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Open source driver for accessing raw data from the Emotiv EPOC EEG headset
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Intermittent Dongle Connection Issue #165

Closed warrenarea closed 8 years ago

warrenarea commented 8 years ago

I've mentioned this issue in the past, and because the issue corrects itself, makes it hard to recreate.

Whenever I go without using the headset for a few months, and get a decent charge on it, and turn it on with emokit.

It starts working for a handful of times.

Then i noticed it gets really intermittent and drops packets, then emokit just stops receiving packets entirely.

The only way I can get it to work again, is to open up Emotiv Control Panel 2.0 ECP v1.0 doesnt seem to have any effect.

The "ECP 2.0" switches rapidly between a few states,
indicating that the battery meter isn't detected, then the wireless isn't detected, then it receives a Status: OK. it does that cycle a few times, and then after that, emokit seems to work flawlessly again.

i did have a similar issue once, where apparently the USB had been slightly bent and the plastic housing was rubbing up against a capacitor, causing it to lose its connection... but i fixed that issue, and i've seen it do this kind of thing in the past before.

its not really an issue for me, but perhaps if anyone else has a similar experience, they might try running Emotiv Control Panel 2.0 and see if it resolves it for them.

ghost commented 8 years ago

Adding this to a wiki page or file linked to the readme might be good.

ghost commented 8 years ago

Made a wiki page, closing issue. Will make the wiki pretty later, added your name to the bottom.

warrenarea commented 8 years ago

https://github.com/CymatiCorp/CyKit/blob/master/FAQ.md

you are welcome to use the FAQ i put together for CyKit, most of the information is either taken directly from the emotiv website, or from some forum articles from gmac. so you can be sure that most of it is pretty accurate.

you may have to make some modifications to the FAQ to take out a few CyKit related questions, but shouldn't take but a minute, and has some useful resources/questions.

warrenarea commented 8 years ago

you're also welcome to use this graphic, if you want to. http://cymaticorp.com/edu/emokit.png

ghost commented 8 years ago

Thanks!