BernardG

There is no problem, in fact. It was my own dumbness, forgetting to cross RX and TX, which was precluding it to work. As long as one does not try to use the properties Length and Position, everything is just fine.

Thanks, Bernard

Hum, looking on MSDN I find this for Length
https://msdn.microso...(v=vs.102).aspx
and for Position

https://msdn.microso...(v=vs.102).aspx

So, does that mean that I am sh*#&t out of luck with 4.3 and need to go back to a previous version (for now)
Just looking, same for 4.2. 

Hum, I see that 4.1 and 4.0 does not have these properties, so it must be working.

Any other idea/workaround?

Did someone use SerialPort with 4.3?

Thanks,

Bernard
 

Thanks Chris, he is alive and well! I re-installed everything with SAM-BA first, then MFDeploy. Very cool, I need it to test small parts of my larger CNC project, before merging, and was afraid to not be able to use it anymore.

I am a happy camper now, thanks!

Bernard

Hi Bernard,

Your board will probably survive the 5V erase. But it's not in bootloader mode.

Do you have Atmel SAM-BA installed? When you plug the board in, does it show up as an Atmel MCU in Device Manager?

Chris

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your answer. Yes, I have it. It looks like it sees it as "at91sam7x512-ek". And it read "stuff" from memory.

Bernard

Great job Bernard, I never thought about making the program internationally safe. So I'm glad you found the trouble.

Make sense, Darrin, no worries! It's just that this kind of difficulty is far from being obvious!

I will also need to look at inches versus millimeters; I saw there is a GCode command to switch between the 2, which is good, but I have to make it do "something", which is another story.... :-)

Anyway, thanks for your code and support, it's a fantastic help to get into Netduino CNC.