I would like to be able to buy a Core or Core2 without any base or battery attached.
After buying some m5go, node and faces bottoms I already have more bases than cores. If I buy more cores I will get more bases and batteries that I do not need and they just lie around not being used.
If you sell only the top part of Core or Core2 with the main board and display, we could check the pin compatibility and match them with already purchased battery bases.
This problem seems to be caused by the esp32 2.0.5 update.
I don't think M5Stack are to blame, this was not a mandatory setting before.
After this update was installed I had the same problem with some of my M5Stack boards, but not all of them. A menu setting for erasing flash before upload or not must now be set. It seems that this menu setting must be sent to esptool, if this is not provided then esptool fails with the Address "{upload.erase_cmd}" must be a number error
There is a simple fix, if you can find your hidden arduino boards.txt file.
The path to the file will be different on Windows, Linux and OSX.
You need to add the following to boards.txt for ALL types of M5Stack/M5Stamp boards and then uploads should work again:
<board_name>.menu.EraseFlash.none=Disabled
<board_name>.menu.EraseFlash.none.upload.erase_cmd=
<board_name>.menu.EraseFlash.all=Enabled
<board_name>.menu.EraseFlash.all.upload.erase_cmd=-e
Replace <board_name> with the correct name for each type of board in the complete list. You can see what the name should be in the section for each M5Stack board.
After editing and saving boards.txt in the correct place, you need to restart the arduino IDE. You will then see in the Tools menu Erase All Flash Before Sketch Upload: Disabled/Enabled. This is the missing required setting for esptool.
Make a copy of your boards.txt before you make any edits so you can recover from any incorrect changes.
Good Luck!
I had exactly the same problem on the outlook app on android.
Luckily I also use the built-in android email app with the same account (i get everything twice), the URL worked immediately, so my email is now verified.
I'm trying a few little UIFlow tests on my core2 and I noticed that when I touch the display it always gets cleared to the background colour set in the uiflow.
I wrote a simple test program to print the current rtc time as a clock.
Here is the python:
from m5stack import *
from m5stack_ui import *
from uiflow import *
import time
screen = M5Screen()
screen.clean_screen()
screen.set_screen_bg_color(0x070707)
lasttime = None
time = None
lcd.clear()
lcd.fill(0x000000)
lcd.rect(50, 50, 50, 50, color=0xff0000)
lasttime = ''
while True:
time = rtc.printRTCtime()
if lasttime != time:
lcd.print(lasttime, 0, 0, 0x000000)
lasttime = time
lcd.print(time, 0, 0, 0xffffff)
wait_ms(500)
wait_ms(2)
If I touch the display, it gets cleared to the black background.
The red square that I draw only once disappears, so I know the display is being cleared.
When my program writes to the display again, when the time changes after one second, it updates correctly and shows the time in white on a black background.
How can I disable or change the behaviour of this 'automatic' touch display clear?
I've solved the problem myself. When I use a label the screen clear does not affect it, so only the red square disappears.
from m5stack import *
from m5stack_ui import *
from uiflow import *
import time
screen = M5Screen()
screen.clean_screen()
screen.set_screen_bg_color(0x000000)
label0 = M5Label('Text', x=0, y=0, color=0xffffff, font=FONT_MONT_26, parent=None)
lasttime = None
time = None
lcd.clear()
lcd.fill(0x000000)
lcd.rect(50, 50, 50, 50, color=0xff0000)
lasttime = ''
while True:
time = rtc.printRTCtime()
if lasttime != time:
lasttime = time
label0.set_text(str(time))
wait_ms(500)
wait_ms(2)
I suppose this has something to do with which layers on the display are being cleared by the touch? But this still seems strange default behaviour to me.
If I download the original program to the Core2 (without using a label) and run it from the app menu, any touches do not clear the display at all. If I then reset the Core2 and the app runs automatically, it then clears the display when I do a touch. What is going on?
I have the problem that I cannot currently connect to any of my devices with UIFlow from flow.m5stack.com
For example core2 and atom devices can connect to the cloud server as usual and show a green connection.
