[hpsdr] help

[Bill Tracey]

Hi Stan,

Had this setup ever worked or it has stopped 
working after a software change?   What version 
of PowerSDR (what's the data in the 
titlebar).  Have you upgraded the programming on Mercury?

If this is a fresh Mercury from TAPR it's most 
likely the issue is the  firmwawre on  Mercury 
needs to be updated. (things have evolved since 
the manufacturing run).  How to do that is called 
out in the README.txt file in 
svn://64.245.179.219/svn/repos_sdr_hpsdr/trunk/USBBlaster-Binaries

If that's not the issue, then further debugging 
is needed.  First thing I'd try would be to power 
off Ozy/Merc and then power it back on.    Open a 
command prompt and cd to the directory with 
PowerSDR.  Then run initozy11.bat > rlog.txt 
2>&1   Once that completes take a look at 
rlog.txt .. the top of it should show something like:

E:\wjtsrc\hpsdr-repos-eclispe341\PennyMerge-newSVN\bin\Release>loadFW 
0xfffe 0x0007 ozyfw-sdr1k.hex
usb_find_busses returned: 1
usb_find_devices returned: 1
ResetCPU(true).......returns 1
UploadFirmware('\ozyfw-sdr1k.hex\')......returns 742
ResetCPU(false).......returns 1
HPSDR_UploadFirmware: Processed 742 lines.

E:\wjtsrc\hpsdr-repos-eclispe341\PennyMerge-newSVN\bin\Release>msecsleep 3000

E:\wjtsrc\hpsdr-repos-eclispe341\PennyMerge-newSVN\bin\Release>loadFPGA 
0xfffe 0x0007 Ozy_Janus.rbf
usb_find_busses returned: 1
usb_find_devices returned: 1
120049 bytes transferred.
LoadFPGA succeeded!


Beyond that you'll get a bunch of "Write to I2C 
Failed" mesages -- you can ignore them   - 
they're trying to init the code on Janus and Penelope which you do not have.


Hope some of this helps .. if not come on back and we'll try again.

Cheers

Bill (kd5tfd)



At 08:03 PM 4/17/2010, Stan Creitz wrote:
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>
>I have a tapr mercury  and ozy board and the motherboard.
>I am a novice at this point.
>I have used the quick setup guide. and I finally 
>got  pwrsdr to load with no errors, but pwrsdr replies"HPSDR error"
>Error starting hpsdr hdw.  and is asks if hpsdr is connected or powered up.
>Ozy shows D12 on when power is applied.  PwrSDR 
>loads and then Ozy had D13, D9 flashing, D8 - D5 
>are lit but D4 thru D1 are  dark
>All the correct led on Mercury are on.  I only 
>have mercury and ozy on the mboard.  I'm kind of lost here.  Help.
>Thanks
>Stan Creitz, WAØCCW



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