Panel Due instruction manual?

ScotY · 2 Mar 2017, 02:38

Ah, I see. I've read the firmware updating procedure and am a bit concerned I'll screw something up.

ScotY · 2 Mar 2017, 02:49

This is what I don't understand, particularly the portion in bold text.

Use bossac to program the board. Under Windows, open a command prompt and use this command:
bossac.exe –port=COM9 -e -w -v -b PanelDueFirmware.bin
Replace COM9 in this command by the COM port number you found, and PanelDueFirmware.bin by the path to your downloaded firmware file. Note: this is the same command line used to upload firmware to the Duet, except that the port name and firmware file name are different; also the -R command used to reset the Duet after programming does not work with the SAM3S processor used on the PanelDue.

elmoret · 3 Feb 2017, 02:59

Instead of "PanelDueFirmware.bin", it would say something like C:/path/to/firmware/PanelDueFirmware.bin (or whatever).

If you just put the .bin in the same folder as bossac.exe, you won't need to change anything other than the COM port.

bossac just needs to know where to find the .bin file you're trying to flash, that's all.

ScotY · 2 Mar 2017, 02:59

I've typed bossac.exe (with nothing else) at the command prompt and it says it's not a recognized command or program. I take this to mean I don't have bossac installed even though I have updated the Duet Wifi before.

While trying to download the bossac program, I'm assuming I want to download one of the binary files? There are 5 files and I'm not sure which one is appropriate. I'm on Windows 10.

If someone could tell me which to download, that would be incredibly helpful. And also how to modify the path to your downloaded firmware file, as mentioned in the post above?

Thanks!

ScotY · 2 Mar 2017, 03:01

Hey Tim,
Thanks for the reply! I'm thinking somehow maybe I don't have the bossac program on my computer. Searching the program files…don't see anything.

elmoret · 2 Mar 2017, 03:26

Duet Wifi firmware can be updated without bossac.

https://github.com/dc42/RepRapFirmware/tree/dev/Tools/Windows

Get bossac from the link above.

https://github.com/dc42/PanelDue/tree/master/Release

Get the correct display size firmware from the link above.

Put the two files in the same folder, navigate to that folder in the command prompt, then:

bossac.exe –port=COM9 -e -w -v -b PanelDueFirmware.bin

except instead of COM9 do whatever com port is correct for your system, and instead of PanelDueFirmware.bin do the name of the file you downloaded.

ScotY · 2 Mar 2017, 03:30

Thanks, Tim. I'll give it a try this evening.

elmoret · 2 Mar 2017, 03:31

You could also use bossa, that's what I use to flash the PanelDues and it is nice in that it is a GUI instead of command line interface.

ScotY · 3 Feb 2017, 05:12

I tried to download the Bossa program but couldn't figure out which one to use. I looked here:
https://github.com/shumatech/BOSSA/releases

Got the Panel Due updated…now to try and see if it works.

Thanks for the help!

ScotY · 3 Feb 2017, 05:15

Well, it works and I'm using v 1.15c as that is the most recent version I found. Wish I had made a note of what version I had before…maybe I didn't change a thing. There is still no standby temperature box.

dc42 · 2 Mar 2017, 11:59

I thought I put the bed standby temperature in 1.15c but maybe I was wrong and it's in the 1.16 version that I will soon release as a beta. I'm just waiting for some help with translations of the captions and messages to different languages before I release it.

The BOSSA releases page has changed. There is a .tgz file for the Windows release, which if you extract it contains just bossac.exe, but no GUI version there at present.