Hi guys! What a great forum you have here! Sorry for my first post starting with question, but I know no one who can help except you. So, I have a merlin head with simple hand control. And also PL-2303 TTL controller, which is good, as I used it for other applications before. It's set to 5V. I assembled the cable as stated here : http://www.kolor.com/forum/p57035-2010-01-07-12-19-19?pid=57035#p57035
The problem is the head is not responding, when I try to connect. No program works. No test programs, no terminal. No firmware updater. Of course I try to connect with 9600N81. Led blinks on PL-2303. Hand controller works.
Any ideas what can be wrong? I ordered FTDI Basic FT232RL FT232R Arduino (http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=13745087406), that's the closes one I can find here. But while waiting it would be nice to fix my current setup. Thank you!!!
Andrew Stephens Many different Nodal Ninja and Agnos pano heads. Merlin/Panogear mount with Papywizard on Nokia Internet tablets. Nikon D5100 and D40, Sigma 8mm f3.5 FE, Nikon 10.5mm FE, 35mm, 50mm, 18-55mm, 70-210mm. Promote control.
Yes, only wired interface in HC port. Com3=Serial2 in Papywizard (Led blinks on PL2303) I will buy the BT connection, but will take time to get here and I want to use head NOW And anyway I need a notebook to drive my camera with GBTimelapse....
Log:
2012-05-10 01:42:29,650::MainThread::DEBUG::Papywizard.l10n(): default locale=en_US 2012-05-10 01:42:29,650::MainThread::DEBUG::Papywizard.l10n(): LANGUAGE=None 2012-05-10 01:42:29,650::MainThread::DEBUG::Papywizard.l10n(): langs=['en_US', 'fr_FR', 'pl_PL', 'de_DE', 'es_ES', 'it_IT'] 2012-05-10 01:42:29,650::MainThread::DEBUG::Papywizard.l10n(): localeDir=C:\Program Files\Papywizard\share\locale 2012-05-10 01:42:29,727::MainThread::INFO::Starting Papywizard... 2012-05-10 01:42:29,743::MainThread::INFO::Loading default presets 2012-05-10 01:42:29,789::MainThread::DEBUG::Preset.__init__(): loading name='4@0 + Z + N' 2012-05-10 01:42:29,789::MainThread::DEBUG::Preset.__init__(): loading name='3@-15 + Z' 2012-05-10 01:42:29,789::MainThread::DEBUG::Preset.__init__(): loading name='6@30 + 6@-15 + N' 2012-05-10 01:42:29,805::MainThread::DEBUG::Preset.__init__(): loading name='4@30 + 4@-30' 2012-05-10 01:42:29,805::MainThread::DEBUG::Preset.__init__(): loading name='3 + 6 + 12 + 6 + 3 (28mm)' 2012-05-10 01:42:29,805::MainThread::DEBUG::Preset.__init__(): loading name='4 + 12 + 12 + 12 + 8 (32mm)' 2012-05-10 01:42:29,805::MainThread::INFO::Loading user presets 2012-05-10 01:42:29,805::MainThread::WARNING::No user presets found 2012-05-10 01:42:29,805::MainThread::DEBUG::Spy.__init__(): yaw=0.0, pitch=0.0 2012-05-10 01:42:30,444::MainThread::DEBUG::ConfigManager.__init__(): versions: dist=['1', '6', '1'], user=['1', '6', '1'] 2012-05-10 01:42:30,444::MainThread::DEBUG::ConfigManager.__init__(): user config. is up-to-date 2012-05-10 01:42:30,444::MainThread::TRACE::MainController.__onNoteBookSwitchPage() 2012-05-10 01:42:30,444::MainThread::DEBUG::MainController.__onNoteBookSwitchPage(): shooting mode set to 'preset' 2012-05-10 01:42:30,523::Publisher::INFO::Starting Publisher... 2012-05-10 01:42:30,539::Spy::INFO::Starting Spy... 2012-05-10 01:43:02,924::MainThread::INFO::Configuration saved 2012-05-10 01:43:09,023::MainThread::INFO::Connecting to real hardware... 2012-05-10 01:43:09,756::Dummy-5::EXCEPTION::Axis._sendCmd Traceback (most recent call last): File "papywizard\hardware\axis.pyo", line 235, in _sendCmd File "papywizard\hardware\serialDriver.pyo", line 111, in sendCmd IOError: Timeout while reading on serial bus 2012-05-10 01:43:09,756::Dummy-5::WARNING::Axis._sendCmd(): axis 1 can't sent command. Retrying... 