RoboSavvy Forum Robosavvy Forum: The largest online community of Humanoid Robot Builders 2014-04-23T21:15:13+01:00 http://forum.robosavvy.com/feed.php?f=5&t=14019 2014-04-23T21:15:13+01:00 2014-04-23T21:15:13+01:00 http://forum.robosavvy.com/viewtopic.php?t=14019&p=43201#p43201 <![CDATA[Nooby, please be gentle]]>
I have recently bought a Bioloid GP, it wasn't new but all looks OK as far as I can tell.

Anyway I am starting to tinker with it now and wondered if someone could help guide me through the terminal connection process as I am running into problems.

I am planning on fitting my own Bluetooth Module which I have already, but I am initially testing things out with a 3v USB serial lead that I have.

Anyway, I am connecting to my com port from my PC at 57600, and when initiailly switching on the CM-530 I have the green "mode" LED flashing. At this point if I type v (lower case vee) I get a CRLF, then a LF and then {[CM-530:1.1977]}. All seems good I guess at this point.

I then type M (upper case M) and the CM-530 goes into managed mode and transmits some data. I could see anything in the transmitted data so I used a hex serial capture program and it appears to be transmitting mostly a load of nulls.

The only bit of data at the start looks like this:

00 21 21 08 08 21 21 08 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Followed by lots of nulls.

If I then try typing help or dump, I get nothing.

I am running the latest firmware on the CM-530, but I am puzzled as to what is going on here.

Can anybody shine some light on this for me please?

Thanks

Gary.

Statistics: Posted by GizmoB73 — Wed Apr 23, 2014 9:15 pm

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