I just received my first proffie saber core from LGT, not the highest quality I know, but I’m on a budget. The saber was working fine and then I plugged it into my PC to try the proffie workbench. That did not work so I changed the USB type in IDE to “Serial+mass storage+webusb” since then, my saber will not ignite or respond at all. I’ve done the boot&reset dance a few times and now the saber is recognized by IDE and my computer as a proffieboard, and even connects to the workbench, but the workbench is not able to load any tracks or presets, and the controls do nothing. I also cannot use the IDE serial monitor to command the saber “on” either. I’m not sure what the problem is and any help would be greatly appreciated, as I cannot find a similar situation out there. TIA
Have removed the sd card to see if it’s corrupted? When using mass storage you need to dismount the SD card before flashing the board this can cause corruption of the SD card. Remove the battery or flick the Killswitch off. Remove the SD card add insert it into computer.
Changing the USB type doesn’t actually do anything unless you hit “upload”.
Did you upload?
Yes I forgot to mention that I did upload after that, which is when the saber went unresponsive
I did not remove the SD when I flashed the board, but I just removed it and inserted it into my PC and it reads just fine so I don’t think it’s corrupted
You don’t have to physically remove it when flashing the board, just dismount it from the system tray when you have mass storage selected,
gotcha, that makes more sense, my other saber is CFX so this is all very new to me. After reinserting the SD, the saber is still unresponsive even though it is recognized by IDE
The workbench connects to the saber in some capacity as it brings up the home page for the controls and such, but it’s stuck on “waiting to list presets” and “waiting to list tracks” the battery percentage also is not shown and none of the controls work
What was the purpose of your flashing it was you adding fonts or updating the OS? Did you use the config file provided on the SD card?
I actually might have gotten my terminology wrong. A recap of events was that I initially wanted to see how the workbench works, but I needed to update the USB type to webusb in order for that to work, so I went into IDE, changed the USB type and hit upload, after that the saber has not worked. Since then I have done the Boot/Reset dance and uploaded from IDE successfully but still no response from the saber. When trying to use the config file that is on the sd card in proffieOS, IDE can’t find the file, even though everything is spelled correctly, my assumption is because the file is named “sd config” instead of just “config” and the space is causing issues. So I have not been able to reupload the OS to the saber, which might be the problem
Did u make a copy the config file from the sd card and paste it into the config folder within the proffieOS folder, the “sd config” in an lgt sd card is a folder, inside that are the config files you need to use just the .h file, 32 or 36 depending on the blade length
always always hit compile (tick) button to check for errors before uploading to the saber
I did that about 4 times, and re-downloaded proffieOS just as many, and now suddenly it works! Not sure what changed or how, but it is functioning like normal now!