every installation, whether PPC or Intel.
>>> We can't really go further with Arduino without fixing this, so I
>>> hope someone can help.
>>>
>>> In contrast, I am using Pduino04.beta2 with Pd-extended-0.39 on my
>>> machine and everything works fine. I have also been unble to run any
>>> Pduino with Pd-extended-0.41.4. Installing Pduino04.beta2 with
>>> Pd-extended-0.39 on a couple of machines of the students hasn't been
>>> an effectivbe workaroundm however ([arduino-help.pd] crashes Pd in
>>> this case).
>>>
>>> Any suggestions welcome. Is there something I totally missed here????
>>>
>>> D.
>>>
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