A little help please.

[sittinguphigh]

This happened when I tried to down load pickit-3 programming ver 1.0.
It would down load without putting a all files.
Then this error message came up.
It gave a choice to stop or bypass the error message.

Is this normal.

Have to go take care of business be back in a couple hours.

Thanks

Mort

[rdebolt]

If you have already flashed your SSC and Etd then you should not nee to load the Pic 3 Program again. look in you program files on your start menu. For Microchip and see if the Pic3 program is in there.

[sittinguphigh]

Yes it flashed.
I will reprogram the etherdongle again.

[sittinguphigh]

Programmed etherdongle again.
Programmed SSC again.
No blinky.

[sittinguphigh]

OK. Got a error message.

[sjb]

Make sure you have the blue jumper still on the SSC (like photo below)

then plug it into your hub.

Plug the hub into the black connector on dongle, power hub on.


plug in your etherdongle to the computer (power it on) and then start the Lynx Smart String Utility (like photo Below) on you computer.

Select all the settings you need for instance start channel, etherdongle the amount of nodes.

Press "Transmit", once you press transmit your strings should be blinking. Now press "Stop"

Now unplug SSC from hub and put jumper like 3rd photo down.

Plug SSC back into hub and you should now be able to use Xlights to have blinky.

[rdebolt]

OK. Got a error message.

You got that error because you don't have ether dongle set at the top of the Smart String Utility page. You NO NOT want the usb selected.

[sittinguphigh]

Got it. I thought I had to do something with the USB SERIAL PORT PROPERTIES?

[rdebolt]

Got it. I thought I had to do something with the USB SERIAL PORT PROPERTIES?

You don't want to mess with any of that. You are not using anything through a usb port!  Leave all of that stuff alone.

[sittinguphigh]

OK. No blinky. I recheck all three boards solder connections. Found two not done. Soldered them in.
Still no blinky. The connects were on the input of the etherdongle silver connector.

[rdebolt]

When you plug the Etd into your computer do the have lights where the Cat5 goes into the Etd? As you are looking at it with the one on the right should be on solid and the one on the left should be blinking a little.

[sittinguphigh]

Both lights are on. None are blinking.

[rdebolt]

Where does the Cat5 cable go from your Etd?

[sittinguphigh]

Into the 4 port passive hub.
I read that that there are update firmware ver for the SSC and SSC utility.
Maybe I don't have the right ones.

[sjb]

Hey Mort

I see the wire that you have used to do the mod for Ver3 SSC, but i can not tell by your photo's. Did you cut the trace on the SSC board?

You also replaced the EXE file for the utility program for version 3, Correct???

Steve