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Unable to talk to RAK5005-O over USB at all #318

Closed joshbowyer closed 2 years ago

joshbowyer commented 2 years ago

I got the RAK5005-O working, but when I plug it into my computer via USB and try to run any command with the meshtastic python program, it always returns with a connection timed out error. I installed using pip. RAK Meshtastic firmware is the latest.

garthvh commented 2 years ago

On windows? Do you have a battery connected?

joshbowyer commented 2 years ago

Sorry, on Debian and there is a battery connected yes

garthvh commented 2 years ago

Latest being 1.2.59? Are you using a Raspberry Pi?

joshbowyer commented 2 years ago

Ill have to double check when I get home but I ran the meshtastic-updater yesterday and it said firmware is the latest. And this is not from a RPi, just my laptop

mkinney commented 2 years ago

Can you run meshtastic --info --debug and share the results? Also, did you add your user to the dialout group and re-login?

joshbowyer commented 2 years ago

I did add my user to dialout and rebooted actually; that error no longer appears. I will try that debug command in a couple hours and will report my findings.

joshbowyer commented 2 years ago

The weird thing is it looks like just this one time it did print the info, but in the subsequent times I ran the same command (with debug) it failed to do so and just hung there

edit: Also I made an error, the BOOTLOADER is up to date (meshtastic-flasher) but apparently the firmware is not (1.2.50).

joshbowyer commented 2 years ago

I wonder if this is the problem, I have not installed any driver as mentioned here https://meshtastic.org/docs/getting-started/flashing-firmware

However, my board has a RAK4630 which the documentation says is NRF, but the Linux NRF driver link is dead... do I need to install it, and if so, where can I get it?

joshbowyer commented 2 years ago

Ok, I found the corresponding git repo for that page: https://github.com/WCHSoftGroup/ch343ser_linux (WCH = wch-ih.com)

I loaded the driver and now I am able to communicate with the board using meshtastic-python.

garthvh commented 2 years ago

This driver has been in the kernel on most linux versions for a while, what distro are you running?

joshbowyer commented 2 years ago

PureOS, so maybe they stripped it out? They dont do nonfree stuff apparently...