Gus and the entire team: Again, as always, delivered as promised. What a standard of service and R&D.
Many thanks.
Hi
Canāt update the Hydra through the GUI: [quote]-- Log ā
Connecting to deviceā¦ Fail.
Please wait for trying to reconnectā¦
Cannot see Hydra over serial port. Try to restart computer and reset Hydra
or visit GHI Electronics ā Where Hardware Meets Software for manual update.[/quote]
Ping doesnāt see the Hydra eitherā¦
Led in On, Windows does its sounds when inserting and removing the USB cable.
MFDEPLOY automatically displays FEZ Hydra_Gadgeteer in the USB channel, but then says when pinging [quote]Pingingā¦ Error: No response from device[/quote]
Have I cooked the Hydra?
HELP!!
@ Gus
This is related to premium library (spider) or all the boards are included ?
@ Gabriel3 -
To make sure Hydra Updater work, make sure that:
- If Hydra is running firmware, you can ping it by MFDeploy
- If Hydra was erased, make sure you can see a new COM port in Device Manager.
- If you are in tinymode, you have to use SD or wire to erase its flash first, then you will see a new COM port in Device Manager. We will improve this case so users donāt need SD / wire anymore, but now Hydra Updater only supports the first and second case.
What should you do if you can not Ping while Hydra firmware is running? There are some ways but I usually use 2 ways below:
- You can Disable āGHI.NET MicroFramework USB Debugging interfaceā, ā disconnect Hydra ā wait few seconds ā re-connect Hydra ā Enable āGHI.NET MicroFramework USB Debugging interfaceā.
- Or: Power off Hydra ā restart your PC, try to ping again. :))
What should you do if you did click on Update button of Hydra Updater but it reports that failed and you also donāt see COM port on Device Manager? - There is a Help link, inside that Help link, there are 3 options, you can chose one of them.
With current version Hydra Updater that you are using, you can update from 4.1 up to 4.2 or 4.2 to 4.2. If you are in 4.2 and want to go back 4.1, you should use update manually.
Dat, Iām lost (and starting to sweat)ā¦
[quote]- If Hydra is running firmware, you can ping it by MFDeploy[/quote]MFDeployās ping fails
[quote]- If Hydra was erased, make sure you can see a new COM port in Device Manager.[/quote]Cannot see a new COM in Device Manager
[quote]- If you are in tinymode, you have to use SD or wire to erase its flash first, then you will see a new COM port in Device Manager. We will improve this case so users donāt need SD / wire anymore, but now Hydra Updater only supports the first and second case.[/quote]I believe Iām not in Tinymode (havenāt doen anything active to get there.
[quote]What should you do if you can not Ping while Hydra firmware is running? There are some ways but I usually use 2 ways below:
- You can Disable āGHI.NET MicroFramework USB Debugging interfaceā, ā disconnect Hydra ā wait few seconds ā re-connect Hydra ā Enable āGHI.NET MicroFramework USB Debugging interfaceā.
[/quote]Done that, to no avail
[quote]- Or: Power off Hydra ā restart your PC, try to ping again. :))[/quote]A gaziliion times, with no solution.
[quote]What should you do if you did click on Update button of Hydra Updater but it reports that failed and you also donāt see COM port on Device Manager?
- There is a Help link, inside that Help link, there are 3 options, you can chose one of them.[/quote]Worked. You are a KING.
[quote]With current version Hydra Updater that you are using, you can update from 4.1 up to 4.2 or 4.2 to 4.2. If you are in 4.2 and want to go back 4.1, you should use update manually.[/quote]Trying to go 4.1 ā 4.2
Funny. when I had 4.1 software there was no problemā¦
Yes, when you had 4.1 there should no problem,. It just has problem if you had 4.2 then come back 4.1, I think.
Anyway, does it work now?
You can always do manual update, which is linked from the updater error message.
Dat, Gus - thanks.
So now Iām in the IDE, looking to start diving into 4.2, and THEREāS NO SEEED MODULES!
There were in the 4.1 releaseā¦ How can I use NetMF 4,2, GHIās SDK 4.2 (beta, I know) and the accelerometer or gyro?
Thanks
Correct. Look at release notes 
we never said they are there. We emails seeed about updating their drivers with 4.2 but no answer so far. Please contact them to help speed this up.
Indeed. Going to send an email to SEEED right away and post in their (not so active) forum.
By the way, in order to use the ENC28 with 4.2 beta:
- Is it supported? Any drivers?
- Concerning the Hydra firmware - still have to do the āswitch the firmwareā game?
Thanks
If youāre feeling adventurous, the source for the Seeed 4.1 drivers is available at http://gadgeteer.codeplex.com/. You could download the source for the desired driver, and convert it for 4.2. Depending on which module, it might be straightforward enough to be worthwhile, rather than waiting for the updated drivers.
@ GUS - I misspoke. The community over there is thriving.
Anyways, I left a post (http://www.seeedstudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3397) and here is the (not so encouraging) answer another community member got (http://www.seeedstudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3378).
I shouldnāt have bot all the sensor modules. Their are now great (extremely light) paper weights.
@ devhammer - adventurous - yes. Know what the #@ $#@ $@ Iām doing - not so much. See Gusās answers to my elementary school questions. These guys practically are holding my hand:[quote=āGusā][quote=āGabriel3ā]How do I turn on the computer? I have no idea! IāM LOST! And the button I keep pressing does this āSKEEESHā sound and then all I had displayed dissappears! HELP![/quote]@ Gabriel - To turn on the computer, press the āonā key, itās the one which has the label āonā. And the button you have been pressing is on the toilet. Stop doing that.[/quote]
Iād appreciate GHIās stand on the ENC28 questions above.
Thanks
Give Seeed a chance. I donāt blame them. I have tried to write a driver for one of my modules on 4.2. I wasted a full day trying to figure out why comms was wonky, turns out that I2C on the Cerberus threw in an extra byte that didnāt come from the module. When I tried with last weeks removed Hydra 4.2, I2C didnāt work at all. It is hard to write drivers when you donāt know if it is your driver messing up or the underlying hardwareā¦
So iām sure that they will have drivers out within a week after 4.2 goes stableā¦
Hi,
Iāve been trying with a VB Project and using the FEZ Spider.
I found one issue with the Auto-generated resources code: Resources.Designer.vb
It wraps the code in Namespace {Project Name} which is what is expected in C#, but breaks the code in VB. A work around is to just remove the Namespace from the auto generated file and it will compile code that tries to use things like:
_statBitmap.DrawText("HP", Resources.GetFont(Resources.FontResources.tyrannt), Colors.Yellow, 2, 38)
can i use 4.2 with the fez starterskit ? i an used to vb.net
Which fez starterkit?
sorry the FEZ Spider Starter Kit
Yep, you can, if you donāt need Ethernet or Wifiā¦
okay thank you