2012-05-10 01:43:09,960::Dummy-5::EXCEPTION::Axis._sendCmd Traceback (most recent call last): File "papywizard\hardware\axis.pyo", line 235, in _sendCmd File "papywizard\hardware\serialDriver.pyo", line 111, in sendCmd IOError: Timeout while reading on serial bus 2012-05-10 01:43:09,960::Dummy-5::WARNING::Axis._sendCmd(): axis 1 can't sent command. Retrying... 2012-05-10 01:43:10,163::Dummy-5::EXCEPTION::Axis._sendCmd Traceback (most recent call last): File "papywizard\hardware\axis.pyo", line 235, in _sendCmd File "papywizard\hardware\serialDriver.pyo", line 111, in sendCmd IOError: Timeout while reading on serial bus 2012-05-10 01:43:10,163::Dummy-5::WARNING::Axis._sendCmd(): axis 1 can't sent command. Retrying... 2012-05-10 01:43:10,163::Dummy-5::EXCEPTION::Shooting.switchToRealHardware() Traceback (most recent call last): File "papywizard\model\shooting.pyo", line 284, in switchToRealHardware File "papywizard\hardware\head.pyo", line 93, in init File "papywizard\hardware\axis.pyo", line 251, in init File "papywizard\hardware\axis.pyo", line 242, in _sendCmd HardwareError: Axis 1 can't send command 2012-05-10 01:43:10,224::MainThread::ERROR::Can't connect to hardware Axis 1 can't send command 2012-05-10 01:43:11,957::MainThread::INFO::Go to simulation mode 2012-05-10 01:43:12,174::MainThread::EXCEPTION::Axis._sendCmd Traceback (most recent call last): File "papywizard\hardware\axis.pyo", line 235, in _sendCmd File "papywizard\hardware\serialDriver.pyo", line 111, in sendCmd IOError: Timeout while reading on serial bus 2012-05-10 01:43:12,174::MainThread::WARNING::Axis._sendCmd(): axis 1 can't sent command. Retrying... 2012-05-10 01:43:12,378::MainThread::EXCEPTION::Axis._sendCmd Traceback (most recent call last): File "papywizard\hardware\axis.pyo", line 235, in _sendCmd File "papywizard\hardware\serialDriver.pyo", line 111, in sendCmd IOError: Timeout while reading on serial bus 2012-05-10 01:43:12,378::MainThread::WARNING::Axis._sendCmd(): axis 1 can't sent command. Retrying... 2012-05-10 01:43:12,581::MainThread::EXCEPTION::Axis._sendCmd Traceback (most recent call last): File "papywizard\hardware\axis.pyo", line 235, in _sendCmd File "papywizard\hardware\serialDriver.pyo", line 111, in sendCmd IOError: Timeout while reading on serial bus 2012-05-10 01:43:12,581::MainThread::WARNING::Axis._sendCmd(): axis 1 can't sent command. Retrying... 2012-05-10 01:43:12,581::MainThread::EXCEPTION::Shooting.switchToSimulatedHardware() Traceback (most recent call last): File "papywizard\model\shooting.pyo", line 297, in switchToSimulatedHardware File "papywizard\hardware\head.pyo", line 109, in shutdown File "papywizard\hardware\axis.pyo", line 371, in stop File "papywizard\hardware\axis.pyo", line 242, in _sendCmd HardwareError: Axis 1 can't send command
Last edited by itsskin on Wed May 09, 2012 6:59 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Okay! Problem solved with new interface posted above. Thx for help!
Another question. I checked Controller firmware and got 02.0A.84 Didn't find anything about it here. Is it more recent then 020681? Can I dump it to share?
itsskin wrote:Okay! Problem solved with new interface posted above. Thx for help!?
So what was the problem?
How have you solved it?
Andrew Stephens Many different Nodal Ninja and Agnos pano heads. Merlin/Panogear mount with Papywizard on Nokia Internet tablets. Nikon D5100 and D40, Sigma 8mm f3.5 FE, Nikon 10.5mm FE, 35mm, 50mm, 18-55mm, 70-210mm. Promote control.