@jydog Glad that you got it running.

@lukasmaximus Regarding your comments about the Raspberry Pi - regarding the rate that the new model 4 Raspberry Pi's are selling, any platform like M5Stack that ignores Raspbian is taking chances of being irrelevant to a large new user base!

How come you are all so Mac/Win-centric? The local Apple specialist here in my district in Berlin last year morphed into a 1 Euro shop, and now does more business! My Raspberry Pi reseller here in Berlin tells me that within less than an hour of a new shipment of Pi 4's coming in, they're all gone.

When M5Stack claims to be open source, where's your source code so that folks can build for ARM systems? The M5Stack software seems to me to be 64-bit, although there's no warning on the tin about this. As I understand, the Raspi is not quite into the 64-bit system Linux club, but it's heading in that direction.

Yes, I can use the Arduino IDE, but then, what's the point of using M5Stack rather than my existing ESP32 development board from NodeMCU which costs only 8.50 Euros, while a M5Stack Fire just cost me over 64 Euros here in Berlin from M5Stack's German partner Conrad?

I'm sorry, but I don't see any sense in your arguments - the esp toolchain is for me confusing and overcomplicated. I can use Arduino IDE on a NodeMCU board without needing M5Stack.

@jydog Glad that you got it running.

@lukasmaximus Regarding your comments about the Raspberry Pi - regarding the rate that the new model 4 Raspberry Pi's are selling, any platform like M5Stack that ignores Raspbian is taking chances of being irrelevant to a large new user base!

How come you are all so Mac/Win-centric? The local Apple specialist here in my district in Berlin last year morphed into a 1 Euro shop, and now does more business! My Raspberry Pi reseller here in Berlin tells me that within less than an hour of a new shipment of Pi 4's coming in, they're all gone.

When M5Stack claims to be open source, where's your source code so that folks can build for ARM systems? The M5Stack software seems to me to be 64-bit, although there's no warning on the tin about this. As I understand, the Raspi is not quite into the 64-bit system Linux club, but it's heading in that direction.

Yes, I can use the Arduino IDE, but then, what's the point of using M5Stack rather than my existing ESP32 development board from NodeMCU which costs only 8.50 Euros, while a M5Stack Fire just cost me over 64 Euros here in Berlin from M5Stack's German partner Conrad?

I'm sorry, but I don't see any sense in your arguments - the esp toolchain is for me confusing and overcomplicated. I can use Arduino IDE on a NodeMCU board without needing M5Stack.

I have tried to install the M5Stack software on a few 32 bit computers, all of which complain and refuse to play ball. A 32-bit WINTAB running windows 10 and a trusty old 32 bit Linux Laptop all refused to have anything to do with M5Stack software.

It's not stated ANYWHERE, but can anyone tell me if the software is for 64-bit architecture ONLY? If so, please include this information on your web downloads page - otherwise this can lead to hours of frustration for customers.

I have just bought the Experimental Proto Board Set, and I understand that it is listed in your shop as an accessory. However, there seems to be no category for this in the forum.

It came in a cute little plastic box, with no instructions. Can you point me in the right direction?

I purchased this only a few days ago here in germany from your Partner firm Conrad, (under their own Maker Factory brand). The serial number sticker has faded badly in the 4 days since I bought it (bizzare!), but the number 0441 is still readable, if this is of any help in tracing the fault.

When I start/reset my M5Stack Fire I get an audible hissing noise. This is not the case with my M5Stack basic unit.

It's loud enough to be annoying. Is this a fault, or a feature?

Today I got the M5Camera, and after struggling with all of the confusing documentation, I got it working over a WLAN connection. The picture was clear, and I was about to breathe out after struggling with the documentation when my wife pointed out that the picture was mirrored, that is, flipped on the vertical axis. WTF!

The M55Stack "official" docs told me that I needed to install firmware, but that the only way was to use a Windows only program. Eh? In the days when the Raspberry Pi (Raspbian Linux) is selling more units than they can produce, why are you, a young startup in China, so Windows (and Mac)-centric.

M5Stack have an amazingly good concept, this advantage can be easily lost by having no real concept for proper documentation. As a platform to help people learn coding, M5Stack has many plus points (my opinion) over the Raspberry Pi, but they have recognized up front the need for good documentation, and have built a very impressive system.

An example from my experience in the last few days trying to get M5Stack products working:-

You are advising Linux users to install an outdated driver for the serial port communication. My Ubuntu 19.4 already has this built in to the kernel (in v5+ file cp210x.ko). Your linked download is for a file tested on kernel version 3 for linux, and according to the readme maybe can be built and used for kernel 4, but for kernel 5 there"s no information.

I am in Berlin, Germany, and your products are just arriving in the shops under the Maker Factory label from the electronics firm Conrad, where I bought mine. Here the M5Stack products here are relatively expensive. The documentation on the Maker Factory website is a bit out of date, but I found a video by Luke explaining how to flash the M5Camera firmware. I have your M5Burner on linux Ubuntu - and this worked fine.

Great, but now there's a lot of stray white pixels on the images, which should not be there. The images are now upside down, which has the cables coming out of the top of the unit when I reverse the mounting.

Where do I go from here?

Kind regards from Berlin

@jydog On my Ubuntu Linux desktop, the Linux version of M5Burner and UIFlow Desktop just worked out of the box. Full marks to the team at m5stack!

I unpacked the zips to convenient folders, then opened the relevant folder in a terminal window (right-click and select "open in terminal"). For M5Burner, while in the unzipped M5Burner program directory, I typed "./M5Burner" on the command line (in the the readme: "Exec "./M5Burner" in this directory"). The shell script then opened "m5burner" in the /bin directory.

An update yesterday using the built-in updater worked without a problem.

I was not expecting miracles when trying the same on the Raspberry Pi 4, but I think that I was hoping that maybe someone out there had got further than I did. The Raspbian system (newest Buster version) complained about not being able to execute a binary file ... Oh well, there"s the good old Arduino IDE.

Thank you Jimmy Lai and all the team!
Greetings from Berlin, Germany

Francis Sim

Has anyone managed to get these programs running on a Raspberry Pi?

I got an M5Stack Fire yesterday from Conrad, here in Germany, and have had no end of trouble trying to get the official software to run.

I got the Linux downloads running on my desktop machine (Ubuntu 19.4) but my Raspi just refused to open them. I'm running a regularly updated Raspbian Buster. I also had no result when trying to install these programs on a Win10 machine.

Has anyone had better luck with this? I'm happy that my Linux desktop got me up and running.