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Yes, it is Visual Basic. I use version 5. I'm a lot further ahead with commands now but I still see some of this behaviour. Suspect it is a timing thing while reading the acknowledgement. I have tried a delay() sub just after outputting to RoboClaw and before the input of the response and have varie...

Using IONmotion to check connections I find that a pair of wires connected to S3-gnd and S3-I/O are capable of making the status indicator for S3 go red when the other ends of the wires are touched together. Exactly as I expected it would. Transfer the pair of wires to S4 or S5 and nothing happens. ...

UPDATE - The issues I had been having with my RoboClaw seem to have gone away and the CRC16 software mentioned above is now online and working well so far. Run the software with starting number of '0' as coded. That code wants a command button and three text boxes but you folks will figure it out. T...

Hi acidtech and thank you for your very full response. It has been a very confusing and frustrating time but I can report a breakthrough and reconnection to my RoboClaw. I will step through your reply with notes to round out the picture best I can. The button swap has been in place since the day I r...

Further work done to date. I remembered that on my RoboClaw 2x 15a that the MODE and LIPO buttons function back to front. When IONmotion was working I noticed a function to swap those over but I did not do that. With that in mind I pressed on the LIPO button while powering up and voila the led's sta...

Thanks for that info - I will work through it with interest. I have found a piece of code that can duplicate the same values as the CRC calculation tool you referred me to. This after building three small systems from web page examples and testing them. The code uses a look up table and I was scepti...

Update to above. I was still able to access roboclaw from my old PC with my motion control software. Apparently the firmware did not upgrade at all. The symptoms were that the stat1 led flickered as it does when there is something going on. The IONmotion application failed to connect but it did reco...

Yes I upgraded - have pretty much lost contact with RoboClaw. Cannot do a bootstrap load - IONmotion sits there locked up and no response. Need to use taskmaster to kill it every time. Port seems ok. So what happens next?? I don't know. Think I have a task for acidtech here. BTW I find the search ca...

Continued from replies to Major Software Release This thread relates to the CRC16 code example on page 36 of the new manual. Thanks for the link on that reply - that will be very useful. Quoted here for continuity. http://depa.usst.edu.cn/chenjq/www2/software/crc/CRC_Javascript/CRCcalculation.htm Se...

Great to see some of that stuff available now. I code my own routines in Visual Basic - available libraries not useful to me I think. (advice?) Would appreciate two things. Thing 1 PLEASE provide a line of data that shows exactly what is being sent for a typical command. I suggest a format something...