Might have bricked my Omega2+, can't connect via serial
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Followed these instructions to get my pi3 set up to connect via serial:
https://hallard.me/enable-serial-port-on-raspberry-pi/
While the omega2 led would blink in extremely rapid fashion while connected to the TX/RX0 or TX/RX1 ports, it wouldn't connect, most of the time I got a 'port busy' or similar message from the pi terminal.Should I try ordering something like this?: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014PBYER4
Hopefully I'm not just shouting into the void here, fingers crossed someone smarter than me in this community (there are many of you
) can help me figure this out.
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@cusackph said in Might have bricked my Omega2+, can't connect via serial:
Should I try ordering something like this?: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014PBYER4
Hopefully I'm not just shouting into the void here, fingers crossed someone smarter than me in this community (there are many of you ) can help me figure this out.Yup, CP2102- and CP2104-based adapters work fine and peachy with the Omega2. I have a bunch of CH340G-based ones too, and they have trouble working with it.
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Great, ordered! Will be here on Monday. Thank you! Gonna take a break from these things for the weekend, submitted a ticket re: the mini dock's reset button not working as that seems to be pretty important.
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I'v got myself
TTL COM PC-PL2303HXrecently, its a TTL UART - USB converter. Works well with Ubuntu and Omega.
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Fixed! The usb-serial adapter linked above showed up today. Steps for those curious or who haven't done this before (like me :)):
- Plugged usb-serial adapter into Macbook Pro
- Installed the driver for the Omega2+ (already had this installed but for those who don't: https://docs.onion.io/omega2-docs/connecting-to-the-omega-terminal.html#connecting-to-the-omega-terminal-serial)
- Set up screen on OSX using Terminal (screen bash, screen /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART 115200)
- Connected the adapter to the Arduino dock serial ports
- Plugged in power to Arduino dock w/ reset held
- Restored via usb drive (downloaded latest firmware from repo, named it omega2.bin, put on root of FAT32 formatted flash drive).
Thank you @WereCatf & @Zogg-Baubas for replying!
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@cusackph You're welcome, just glad you got it going!
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@cusackph This probably makes me sound like a total n00b but how did you connect the Omega to your USB adapter?
I am guessing you plugged the USB into your computer. Then wires with pins on each end (don't know the official name) to connect the middle two USB adapter wires to the TX and RX holes in your arduino? I don't have the arduino adapter so I'm trying to figure out how to do this with the expansion board. The expansion board has TX+/- and RX+/-.
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@Marty-Mickelson No worries, this is my first time working with this sort of thing too. I connected ground to ground, TX on the USB adapter to RX0 on the Arduino Dock 2, RX on the USB adapter to TX0 on the Arduino Dock 2. I didn't worry about the power pins at all. The Expansion Dock has GPIO ports for TX1/RX1, I don't know if they'll work for this but I can test when I get home.
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@cusackph You rock. I installed again and it was listed. I did the steps and voila! I'm back in action. Well, I'm back to where I was when the console wouldn't show any apps after restarting. But at least now I can troubleshoot something besides a paperweight.
Thanks a ton!
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A noob here too ) I have ordered this adapter : http://www.banggood.com/CJMCU-CP2102-USB-To-TTLSerial-Module-UART-STC-Downloader-p-970993.html
Now I notice it says RX1 and TX0 on it. Will it work for the Omega 2+?
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@Anders-Ă–ster said in Might have bricked my Omega2+, can't connect via serial:
Now I notice it says RX1 and TX0 on it. Will it work for the Omega 2+?
It actually says "RXI" and "TXO", not "RX1" and "TX0" -- they're letters, not numbers; the "I" and "O" just stand for input and output. And yes, that dongle will work just fine.
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@WereCatf Great, thanks.
