Arduino Dock guide is up

[Russ Terrell]

I'm getting a failure when I try to enter the password to upload the sketch. Error message is ash: merge-sketch-with-bootloader.lua: not found. I flashed the board and I thought is said it was ok. Ideas?

Thanks,
Russ

[Tchernobil]

I try to burn the bootloader, all my connections seems OK but I always have this message:

root@onion:~# sh /usr/bin/arduino-dock flash bootloader
Flashing bootloader...
avrdude: AVR device not responding
avrdude: initialization failed, rc=-1
Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
this check.

I double check connections, everything is fine. What can I do?

[Maurice]

@Lazar-Demin just tried flashing the dock and it worked for one of the docks one of the docks continued to display the error.

For the dock that did work:
I wired the dock as you suggested with 3.3v and GND wired to the dock.

Function SPI MISO -> Mini Dock and Omega Pin 1 -> Arduino Dock Pin 12

Function SPI SCK -> Mini Dock and Omega Pin 6 -> Arduino Dock Pin 13

Function SPI RESET -> Mini Dock and Omega Pin 7 -> Arduino Dock Pin Reset

Function SPI MOSI -> Mini Dock and Omega Pin 19 -> Arduino Dock Pin 11

Function VCC -> Mini Dock and Omega Pin 3.3V -> Arduino Dock Pin 3.3V

Function GND -> Mini Dock and Omega Pin GND -> Arduino Dock Pin GND

Here are some photos of the wiring.

I then powered the minidock which and ran the script on the Omega via ssh terminal.

So for me. One of the Arduino Docks works but but it looks like the other one does accept the bootloader (might be fried.)

[Lazar Demin]

@Russ-Terrell Yeah, that message will show up but the flash should still work. Try enabling Upload verbosity in the Arduino IDE settings and posting the message.

[Lazar Demin]

@Tchernobil Are you using an Expansion Dock? Can you post some photos of the setup?

[Lazar Demin]

@Maurice glad that it worked and sorry to hear that one of the Docks is non-responsive

[Tchernobil]

I use the Espansion Dock. You can see a video of my setup here:
http://www.grafigne.com/files/wires_arduinodock.mp4
How can I test if my arduino dock is defective?

[Lazar Demin]

@Tchernobil Can you try following the 'Using the Omega + Expansion Dock with the Arduino Dock ICSP Header' procedure from the Arduino Dock Initial Setup Guide?

Let me know how it goes.

[Tchernobil]

It's working!
Thank you very much. Now I can use Arduino IDE to flash a sketch to the Arduino Dock.

[Lazar Demin]

@Tchernobil awesome! glad to hear it worked
@Maurice can you try following the same procedure on your non-cooperative Dock? (Might take a little more wire wrangling with the Mini Dock)

[Russ Terrell]

I still can't get the password to work. I reflashed the board using ICSP connector. Looks like it flashed ok.

I was going to do the resync, but I'm not seeing blink2.ino.hex in the temp folder, only blink2.cpp.hex as listed in the Verbose list.

X:\arduino-1.6.5\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/bin/avr-objcopy -O ihex -j .eeprom --set-section-flags=.eeprom=alloc,load --no-change-warnings --change-section-lma .eeprom=0 D:\Users\Russ\AppData\Local\Temp\build8175480600231811290.tmp/blink2.cpp.elf D:\Users\Russ\AppData\Local\Temp\build8175480600231811290.tmp/blink2.cpp.eep
X:\arduino-1.6.5\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/bin/avr-objcopy -O ihex -R .eeprom D:\Users\Russ\AppData\Local\Temp\build8175480600231811290.tmp/blink2.cpp.elf D:\Users\Russ\AppData\Local\Temp\build8175480600231811290.tmp/blink2.cpp.hex

Russ

[Lazar Demin]

@Russ-Terrell Yeah, that should be good as well, the name might depend on the Arduino IDE version.

Which password are you using in the Arduino IDE? It should be your Omega password which is onioneer by default

[Russ Terrell]

That's the one I'm using.

Russ

[Maurice]

@Lazar-Demin just tested it using the ICSP header procedure and it appears to work.

Although I suspect that I may have fried the board during one of my tests last week (I plugged in a power source directly on the header pins and this may have fried one of the components between pins 7 and 8. Maybe too much voltage :s ). Note to self don't try plugging in a 9V battery on the header pins lol.

The reason I suspect there's like a fried capacitor or something is because the Omega on the Dock doesn't power up when both GND and 3.3v is connected to the Arduino Dock. Unplugging either GND or 3.3v allows the Omega and minidock to power up. (This issue did not occur on the other Arduino Dock which was flashed successfully in the previous posts).

So in this ICSP header test I only kept the GND plugged in and left the 3.3v out while plugging in a micro USB into the Arduino Dock.

Here's a few pictures of the dock and mini dock wired up without power.

[Maurice]

Also just tested the uploading of a sketch via WiFi through the Omega using Arduino IDE 1.66 and it works. The Blink2 example sketch works flawlessly on the working Arduino Dock.

[Russ Terrell]

My dock is now working. I upgraded to 1.6.6 and loaded the library manually. I was able to compile and run the Blink2 example.

[Marcelo Gaio]

@Russ-Terrell I got the same error message "ash: merge-sketch-with-bootloader.lua: not found"
After that, it goes on writing the flash....
Is this error message normal??

[Marcelo Gaio]

@Russ-Terrell NEVERMIND! I just read https://community.onion.io/topic/443/resolved-arduino-bootloader-issue
This is a normal issue. Just disregard the LUA error message...