Hydra Socket 4

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I can’t seem to find anywhere, is socket 4 supposed to be fixed? I still can’t plug anything in to it running the Feb23 update.

I can still get by for now but I think having sound & secondary OLED running that the same time would be great for the “wow” factor.

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All should work. If not, provide steps to repro please.

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OLED version 1.4.1.0
Music Module (customized from 4.1.2.0)
Gadgeteer: 2.41.0.0
Hydra: 4.1.1.0

Layout 1:
LCD, SD, DP on required sockets
Joystick socket 14
Music Module Socket 3
OLED Socket 4

Result:
“An unhandled exception of type ‘System.InvalidOperationException’ occurred in Microsoft.SPOT.Hardware.dll” - on “oledDisplay = new GTM.Seeed.OledDisplay(4);”

  • Error from Layout 1

Layout 2:
LCD, SD, DP on required sockets
Joystick socket 14
Music Module Socket 4
OLED Socket 3

Result:
An unhandled exception of type ‘System.Exception’ occurred in GTM.GHIElectronics.Music.dll

Additional information: Failed to initialize MP3 Decoder.

  • on
            if (CommandRead(SCI_VOL) != (0x0101))
                throw new Exception("Failed to initialize MP3 Decoder.");
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Narrowed it down a bit more.

Remove Music Module and OLED will work on socket 4.
Add Music Module to socket 3 (and actually connect it properly) and THEN you get the “An unhandled exception of type ‘System.InvalidOperationException’ occurred in Microsoft.SPOT.Hardware.dll” error.

And further

Move

oledDisplay = new GTM.Seeed.OledDisplay(4);

above

music = new GTM.GHIElectronics.Music(3);

and get

“An unhandled exception of type ‘System.InvalidOperationException’ occurred in Microsoft.SPOT.Hardware.dll”

on

m_SPI = new SPI(m_dataConfig);
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I think it’s an SPI issue.

MusicModule is using Hardware.SPI and OLED is using GTI.SPI in shared mode. One is probably locking out the other.

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And it works on spider?

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No idea. The Spider lives with another Skewworks developer for testing.

I’m currently re-writing the music module to use GTI.SPI shared…let you know the results.

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Yeah no joy there.