STM32?

[nagelc]

Just got a blue-pill, RFM69 node working. It was a bit of a learning curve moving from Atmega.

• Cheap J-Link: Never got it working. Cheap ST-Link: Worked
• Arduino (and VisualMicro) uploaded blink sketch with ST-Link: no problems
• Uploaded the USB bootloader using the ST-Link: no problems
• Took a while to figure out I didn't have the dfu driver loaded (Windows 10), but after that no problems using the usb
• MySensors security personalizer: no problems.
• Mock MySensors node: no problems. Talked to my gateway. Uses RFM69 encryption.

Seems like this is the Nano of the future, but without needing to level shift for 3.3V. I'm looking forward to making some real blue pill nodes and gateways.

[Brasletti]

Does anybody get the Serial Gateway with RS485 working? I can't get debug messages on serial console.

[NeverDie]

@alowhum You may want to consider the nRF5 series instead.

[Brasletti]

OK it is working with Hardware Serial. But still no debug message on startup. Maybe it's because the switching of the usb mode.

Is it possible to wait 2sec before starting up the gateway on stm32 boards?

[alowhum]

@neverdie Thanks! I ordered one, they look very interesting.

[freynder]

@freynder said in STM32?:

@freynder said in STM32?:

stm32 sensor is unable to connect to gateway:

After further testing, this seems to work now. I'm not exactly sure why unfortunately. I'm now using the new RFM69 library. I noticed that communication seems to fail after uploading the sketch over stlink, even when clicking the reset button. When disconnecting/reconnecting the usb power all works well. Maybe that was the issue previously as well.

Just following up on this as I finally found out why this is happening. I was using encryption and using serial upload (using stm32flash), the simulated eeprom would get overwritten by the flash erase. Not sure if this happens for dfu or stlink as well. Uploading using the black magic probe (which uses dbg) does not have this problem. I hope this may help someone struggling with the same issue.

Edit: not sure about dfu or stlink.

[nagelc]

Has anyone been able to do OTA programming with the STM32 yet?

[Dab0G]

@nagelc Yes I did. My bootloader - https://github.com/mysensors-rus/STM32_Mysensors_bootloader. My modified MySensors library - https://github.com/mysensors-rus/MySensors. Short description in Russian - https://mysensors-rus.github.io/STM32-OTA-MySensors

[nagelc]

@dab0g Wow! I did not expect anyone to answer. This is really great. I have a remote control lamp and a thermostat that use the STM32 and it would great to be able to program them OTA. I'll check it out.

[alowhum]

@nagelc said in STM32?:

@dab0g Wow! I did not expect anyone to answer. This is really great. I have a remote control lamp and a thermostat that use the STM32 and it would great to be able to program them OTA. I'll check it out.

If you do, be sure to create an English write-up for the rest of us!

[Dab0G]

My mini board.