When attempting to connect to the OBCI board the yellow led initially flashes very briefly. This brief flash occurs again after which I receive the timeout error.

http://openbci.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/350/init-timeout-retry-initialization-reload-firmware

Init timeout Verify your Serial/COM Port Power DOWN/UP your

@refurbished the new firmware helps improve the up- loadability so that the timeout issues don't happen.

Also, @biomurph, thanks for your help.  It's now compiling and able to transmit!  I just now have to contend with the timeout errors, but that seems well-documented on another thread.

Hey @abdan17 just a quick note: I get the same error on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS occasionally, and I have always been able to fix it by a) making sure the batteries are fresh in OpenBCI, and the dongle and bo

the channel count is 16, "Init timeout verify your Serial/COM Port"the channel count is 8, everything is ok

now i am working on Ubuntu 15.04, i am trying to run OpenBCI_GUI, but error says: " init timeout Verify your Serial/Com Port Power DOWN/UP your OpenBCI & USB Dongle then rentry initializa

Sometimes, I get the error "Init timeout Verify your Serial/COM Port Power DOWN/UP your OpenBCI & USB Dongle Then retry Initialization". I found the forum thread about this and I che

@biomurph Finally got the firmware to upload via mpide. Not sure what is different; it still gave me a timeout but it landed and is functional.

I'll go back to mpide. I was having the same timeout issues that spawned this whole thread in the first place, but I'll take some more swings at it.

another time and the OpenBCI GUI shows the message that a timeout has

@Sifeng , hi again.

Re-uploaded OpenBCI_32bit_SD code and it works wrong still.16 channel for start system.The error still is :Init timeout verify your serial/com port.Power doen/up your openbci&USB dongle,then r

http://openbci.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/350/init-timeout-retry-initialization-reload-firmware

However now I keep getting the error "init timeout...retry initialization" every time I try to start processing. 

The big change that we hope will fix the timeout issues is switching from avrdude to a microchip compiler-uploader toolchain.

@Sifeng , hi. I merged your question into this existing thread. Also try looking at some of the previous posts in this thread. They describe what you are seeing and some tests you can run. In that ca…

I  chosse 16 channel for start system.The error is :Init timeout verify your serial/com port.Power doen/up your openbci&USB dongle,then retry initialization.

When I tried to load that, I had a bit of trouble in that I kept getting timeout errors. Eventually, I got it to start loading, but it didn't look like it finished. However, I was able to connect the