avrdude

[zoomzoomluke]

Hi,

First and foremost - Great work on this excellent distro.

I'm not exactly an expert at anything so have been mudling through to try and build an embedded home automation system.

I started off with PiCorePlayer which is great, just a few too many tweaks tho so I decided to go back to basics - im a bit of a control freak.

Anyhow, I have got python and various 3rd party modules up and running and have got a good stable platform with my cloud-based control system linked to a python "node" on PCL and finally directing instruction to an atmega328p to read sensors, control RF, etc etc.

Now, I really would like to be able to update the MCU firmware "over the air" so to speak and for this I would like to use avrdude as a standalone package.

Now I have tried manually installing it, which after loading libusb-compat seems to allow it to run ok.

However I am getting the following error:

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$ avrdude -C /etc/avrdude.conf -p atmega328p -P /dev/ttyAMA0 -c arduino -b 57600 -D -U flash:w:aiopi.hex:i
avrdude: error at line 610 of /etc/avrdude.conf: pin must be in the range 1-255
Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction or do me a massive favour and make a TCZ for me?

I don't need hand holding but some kind of guidance would be great.

TIA

Luke

update: I'm on 5.1.rc3 btw. Helps to give you all the right info

[Rich]

Hi zoomzoomluke
The first thing I would do is see what's on line 610 in  /etc/avrdude.conf

[bmarkus]

Yes, share avrdude.conf with us

[bmarkus]

BTW, a friend of mine is using a modified avrdude on Raspberry with SPI interface, code is here:

https://github.com/kcuzner/avrdude

You can see what he did here (in Hungarian, but you can understand it using an online translator, or contact author):

http://forum.xham.org/index.php?topic=183.0

[zoomzoomluke]

Yes, share avrdude.conf with us

The avrdude.conf is extracted from the deb file here:

http://project-downloads.drogon.net/gertboard/avrdude_5.10-4_armel.deb
from this project: https://projects.drogon.net/raspberry-pi/gertboard/arduino-ide-installation-isp/

It doesnt appear as though line 610 has an relation to the reported error:

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606: programmer
607:   id    = "gpio";
608:   desc  = "Use sysfs interface to bitbang GPIO lines";
609:   type  = gpio;
610:   reset = 8;
611:   sck   = 11;
612:   mosi  = 10;
613:   miso  = 9; 
614:  ;

I will take a look at the code posted...

I really was hoping to avoid building from source as i wanted to keep tcl as clean as possible and don't have a build environment set up on my mac yet.

Maybe i'm over complicating things?

[zoomzoomluke]

Turns out I don't need the SPI modified version....

So trying to install the vanilla armel version...

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/avrdude

and i get more cryptic errors:

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avrdude: error at /etc/avrdude.conf:696: must specify page_size for paged memory

[zoomzoomluke]

right, a bit of progress

avrdude depends on libc6 also, which again is not in the repo atm

so i extracted libc6 from libc6_2.11.3-4_armel.deb and dumped the output to /

well, avrdude now works... but with a bit of a negative side effect

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tc@aiopi-core:~$ avrdude -C /etc/avrdude.conf -p atmega328p -P /dev/ttyAMA0 -c arduino -b 57600 -D -U flash:w:aiopi.hex:i

avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions

Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.00s

avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e950f
avrdude: reading input file "aiopi.hex"
avrdude: can't open input file aiopi.hex: No such file or directory
avrdude: write to file 'aiopi.hex' failed

avrdude: safemode: Fuses OK

avrdude done.  Thank you.

tc@aiopi-core:~$ ls
Segmentation fault
obviously i really screwed up somewhere

if someone could really kindly package libc6 it would be really really appreciated since it's got so many files i wouldn't know where to start with regards to making a custom package.

Luke

[bmarkus]

avrdude depends on libc6 also, which again is not in the repo atm

It is not in the repo, it is part of the system. There is

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/lib/libc.so.6
In fact running an alien binary you may expect enything and no guarranty it works du missing or different dependencies, locations, etc. Better to have application compiled in the native target os.

It compiles just fine in piCore, I can add a version to repo for testing if you are interested.

[zoomzoomluke]

see told you i don't know what i'm doing!

that would explain why no complaint of missing lib when running avrdude

if you wouldnt mind adding a native ver of avrdude to repo that would be amazing   not sure i got the skills to compile and package it myself especially as i dont have a cross compiler set up and am not in a position to install make on my target image.

[bmarkus]

Will add to the repo both native 6.0.1 and the SPI fork

[zoomzoomluke]

Will add to the repo both native 6.0.1 and the SPI fork

Thank you

[bmarkus]

avrdude 6.0.1 added to repo. Don't forget to copy /usr/local/etc/avrdude.conf.sample to /usr/local/etc/avrdude and edit according to your wish, and of cource add to your backup.

Let us know the result.

It is the original version, the RPi SPI version will come.

[zoomzoomluke]

Let us know the result.

Working perfect, thank you!

[bmarkus]

Thanks for the feedback!

[bmarkus]

avrdude-spi.tcz added to repo. It is a fork of with Raspberry Pi SPI support.