GHI Electronics NETMF SDK 2015 R1

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We are excited to announce the release of the GHI Electronics NETMF SDK 2015 R1. We have spent many months making both major and minor updates to provide a very stable and user friendly SDK. These updates include but are not limited to; added G30, G80, G120E firmware, added product pin mappings to GHI.Pins, many fixes and improvements to G400 firmware, added PulseFeedback and reading/writing device configuration, along with improvements to the cellular radio module driver and several small bug fixes.

There are a few improvements that have not made their way into this 2015 R1 SDK. These will be added to the 2015 R2 release, scheduled for this coming November. A list of coming updates can be found at https://www.ghielectronics.com/docs/325/forthcoming-changes.

In this SDK we also include the 4.1 and 4.2 SDKs, however, please note that it is not recommended to use these SDKs nor are they officially supported.

SDK: https://www.ghielectronics.com/support/netmf/sdk/38/ghi-electronics-netmf-sdk-2015-r1

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Yoohoo GHI :clap: :clap:

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Try now, I accidentally only made it visible to employees, sorry about the confusion.

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Now I can see it. :slight_smile:

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You spend like half a year releasing betas for R1 and now you schedule R2 in two months :open_mouth: This tinybooter update nightmare is never going to end…

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@ Simon from Vilnius - R2 is totally optional and up to you, but R1 is a must have. The linked document shows what will likely be in R2.

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Add CDC over USB to G30. Ideal for Scratch on BrainPad.

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I did that just for you, I wanted to make sure you had something to gossip about! :whistle:

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You will get a preview much sooner than then. We have it working already.

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@ Gary @ Gus you guys have been rocking, software and hardware releases by the bucket!!! Its very clear that summer vacations were cancelled this year at GHI.

Thanks!!!

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[em]Improved Hub AP5 PWM generation[/em].

Improved it how? Does it have a greater frequency range?

[em]Added support for rotating the DisplayN18.[/em]

Woohoo! 90 degree increments, or arbitrary? :smiley:

[em]Improved DistanceUS3 and Music module reliability.[/em]

I thought the DIstanceUS3 Module was no longer supported… is it in 4.3 now?

[em]Improved Fez Narwhal image recognition functions [/em]

Does it recognize faces correctly now?

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@ mtylerjr -

All discontinued modules were re-added to the SDK, but remain unsupported. There were a few small fixes we made to those two modules. See https://bitbucket.org/ghi_elect/gadgeteer/diff/Modules/GHIElectronics/DistanceUS3/DistanceUS3_43/DistanceUS3_43.cs?diff2=3eee13425f9a&at=master and https://bitbucket.org/ghi_elect/gadgeteer/diff/Modules/GHIElectronics/Music/Music_43/Music_43.cs?diff2=dde694e1e9b2&at=master

The DisplayN18 supports rotation in 90 degree increments only.

Hub AP5 PWM generation was improved by using more of the available clock sources. See https://bitbucket.org/ghi_elect/gadgeteer/diff/Modules/GHIElectronics/HubAP5/HubAP5_43/HubAP5_43.cs?diff2=9e874d001883&at=master

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Music module got discontinued? That’s surprising. I hope there’s another module coming to take it’s place.

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I would like just to clarify G400 SDK versions.

SDK 2015 R1 G400 versions are:
4.3.7.10 Firmware
4.3.7.7 Loader

last SDK G400 pre-release version were the same(if I am not wrong):
4.3.7.10 Firmware
4.3.7.7 Loader

Does it mean there is no change from last SDK pre-release, where the same versions were used?
So does it mean that it is not necessary to update G400 boards previously updated to last SDK pre-release?

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@ mhstr - Correct. This release just changed the name from 2015 R1 Pre-Release 4 to 2015 R1 and combined the release notes. No firmware or other changes are present.

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Can’t see anything in the release notes but I assume this has the fix for PPP that you discovered when not using the cellular modem, ie, other modems (SIM5320)?

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@ Dave McLaughlin - the fix is scheduled for R2. See the link got planned updates please.

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My bad. I missed that link.

November is a long way off for this project. :frowning:

I hope I can try and stall at least the PPP part until then. I can do SMS for the time being.

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I installed the preview just last week, and today I had to uninstall it to update to the R1. Funny bad timing.

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Do I need to update my devices to use this new SDK?