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Problems talking to CC3200 Launchpad with Energia

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I've spent several hours trying to communicate with the above controller using Energia but without success. I'm really hoping someone will take pity on me and offer some ideas!

 

The problem I think is with the drivers, or lack of them. I downloaded the driver zip as recommended by Github (EZ430-UART.zip) and unzipped them. If I plug the CC3200 into the USB port Windows tries to install the drivers but when I direct the driver installation wizard to the unzipped files it seems to think they are not relevant and so fails. If I open Device Manager then the CC3200 is showing up as USB<->JTAG/SWD but with a query over it as there are no installed drivers. I wonder if that is telling me something, I would have thought I really needed a COM link not a JTAG link (?). I've tried this on a 32 bit machine and a 64 bit machine - same results.

 

I have a project waiting to go online using WiFi and this is really frustrating. I get the feeling it's something quite simple but I can't seem to see it. I've checked all the PCB links against the TI User Guide and can't see any problem.

  • in reply to janisalnis

    I thought I'd have another try with CCStudio and have installed it with the two recommended

    Apps but when I try to import an example project it complains with

     

      Error: No build-tools are currently installed for ISA family 'ARM'!

     

    Any idea what I might be missing?

  • in reply to BigG

    Thanks, yes I put a request on the Energia forum, I'll see what transpires.

    You comment about Leonardo's is noted - I hope I don't have driver issues but I'll find out soon enough!

     

    When I do get my project working - with whatever hardware - I'll put a more positive blog up. My project is a beehive monitor, all sensors working on an Arduino Uno, just need the web link!

     

    cheers

     

    Adendum

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    Have now had it confirmed (Energia forum)  that the V2 bootloader is not supported by Energia. So I'll be getting another unit, hopefully it will be to current release levels.

  • in reply to Former Member

    Here is the screen dump of my cc3200 uploading blink:

     

    Opening \\.\COM73

    Getting storage list

    Bootloader Version: 3

    Silicon version ES1.32

    Bootloader version is 2, 0, 3, 2

    It's a CC3101 device: PG1.32

    BlockSize is 4096, number of blocks is 64

    erasing 1 blocks starting from  4

    Switch to NWP bootloader complete

    Silicon version ES1.32

    Bootloader version is 2, 0, 3, 4

    BlockSize is 4096, number of blocks is 16

    erasing 12 blocks starting from  0

    erasing file "/sys/mcuimg.bin"

    deleting file "/sys/mcuimg.bin"

    erase file completed

    Downloading file "/sys/mcuimg.bin" with size 4128

    ..Download complete

     

    I have Bootloader V3 while yours is Bootloader V2.

     

    Somehow you need to upgrade. Suggest you use the Energia forum for guidance.

     

    I checked out the Sweet pea MCU. I see it based off Leonardo. I always seem to get USB driver issues with Leonardo's.

  • I use CC3200 with Energia with 3 PCs.

     

    On one PC I have to press and hold down reset button and release it only when Energia starts upload. Otherwice it would give time out error.

    It has happened to me before with some Arduino boards before too.

     

    Have you succeeded to upload some example from CCStudio?

  • in reply to BigG

    Many thanks for getting back, much appreciated.

     

    Sadly I think I'm at a dead end. I've just installed the CCS Uniflash, and managed to download Servicepack_1.0.0.1.1.bin into the CS3200LP (see below). It seemed to work fine and verified the code. But going back onto Energia I get precisely the same failure, same bootloader version now as before.

     

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    If you have any ideas I'd appreciate them but I guess I'll have to try to bounce it onto TI. Who will no doubt tell me to use CCS. Which is the only avenue left but it's a bit of a steep learning curve so I'll leave it for another day. I've been two days on this and got nowhere :-(

     

    Due to get a Sweetpea controller from Sweden next week, an Arduino with extra embedded C3000 chip. Hopefully I'll have better luck with that.

     

    Cheers

    Geo