Project - G400 HDR - Gadgeteer Mainboard

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The new G400HDR Gadgeteer Mainboard driver is now available. It supports SDK version 4.2.11.0 with Gadgeteer Core 2.43.800.0.

The installation project has also been updated to support WiX version 3.7

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I have updated the G400D Mainboard driver to support the latest GHI Firmware (NETMF and Gadgeteer Package 2013 R3)

Find it on codeshare:
https://www.ghielectronics.com/community/codeshare/entry/739

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Has anyone played around with this using the RGB sockets for GPIO?

I had an incident with my Cerberus yesterday, may he rest in peace. So I swapped out the Cerb for the G400, being that theyā€™re such similar devices, and that Iā€™ve hardly ever used my G400. In my code I allocate a socket for my own IO use, I have 3 buttons and a relay that I trigger from it.


            MultiIO = GT.Socket.GetSocket(1, true, null, "Multi");
            btn1_Engage_Rly = new InputPort(MultiIO.ReservePin(Gadgeteer.Socket.Pin.Three, null), true, Port.ResistorMode.PullUp);

All works as expected on compilation. On deployment however, none of my button presses were working !

So I play around a littleā€¦ by moving my breakout connector I can see that what is physically marked ā€œSocket 3ā€ reacts when I use the above code for Socket 1 and vice-versa.

I canā€™t remember seeing anything that talked about the silkscreen being wrong, but this did come from the beta pool of devices, so I assume that Iā€™ve just missed something.

Thanks again to Taylorza as this made swapping in the device a breeze into my Gadgeteer project.

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@ Brett - I have confirmed the issue and reviewed the pin mappings. It seems that the socket 1 and 3 are mapped in reverse. I will fix it now and test it, but I need to test both with and without a display. I will post here as soon as the fix is up, hopefully the next 15-20 min.

The strange thing is that I tested those sockets with a display originally, and would have expected the colors to be incorrect if they where mapped incorrectly. I must have missed somethingā€¦

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@ Brett - I have uploaded a new version of the mainboard driver with the correction for socket 1 and 3. Please let me know if you have any other issues.

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Mate, love your work. This now works as youā€™d expect, socket 1 is socket 1.

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@ Brett - Thank you for the complement and thanks for reporting the issue so that I had the opportunity to take a look and improve the mainboard driver.