Joey

So I'm building a device to remotely control an air conditioner. I need to detect whether the AC unit is currently on. It has a power LED that is on when the unit is on. So I'm looking for the simplest circuit that I could use to detect that state. When on, the LED is getting 10v @ about 3.5 mA.

I'm having an issue debugging my project on the Netduino. Visual Studio appears to deploy the project correctly, but if I try to start a debug session, it hangs on "The debugging target is not in an initialized state; rebooting..."

Per the advice here, I've tried flashing the board with both 4.1.06 and 4.1.1.0 Beta 1
In both cases, at the completion of the flash, MFDeploy appears to hang with the message "Executing Application". If I pull the plug on the Netduino, then check the configuration, it appears to have been deployed successfully with the correct version.
When pinging, I get "Pinging...TinyCLR"

So I've then tried again to debug, with the same results.
Pushing the reset button causes the blue light to appear for a second, but does not cause Visual Studio to proceed.

I am running a VMWare Windows XP SP3 on a Windows 7 host. I have successfully deployed via this environment in the past.

Any advice would be appreciated.

I've got myself into a state where the mini doesn't appear to be responding. I've spend a lot of time trying the suggestions on this thread: http://forums.netdui...e-v411-alpha-3/

At this point, I have performed a full erase (Connect 3.3V or 5V power to the gold ERASE pad which is next to pins 11 and 12), so this may eliminate some options.

Currently, I am using the 5v FDTI Basic module from SparkFun, with the RX/TX wired to pins 1 and 2 respectively. I've tested with powering the Netduino using either the 5v from the module and a 9v battery. Per Quiche31's suggestion, I've run "
C:\Program Files\ATMEL Corporation\SAM-BA v2.10>sam-ba_cdc.exe com3 at91sam7xc512-ek > log.txt
" which yields:

-I- Waiting ...
-I- TCL platform : Windows NT
-I- SAM-BA CDC 2.10  on : windows
-I- Retrieved arguments from command line :
-I- argv 0 : com3
-I- argv 1 : at91sam7xc512-ek
-I- argv 2 : 
-I- Connection : com3 (target(comType) = 3)
-I- Board : at91sam7xc512-ek
-I- Traces Level : 4
-I- target(handle) : fileafdf60

Is the 5v FDTI module was suitable for this? How should I go about attempting to resolve this?