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.
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.
@fonix232 I've now 'successfully' used a 128GB SD Card (SanDisk Ultra) formatted as FAT32 with the M5Paper.
I haven't tried writing files using the M5Paper, but I can read text files and jpg files using the factorytest without any problems.
@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.
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.
@kevindtimm I'm glad you've got the SD card working.
You actually have all the low-level.M5Paper hardware information closer than you think. On the back of all cores there's a colourful sticker. It's not just a pretty diagram. It's got just about all of the hardware details that you might need. If you look carefully at the list of pins for the SD card you'll find CS on pin 4!