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Have installed the IDE on a Win 7 - the Red Board will not communicate at all, Win says there is no driver needs or been found. Tried the kosher Uno - works perfectly.

The Redboard and the Uno use different drivers in Windows. You’d need the FTDI drivers for the Redboard which are in %ARDUINO INSTALL DIRECTORY%\drivers\FTDI USB Drivers. Or, there is a link to download the drivers on the Redboard product page.

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Thanks for that darrellg.

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HI All,

I’ve got the SF RB working on the PC. Next problem is why, when using the serial port to echo data input does it respond with yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy in an endless stream? I t does this before I have chance to input anything.

As for the MAC problem, which isn’t solved as I can’t use the serial port to prosomeone in a MAC shop has suggested it may be an incompatibility between my MAC OS 10.6.8 and the version of Java required by the Arduino IDE.

Regards,

M

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What are your serial port settings ?

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Hi Mee_n_Mac,

I think a bit of clarification is required on this post now. i t’s my fault for not splitting them up.

The original ‘resetting’ problem is now resolved on both the SF RB and the Arduino. Solution? upload the sketch and open the serial port window. Close the serial port window and the resetting returns.Both the boards have now been running stand alone from the Mac for several hours.

I’m so glad I can now get on with actual learning rather than fighting the config, although I suppose it could be argued that it’s all learning.

Regarding the echoing of data sometimes it works, other times it doesn’t. I seem to have to flush out the SF RB with a bare minimum sketch,

void setup() {
  // put your setup code here, to run once:

}

void loop() {
  // put your main code here, to run repeatedly: 
  
}

then load the echo sketch, but even that isn’t reliable. I’m using the following:

//Echo every character

char data; //holds incoming character

void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(9600); //Serial Port at 9600 baud
}

void loop()
{
  //Only print when data is received
  if (Serial.available() > 0)
  {
    data = Serial.read(); //read byte of data
    Serial.print(data);   //print byte of data
  }
}

From Jeremy Blums’ site.

Serial port settings are as below:

Autoscroll - ticked

No Line Ending

9600 baud

regards,

M.