Setup help

[Tigwin]

Hello, I bought the components and am excited to see if I can get this working.

This is what I did so far:

• Assemble the hardware.
• Plug the M4 to my PC.
• Double click to enable debug
• Upload adafruit-circuitpython-matrixportal_m4-en_US-7.3.3.uf2
• CIRCUITPY drive appears on my desktop
• uploaded code.py to root folder
• uploaded secrets.py to root folder, after changing wifi name and pass
• Entered 28.021682,27.887032,-82.553315,-82.310081 to bounds box (trying to draw around Tampa International Airport for testing, no idea if I got the cords correct)

Unplug and plug back in the M4.

It has a green light on the rear, but the display is black. I don't know what it's doing. Any way to debug what's happening, or did I miss a step somewhere?

Thanks!

[smartbutnot]

Sounds like you might have missed adding the libraries? https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-matrixportal-m4/circuitpython-setup

In any case, you can use a serial connection to see what errors are being produced, see the bottom of the read me file.

[Tigwin]

Ah, you're right, I downloaded the bundle but didn't upload it because I misread this comment:

The libaries it needs are I think all part of the recommended prep above, but for info they are:

I thought that meant the uf2 file contained it.

So I grabbed adafruit-circuitpython-bundle-8.x-mpy-20230120.zip and copied the lib/ folder to the lib/ folder on the CIRCUITPY drive.

Once files were uploaded, I restarted the device. The light now shines blue (didn't before).

Now it works!

Thank you.... I had this sitting on my desk for a few weeks and didn't proceed because I thought the uf2 files was some kind of mac software (based on the screenshots) and the download links all seemed to not have executables I could run. I downloaded Arduino and some other stuff I didn't have to.

[Tigwin]

All fixed