XY Plotter Macos El Capitan - not working

#1

Hi, thank in advance for your help

I’m on MacosX El capitan and i can’t make it work.

PLOTTER XY V2
ORION MOTHERBOARD

I installed :

  • CH34x_Install
  • i uploaded the GCodeParser on a board using :
    Arduino 1.8.5
    Board : “Arduino Uno Wifi” (i don’t have Arduino Uno) i also try the Genuinio Uno
    Port : “dev/cu.wchusbserial1420”

I’ve got this appearing :

/Users/Elie/Downloads/XY-Plotter-2.0-master/software/GCodeParser/GCodeParser.ino: In function ‘void setup()’:
/Users/Elie/Downloads/XY-Plotter-2.0-master/software/GCodeParser/GCodeParser.ino:75:24: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ [-Wwrite-strings]
process_string(“G90”,3);//Absolute Position
^
Sketch uses 14578 bytes (45%) of program storage space. Maximum is 32256 bytes.
Global variables use 578 bytes (28%) of dynamic memory, leaving 1470 bytes for local variables. Maximum is 2048 bytes.

But at the end it says uploading done.

Then i’m starting mDraw 1.2.2
Steppers are on HHH

I’m selecting XY
Then select dev/cu.wchusbserial1420 port
Then Connect

It says
/dev/tty.wchusbserial1420
open success
init
(noise of the motor)

Then nothing.
If i press Pen up/Pen Down/Double click on the panel to move the stepper, nothing happen except IDLE become BUSY

If i’m trying to update firmware in mDraw, it says
/dev/tty.wchusbserial1420 open success
init
port closed
download failed

Then i’m trying to use GRemote.pde
Steppers are on HHL
The software runs but nothing happens when i’m opening the “fish example.cnc”

  1. I just try to upload a program on the arduino Basics / blink and it works perfectly.

The plug is the original one (3A - 12Volt) with US-EUR adaptor.
I can’t here the noise of motors when i turn the board on, …

Did i miss something ?

Thanks a lot

#2

Hi StudioY,

There is no need to use Gremote on XY plotter. Normally, you can upgrade firmware and control the XY plotter with mDraw software directly.

For the issue that it always failed while update firmware, did you install the correct adrduino driver for Mac in this link?
Please install it again have a try.

You can also try delete the current mDraw software, download it again have a try from this link.

If you still can’t upload firmware successfully on XY, please check if there is other software opened and capture the serial port of the XY. Kindly close all the other software have a try.

#3

Allright, i will try this.
Super messy all the software version, build, …

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