# Arduino pro + Bluemate silver no upload

**URL:** <https://community.sparkfun.com/t/arduino-pro-bluemate-silver-no-upload/20383>\
**Category:** Arduino\
**Created:** [April 19, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/arduino-pro-bluemate-silver-no-upload/20383 "2011-04-19T16:00:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![afred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3e96dc/32.png) [@afred](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/afred)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/arduino-pro-bluemate-silver-no-upload/20383/1 "2011-04-19T16:00:15Z")

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Hello all,

I’m hoping someone can help me sort this out. I’ve been through what documentation I can find, and I’ve trolled the fora, but not found anything that helps.

I’ve got an Arduino Pro (3.3v and 5v with the same problems) with a Bluemate silver attached (six pins to six pins straight through). I’m powering them through 9V on the external power input of the Arduino. I’m using a Macbook with up to date (Snow Leopard) Mac OS X.

When I power up the Arduino the green LED blinks for a couple of seconds and stops. Bluetooth powers up. I can mate to the Bluetooth module. The serial port for the RN42 shows up in /devs. I can enter command mode on the RN42 and adjust the settings through the command line. So far, so good.

However, I cannot communicate with the Arduino (either one). I launch Arduino, select the correct port and board. Then I try to upload “blink”. The "connect light on the bluetooth lights for several seconds and I get the "programmer not responding message, at the bottom of this post (which has been post by others many times before).

Some questions that I can’t seem to answer myself:

#1 are there some settings that I need to adjust on the bluetooth to get it to talk to the Arduino?

#2 is the Arduino start up (blinking green at an increasing rate, then stopping) indicating the bootloader starting successfully?

#3 I noticed in the error message “Overriding Baud Rate : 57600” I assume this means that Arduino is trying to upload at 57600 baud. Can this be changed? Does it matter?

#4 Anything I’m missing?

Thanks

Fred

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Error message follows

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avrdude: Version 5.4-arduino, compiled on Oct 9 2007 at 11:20:31

Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, [http://www.bdmicro.com/](http://www.bdmicro.com/)

System wide configuration file is “/Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Resources/Java/hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf”

User configuration file is “/Users/XXXXX/.avrduderc”

User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping

Using Port : /dev/tty.RN42-89FB-SPP

Using Programmer : stk500v1

Overriding Baud Rate : 57600

avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]

avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]

avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]

avrdude: ser\_recv(): programmer is not responding

avrdude: stk500\_recv(): programmer is not responding

avrdude: Send: Q [51] [20]

avrdude: ser\_recv(): programmer is not responding

avrdude: stk500\_recv(): programmer is not responding

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**Author:** ![anon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anon](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/anon)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/arduino-pro-bluemate-silver-no-upload/20383/2 "2011-07-31T19:15:25Z")

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The trick is to press reset earlier than on a windows computer.

As soon as the bluetooth interface in the system control of Mac OS X switches from red to green (before the green LED is lit on the BlueMate), press the reset button.

I tried this on Mac OS X Lion.