Find your USB Dongle's Serial/COM port
Scipio
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@wjcroft On my System Control Panel, there appears 'SERIAL CONNECT' instead of 'SERIAL/COM PORT'. Under 'SERIAL CONNECT' appears 'SERIAL DATA', 'CHANNEL COUNT (8)' and finally 'WRITE TO SD CARD?'. There appears no REFRESH LIST button. In other words, I cannot find my USB Dongle's Windows port name ('COM#'). Kindly render assistance. A Session can be started and packets of data result from running my finger along the electrode pins at the top of my board.
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wjcroft Hi! Having installed the FTDI CDI Device Driver for the OpenBCI dongle and witnessed it emit a constant blue LED but no red LED blink, I am at a loss as to why there is nothing in the OpenBCI documentation to instruct one on how to launch the OpenBCI GUI System Control Panel. Could you please be of assistance here?
@wjcroft Having installed the FTDI CDI Device Driver for the OpenBCI dongle, it fails to emit a red LED blink despite emitting a constant blue LED. What is the reason for this and its adverse effect?
The red LED flickers during packet stream transmission. In other words, when the dongle is receiving data from the mainboard. It will not be on unless you have started the data stream from Cyton.
@Scipio, hi.
Not sure what you are referring to as "CDI Device Driver". The FTDI driver is called a VCP, virtual com port.
https://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm
In general, up to date Windows 10 installations will already have a working driver, but if you have issues, the driver on the VCP page should address it.
I assume you are following the Getting Started page,
https://docs.openbci.com/docs/01GettingStarted/01-Boards/CytonGS
Regards, William
Hi @Scipio,
Please focus your comments on this single thread and don't keep opening new threads for each comment on this same issue.
What happens when you follow the exact instructions here,
https://docs.openbci.com/docs/01GettingStarted/01-Boards/CytonGS
IF you can start a session and see response from touching the pins, that means everything is fine. Don't worry if the Getting Started page screen shots look slightly different than what you see. If you can see response to your touching the pins that means everything is working fine.
If you further want to check the COM ports, open the Device Manager and look under that category.
https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+10+device+manager
William