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Propeller ASC+ not found when using BST

varnonvarnon Posts: 184
edited 2014-03-22 04:47 in Propeller 1
Hello all,

I recently picked up a Propeller ASC+ to play with. I thought it might be fun to have a test prop with an MCP3208 already attached. Unfortunately, BST (on a Mac OS X 10.9.1) doesn't seem to detect it. The detect propeller command results in the message "No Propeller Found." I'm surprised by this as I haven't had any problems with Parallax's official boards, or various forms of the Propeller Platform USB (Gadget Gangster, DNA, Express). The ASC+ itself seems to work fine. I have had no trouble programing it from a PC at school using Propeller Tool.


Does anybody have any suggestions? I thought I would open it up to the board instead of just emailing Martin Hodge as it might be a BST issue not an ASC+ issue and others might also encounter this problem.


Thanks.

Comments

  • Mike GreenMike Green Posts: 23,101
    edited 2014-01-03 17:13
    It's neither a BST issue nor an ASC+ issue. They work fine together most of the time. For whatever reason, my ASC worked fine with BST on my Mac back before Mavericks. I haven't had much luck using BST on Mavericks and I normally use SimpleIDE with either BSTC or OpenSpin now that that's the standard. Give that a try. If there's some feature of BST that you need and is not in OpenSpin, use BSTC as the SimpleIDE compiler.
  • Martin HodgeMartin Hodge Posts: 1,246
    edited 2014-01-03 20:13
    The ASC+ should appear to the computer as a standard "COM" port (or whatever the Mac equivalent is). My guess would be there is some incompatibility with the DTR reset / timing.
  • varnonvarnon Posts: 184
    edited 2014-03-22 04:47
    Update:
    I tried a few things based on the previous comments.

    The ASC+ works fine with SimpleIDE on Mac OSX 10.9.2 when loading C or C++ programs. It also works well when loading Spin programs. (SimpleIDE somehow "lost" the Blank Simple Spin project files since I last used it so I had to create new blank files and find the right place for them.) I tested DRT reset signals with a loader delay of 0 and a loader delay of 1. Both loader delays worked fine.

    After successfully programing the ASC+ with SimpleIDE, I tried BST one more time, and now it identifies the ASC+ fine. I even switched back and forth between a few different propellers and I never had any problems.

    I'm not sure what the problems/inconsistencies are, but I thought I would update the thread in case someone else encounters this issue.
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