When I try to connect to a device from my browser, it just says that the connection failed, maybe your device is offline..... All of the API keys I am using are correct. I've recently updated most of my devices to version 1.7.8. and everything was working until today.
Everything works perfectly fine locally via USB.
@mwenghi I've worked out that set_checked does actually work. It changes the internal state of the checkbox from unchecked to checked, but it's not changing the visible state of the checkbox on the screen, so it doesn't appear to do anything!
If you add a set_checked_color call (in blockly it's the block set selectedColor) after your set_checked it will then show the relevant checkbox as checked in your desired color.
Have you got a bluetooth speaker?
If so, you could try using your M5Paper to send audio using a bluetooth a2dp connection to your speaker.
I found this arduino project:
https://github.com/pschatzmann/ESP32-A2DP
After making my own audio sample files, I can send audio from my M5Paper to my M5 Atom Echo (running the default factory firmware). I can also send to my other Urban Revolt bluetooth speaker, so it seems to be working correctly.
I cannot run the latest M5Burner with Ubuntu 18.04. It complains that glibc 2.28 is not found.
Unfortunately glibc 2.27 is the most up-to-date version on my system. I cannot upgrade to a newer Ubuntu.
Earlier versions of the M5Burner worked OK. I upgraded to be able to burn firmware on the latest M5 boards like M5Stamp.
This exact problem has been fixed before, see below. Can you please rebuild the M5Burner depending on earlier versions of the system libraries?
I've got a problem with M5Burner 2.2.7 on my Ubuntu mate system running on a hp laptop. The M5Burner window is too large for the display.
I can move/scroll it around to find all of the buttons and systems, but it is really annoying. I actually have to move the window using the to see the erase button and the 'X' close button! The maximise window button doesn't do anything at all, I can only minimise the window.
My full laptop display resolution is 1366 x 768 which might be non-standard but it doesn't seem too small.
Is the M5Burner display resolution fixed?
Is there any way that I can change some configuration settings for M5burner so that everything fits more comfortably on my display?
@felmue
Thanks for the info, with the bus power mode set to 0, it's all working, including RGB strips and units on ports A, B and C!
You don't need to do a custom neopixel setup as there are already RGB blocks under Hardwares, which now work with the RGB Bars on the Core2.
This problem seems to be caused by the esp32 2.0.5 update.
I don't think M5Stack are to blame, this was not a mandatory setting before.
After this update was installed I had the same problem with some of my M5Stack boards, but not all of them. A menu setting for erasing flash before upload or not must now be set. It seems that this menu setting must be sent to esptool, if this is not provided then esptool fails with the Address "{upload.erase_cmd}" must be a number error
There is a simple fix, if you can find your hidden arduino boards.txt file.
The path to the file will be different on Windows, Linux and OSX.
You need to add the following to boards.txt for ALL types of M5Stack/M5Stamp boards and then uploads should work again:
<board_name>.menu.EraseFlash.none=Disabled
<board_name>.menu.EraseFlash.none.upload.erase_cmd=
<board_name>.menu.EraseFlash.all=Enabled
<board_name>.menu.EraseFlash.all.upload.erase_cmd=-e
Replace <board_name> with the correct name for each type of board in the complete list. You can see what the name should be in the section for each M5Stack board.
After editing and saving boards.txt in the correct place, you need to restart the arduino IDE. You will then see in the Tools menu Erase All Flash Before Sketch Upload: Disabled/Enabled. This is the missing required setting for esptool.
Make a copy of your boards.txt before you make any edits so you can recover from any incorrect changes.
Good Luck!
I fixed the problem with the cam2core on the core2. So the UnitCam will work with Arduino IDE code and the core2.
It is a very simple fix:
Replace the first line #include <M5Stack.h>
with #include <M5Core2.h>
Initialising the core code on a Core2 is not the best idea!
Now it works on my Core2 showing the video stream from a UnitCam connected to PortB (pins 26, 36).
Confirmed, the UnitCam does NOT work at all on the Core2 in UIFlow or Arduino.
The Arduino UART to Core does NOT work on the Core2 - it does not boot.
I managed to fix this problem!
I will just use my UnitCam on my Cores and wait until it gets fixed for the UIFlow Core2 - if ever.
