Hello,
I’m brand new to this whole Proffie thing and have been watching tons of videos and such trying to learn. The main issue is I’m on a mac and I can’t even get Arduino or webOS to see my Proffie board. I bought the recommended micro usb DATA cable but my MacBook only has usb c so I have to use a usb A adapter. I also tried another usb dongle and had no luck. Thinking that the adapters might be the issue, I searched on amazon for a micro usb to usb c data cable. It will be here tomorrow. But I don’t want to accidentally fry my board.
I have the Korbanth Dark Saber which says it has Proffie 3.9 (I think that’s the board firmware?)
I downloaded Arduino IDE 2.3.4 (MacOS intel)
as well as ProffieOS 7.1.4
I followed instructions to paste a url in the additional boards manager url in the Arduino settings.
I’m unsure if this installed the appropriate drivers. I don’t know if Mac needs drivers.
And I downloaded sublime text to read my config file.
It seems all my sound fonts are from Fett263 but they are OS6 versions.
I’m interested in utilizing his config helper tool to upgrade the styles and take advantage of OS7.
You might have programming issues, but frying your board is unlikely in this step.
I"ve been using this cable and it’s pretty solid:
3.9 is the board verision, as opposed to say a 2.2 It’s a hardware identifier number.
Sweet! Go into the boards manager and you should now be able to select the proffieboard v 3.9 and install the plug in.
From a non-programmer perspective, the whole “drivers” thing is on PC/Windows. Mac users like me have other issues, like SD formatting with the disk utility is not good. Use this instead:
Sound founts are just that, a set of sounds. You then create a style in Fett’s library (or anywhere) that will be used with that font. So you have OS6 styles with your fonts as a series of presets. (preset=style+font)
Recreating styles in OS7 may take some trial and error, but is worth it for all of the new functionality.
Make sure you open arduino by using proffieOS. Install the plug in in boards manager. Select your port and go to “get board info” to see if you are hooked up
OK, somethings not right. When I said earlier that I followed instructions to paste a url in the additional boards manager url in the Arduino settings, I pasted straight from the plugin page on GitHub under step 3: git clone GitHub - profezzorn/arduino-proffieboard profezzorn/stm32l4
I realize now that that’s not really a url as it has git clone before it and the profezzorn/stm32l4 after it.
Anyway when I try to delete it from the manager url in the settings of Arduino and restart Arduino, it reappears. There is also a notification box on the bottom right that with a stalled progress bar at around 60% that says:
Downloading index: git clone GitHub - profezzorn/arduino-proffieboard profezzorn/stm32l4
Did I paste the wrong thing into it? Why won’t it clear when I paste something new and then restart the app?
You made it to github, so you’re on the right track. You’ll notice that in the ReadMe section (I’ve learn to really read those) there’s an instruction to go to the Proffie OS Documentation
Ah yes, the good old read me files. Thanks for the proper link. Unfortunately, something is wrong with Arduino. I’ve uninstalled it twice even with CleanMyMac uninstaller and when I redownload and reinstall and open up the settings the bar url is still there. When I copy and paste the good link nothing happens. And when I open up the settings again, the bad link is still there. I think I might have to get on the Arduino forms and ask. Maybe there are some preference files hidden somewhere that CleanMyMac didn’t get.
Wait, that’s fine at first.
By nothing happens do you mean right away, or after you leave the menu, open the boards manger and search or select for Proffie?
One more question: what happens if instead of opening arduino directly, you open ProffieOS? That will open arduino with the OS active. You might be able to set up from there.
You should be able to fix it by moving or renaming your arduino15 directory.
On linux this is in $HOME/.arduino15, and I suspect it’s the same on Mac.
All the preferences, and all the installed modules lives in arduino15, so all of that should go away, but nothing important (like sketches, or config files) is stored there.
OK I found two Arduino folders in macOS that my uninstaller did not trash. one is called Arduino in user home/Library. The other is in user home/Library/Application Application Support and it’s called arduino-ide. I trashed both folders and the application and redownloaded everything and same thing happened. The bad url was there. Then I realized it may have written something to ProffieOS so I trashed everything including ProffieOS and redownloaded all again and the bad URL was there still.
But this time when I pasted the good link and just waited I got these errors:
Downloading packages
arduino:arduinoOTA@1.3.0
Failed to install platform: ‘arduino:avr:1.8.6’.
Error: 1 CANCELLED: Call cancelled
Failed to install library: ‘Arduino_BuiltIn:1.0.0’.
Error: 14 UNAVAILABLE: No connection established
I also booted up from ProffieOS and same thing happened.
Yes, and there’s one in the Application support folder.
OK, something just happened. After I opened it up via ProfieOS, I quit and opened it up via Arduino and now the board manager is full of boards to install. However, the search is broken. When I type nothing gets searched. I scrolled through all the boards and say things like Arduino AVR Boards, Arduino ESP32 Boards… etc. Nothing about Proffie.
There is also a stalled progress bar saying: Downloading index: package_index.tar.bz2
OK, I have an update. Something was really screwed up. I was working on my MacBook which is an intel. I have newer iMac that is an M1. So I downloaded everything on the fresh computer and not surprisingly there was no url in there. So I pasted the good url and it all worked. The search function works too. I must have really done something to the other computer. So I downloaded the ProffieBoard plugin.
Question: I have the proffie 3.9 board in my saber but the dowload options for the driver is 3.6 and 4.6. That’s probably versions of the plugins and nothing to do with my 3.9 board right? So I’m guessing I should download the 4.6 plugin.
Next, I’ll try to follow Fett’s instructions to update my Proffie board.
I don’t know what the hell happened on the other computer and why it was holding on the bad URL.
If you get stuck you can start a new topic thread. The more organized we keep things the easier it is for us to get/give help. Glad you’re up and running!
