Serial Ports not showing up in the GUI
FiveFunnyThree
Berlin
I do not fully understand what the "serial-port/com list" is supposed to show in the GUI? Will it show everything connected to serial port usb/serial port, or does it a pre-sort for the dongle I have choosen?
Can you point me to the part in the code of OpenBCI_GUI where this is done? I have seen the scan_channels function in here, but that does not seem to answer my question.
My problem is that I have made my own cyton board and the serial channel does not show up in the GUI, while it shows up in custom software I'm currently developing. So the hardware connection is working. I 'think' the messages my board sends are identical to your reference, though.
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Hello Five,
It sounds like you are creating a DIY Cyton? Are you using the same RFduino setup on mainboard and dongle as Cyton? The Cyton dongle uses a particular FTDI usb serial chip, the FT231X. This has an assigned USB Vendor and Product ID. I believe the GUI code uses the USB IDs in searching for the dongle. If you are not using this FT231X chip, modify the GUI source to search for the values you are using.
I moved your post from the GUI category to Build-it-yourself. Since this is not really a GUI issue.
William
Ah that answers my question as I'm not using FT231x and the code filters for the associated vendor string in this function.
And yes I'm currently experimenting with a DIY Cyton-like board, as I have access to cheap prototyping. I use no RFduino since I want higher transmission rates and higher sampling rates.
guess I have to replace the vendor string and compile the source code myself.
How is the source code supposed to be build? I see no build instructions in the Github repro.
https://docs.openbci.com/Software/OpenBCISoftware/GUIDocs/#running-the-openbci-gui-from-the-processing-ide