I can confirm that the UnitCam does NOT work with UIFlow 1.9.8 on a Core2.
It does not seem to be supported.
A UnitCam stream works without a problem connected to PortB with UIFlow 1.9.8 on an original Core. I have not properly tested the cloud functionality - it didn't seem to work for me. QR code for the url was never displayed.
There must be some technical reason why the UnitCam stream doesn't work on a Core2. Different UART behaviour?
However there is NO warning on the UnitCam store and doc pages that it currently does not work in UIFlow 1.9.8 on a Core2. If you only have a Core2 I don't think it will work. Luckily I have both Core2 and origjnal Cores so I could get it working.
Has anyone successfully tried a UnitCam on a Core2 with Arduino instead of UIFlow?
I cannot run the latest M5Burner with Ubuntu 18.04. It complains that glibc 2.28 is not found.
Unfortunately glibc 2.27 is the most up-to-date version on my system. I cannot upgrade to a newer Ubuntu.
Earlier versions of the M5Burner worked OK. I upgraded to be able to burn firmware on the latest M5 boards like M5Stamp.
This exact problem has been fixed before, see below. Can you please rebuild the M5Burner depending on earlier versions of the system libraries?
I've just tried using my atom tailbats with a new OLED Unit and spent a long time wondering why the tailbat grove port didn't seem to work with the OLED.
The USB power and grove connector have really bad electrical connections on my newer matrix atoms (with diffused plastic over the LEDs). This stops the pass-through grove port from working properly unless I press the atom down onto the tailbat quite hard and hold it. The USB connector for the atom power usually works fine, but the atom grove pins don't connect cleanly to the tailbat. If I press too hard then the USB power connection fails and resets the atom (obviously). This is a really bad mechanical design which doesn't use a proper grove socket, it is done with a similar 4-pin connector socket with the correct pin pitch, but it is not grove.
I have just tried a couple of older Atom Matrix cores (with clear plastic over the LEDs) and the grove connector pins on the older Matrix Atoms are very slightly longer and make a better connection. With those, the OLED shows my test animation every time. It also works with an atom lite.
This is not good as I don't know how I can make all the USB power pins and grove pin connections reliable without touching or holding anything. Both USB power and all the grove pins need to work and both of the different connectors need to be in exactly the correct position at the same time. You can't really adjust anything on the tailbat connectors, they are fixed in place. It's difficult to see how the connections could be done with 'proper' grove and USB extension cables to the battery instead of the direct dual connectors. Putting some sort of kludge board between the atom and the tailbat is also a bit of a ridiculous solution, the tailbat and pass-through grove connector should really work on any atom, every time. I could just use the built-in grove port and a USB powerbank (if I can make it stay powered-on all the time).
Anybody else have anything similar? There are some other posts here that tailbats were not working properly, I wonder if some of those problems were actually the same bad mechanical connection issue?
@felmue It was "unconnectable" for about 24 hours, which was extremely annoying. The thing was that the devices could connect to the server and showed green connections. But the UIFlow server couldn't connect back to the devices.
I didn't change anything at my end and now everything is working as before.
I was trying to test the OLED Unit because of a brightness problem and that new unit is not yet supported in the desktop (offline) UIFlow IDE, so I had to be online and connected to try things out.
When I use the OLED unit with UIFlow 1.7.8 on a m5stack atom, the display is quite dim. It looks more like black and grey, not black and white.
It doesn't have good contrast, it looks like it is not getting enough power, but maybe it's actually the display initialisation that is the problem.
When I use arduino and the same m5stack atom with the adafruit sh110x arduino library, the same OLED unit is vey bright and crisp, definitely black and white, with very good contrast.
I suspect the OLED contrast is not getting set correctly during the init.
There are no blocks in UIFlow to adjust the contrast so it cannot be changed.
In arduino I can change the contrast (setContrast) and I can make the display darker or brighter.
Is there something wrong or incomplete with the 1.3" OLED unit display initialisation in UIFlow?
It seems to be working again, my browser now gets a connection to my device. So it was a server-side problem, nothing to do with our m5stack devices, firmware or API keys.