Hello!
I’m trying to communicate with a new OpenScale board for the first time and am stumped. I use FTDI serial-USB devices all the time, and checked to make sure I have the drivers working on my computers and I do. I tried hooking up my new OpenScale with attached 10kg load cell to three different Windows 10 machines and a Ubuntu computer with the same result on all of them-- a blinking blue status light on the board but no communications at all with the host computer. That is, no virtual COM port appears on the windows machines, and no "other " or “unknown” device either. Same story on Ubuntu-- no available usb device/port to talk to. As far as the OSes are concerned, there’s no device connected. Did I miss an “enable USB” jumper or something?
Hello,
Can you provide a picture of the top of the board? Also you’re just using a USB at the moment correct, not an FTDI breakout?
Double check your USB cable, you might have a power/charging only cable that has no data lines.
Thanks for responding so quickly! Suspecting the cable is a good idea, sadly I haven’t figured out a way to check it… I don’t have anything else that uses mini-USB connectors anymore! Well, I have Raspberry Pis but they only use it for power, I think. I can see copper conductors at at least four of the five pin locations in the cable’s plug end (I’m not sure about the center one).
Here’s a picture of the board and attached load cell when the blue status light is on. When plugged in it blinks on/off for roughly one second each.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/tpNda29FuhoHeqrYA
I tried a second board (I bought three, two to use in a project and one as a spare/tester) with the same result, which makes me suspect the cable even more. Will see about getting a new one.