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Old versions of VESC Tool

Submitted by TheFallen on Thu, 2018-07-05 19:47

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Is there somewhere I can get old versions of VESC Tool? Specifically SW v0.83? I've got a new HW build that's currently running FW v3.30 but I don't want to upgrade the FW and the current VESC Tool SW v0.94 is refusing to connect properly.

Is there a particular reason as to why the VESC Tool can't connect? This is really going to be an issue as more people take the VESC firmware and make custom PCBs because I can guarantee that the config in the default firmware will be wrong.

Cannot get any PPM signals from Arduino. Or is it just the VESC tool?

Submitted by MaxMaker1 on Thu, 2018-06-21 23:06

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I am trying for days now to get my remote to throttle the motor. The remote is paired to an Arduino and that outputs the PPM signal. I know this part works because I connected  a servo instead of the VESC and that works flawless. But when I connect the VESC, nothing happens. There are no values that I can read from the app, and it also doesn´t start the motor. I connected GND and Signal from the VESC to GND and the PPM output pin from the Arduino. There are 10k Ohm resistors in both lines to avoid any current from going through.

Adding HM-10 Compatibility with Small Changes to Code

Submitted by Jfriesen on Sat, 2018-06-09 00:45

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Hello! I've been playing with a forked version of the vesc-tool and just found an easy way to add HM-10 compatibility alongside the NRF chip which is currently supported. The NRF chip is superior since it can operate at 115200 Baud and I find the HM-10 is stable only to 19200 Baud. I'd make this a pull request, but code is forked and now head is a few commits in front, also the changes are minimal so I'll just outline here. The key thing I found that made this easy was an AT command which creates adds a second characteristic to the HM-10 service UUID.

How to access VESC error codes in the new VESC tool

Submitted by berno3 on Tue, 2018-06-05 08:47

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Hi everyone,

I apologize if this subject has been addressed before but I was wondering where do I go to read the fault or error codes of my VESC in the new VESC Tool? 

I have been riding my e-board for about a total of two weeks now and all of a sudden my motor will not spin when I pull my remotes throttle. The VESC is flashing a red LED three times every time I pull the throttle and from what I have looked up online it seems there is some fault code that my VESC is producing and thus my VESC is stopping the motor from running.

Inappropriate ioctl

Submitted by Roger Wolff on Sat, 2018-06-02 17:38

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I am working on my motor controller.... Suddenly I get "inappropriate ioctl for device"  when pointing vesc_tool at my VESC device. I strace-ed vesc tool and: 

open("/dev/ttyACM0", O_RDWR|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC) = 13
fcntl(13, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)          = 0
ioctl(13, TIOCEXCL)                     = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device)

...
ioctl(13, TCGETS, 0x7ffc165712a0)       = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
 

Trying to connect over USB, but new 6.4 connects and disconnects a few seconds later.

Submitted by MaxMaker1 on Thu, 2018-05-24 16:15

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I tried this on a MAC and a PC with VESC 0.94. It connects to both, but disconnects about 5 seconds later. The blue LED turns off too. 

The Tool displays this message for a second or so: "Der E/A-Vorgang wurde wegen eines Threadendes oder einer Anwendungsanforderung abgebrochen."

                                   "The E/A process was aborted due to a thread end or an application requirement. "
 

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