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Digispark (Original) Support / Issue programming Digispark

« Last post by sebi on January 07, 2020, 07:50:24 am »

Dear community,
I used to be able to program my Digisparks, but currently I don't have them anymore to try reprogramming them as they are used in projects I gave away.
In the meantime I got 2 new ones but I am unable to program them using the Arduino IDE as before.
I re-followed some tutorials on the internet to make sure the driver was still installed successfully on my Windows 10 computer.
When I click on upload in the Arduino IDE I get:
Running Digispark Uploader...
Plug in device now... (will timeout in 60 seconds)
And it is written Done uploading in the status bar.
But nothing gets uploaded.
I tried to run C:\Users\sebi\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\digistump\tools\micronucleus\2.0a4/launcher -cdigispark --timeout 60 -Uflash:w:C:\Users\sebi\AppData\Local\Temp\arduino_build_606253/DigiSpark_test.ino.hex:i directly in the command line and after a second or 2 I got the next command prompt, the Digispark being plugged in or not.
In doubt, I reflashed the bootlaoder Micronucleus v2.0a4 on a Digispark using an Arduino Uno but it didn't help.
Do you have any clue what my issue could be? Thanks.

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Digispark (Original) Support / Is there a way to disable a digispark from being programed

« Last post by Portal742 on January 07, 2020, 07:44:06 am »

Is there any way to lock the program onto the digispark so a new one cant be written and one cant be erased?

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Digispark (Original) Support / Re: Is there any way to remove the 5 seconds programming delay at powerup ?

« Last post by SilentWarrior on January 05, 2020, 03:06:50 pm »

Anyone finding this in the future looking for a way to remove the startup delay on their Digistump Attiny85 (or other) here are the instructions:

- Go here: https://github.com/micronucleus/micronucleus/tree/v1.11
- Download the whole project on 1.11 (thats the tag where the needed .hex files are at this point in time) and extract it to a dir.
- On Windows, open the command line and drag the file "micronucleus-1.11\commandline\builds\Windows\micronucleus.exe" to the command line so it pastes the whole path in it
- Click on the command line window, put a space in front of the path and add "--run" and another space
- Drag the "micronucleus-1.11\upgrade\releases" file you want to burn to your device, in my case, I use the PB0 as a push button (the only one) for my project, so I am just going to re-use it, so I picked the "micronucleus-1.11-entry-jumper-pb0-upgrade.hex"
- Once you drag you should see the full path of the exe + " --run " + the full path of the hex file
- Make sure the device is disconnected.
- Press enter and it will ask you to connect your device, it will then burn the new bootloader.
- Now when you want to program your device just keep the push button (PB0 in my case) pressed while you plug in the USB.

Note: There is two directories with .hex files, one is for FULL bootloaders (this will fail because of not enough space since there is a bootloader already on the device) and an UPGRADE dir. In the example I used the UPGRADE dir since my device came with a bootloader.

Example output :

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C:\Users\silent>C:\Users\silent\Downloads\micronucleus-1.11\micronucleus-1.11\commandline\builds\Windows\micronucleus.exe --run C:\Users\silent\Downloads\micronucleus-1.11\micronucleus-1.11\upgrade\releases\micronucleus-1.11-entry-jumper-pb0-upgrade.hex
> Please plug in the device ...
> Press CTRL+C to terminate the program.
> Device is found!
connecting: 16% complete
connecting: 19% complete
connecting: 22% complete
connecting: 25% complete
connecting: 28% complete
connecting: 33% complete
> Device has firmware version 1.6
> Available space for user applications: 6012 bytes
> Suggested sleep time between sending pages: 8ms
> Whole page count: 94  page size: 64
> Erase function sleep duration: 752ms
parsing: 33% complete
parsing: 50% complete
parsing: 50% complete
> Erasing the memory ...
erasing: 50% complete
erasing: 50% complete

....

erasing: 66% complete
erasing: 66% complete
> Starting to upload ...
writing: 66% complete
writing: 66% complete
writing: 67% complete

.....

writing: 83% complete
writing: 83% complete
> Starting the user app ...
running: 83% complete
running: 100% complete
>> Micronucleus done. Thank you!

C:\Users\silent>




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Digispark (Original) Support / Re: Digipark Attiny85 just won't work : /

« Last post by granzeier on January 04, 2020, 05:55:49 am »

Great! I'm glad that you got it working. Thanks for letting us know.
You are right about solutions often being minor/simple/silly, but this is one that, while simple, is not easy to figure out on your own. It really helped me when I saw this fix from Digistump.

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Digispark (Original) Support / Re: Digipark Attiny85 just won't work : /

« Last post by TheSecondQuincy on January 03, 2020, 05:14:24 pm »

So USB hub came in today - plugged in the board, and after some finagling, that seemed to do the trick! Thanks for the suggestion, I knew it had to be something really minor / silly I wasn't coming up with.

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Digispark (Original) Support / Can you use shortcuts on a didispark like Ctrl+t

« Last post by Portal742 on January 02, 2020, 02:26:55 pm »

If someone could answer yes or no and if yes say how that would be great I'm desperate for answers

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Digispark (Original) Support / Using Command shortcuts

« Last post by Portal742 on January 02, 2020, 06:36:25 am »

I have been trying to use a digispark on a Dell Chromebook. Since it doesn't have cmd or any other multi-function tool I have been trying to get the digispark to use shortcuts like Ctrl-t to open a new tab, but I am unsure of how to get the digispark to do this. If anyone could help me that would be great. I am new to this community and digisparks and I'm trying to learn. Thanks.

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Digispark (Original) Support / Using Command shortcuts

« Last post by Portal742 on January 02, 2020, 06:33:29 am »

I have been trying to use a digispark on a Dell Chromebook. Since it doesn't have cmd or any other multi-function tool I have been trying to get the digispark to use shortcuts like Ctrl-t to open a new tab, but I am unsure of how to get the digispark to do this. If anyone could help me that would be great. I am new to this community and digisparks and I'm trying to learn. Thanks.

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Digispark (Original) Support / Re: Digispark upload + USB problems Windows 10.

« Last post by icandothat on January 01, 2020, 11:29:13 am »

I had the same problem, I think it's because you're choosing the wrong board. Choose the digispark 16Mhz (default).

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Digispark (Original) Support / Re: Digipark Attiny85 just won't work : /

« Last post by TheSecondQuincy on December 31, 2019, 11:00:59 am »

Thanks - I did see that suggestion a few places but didn't have one on hand to test it out. I'll get one ordered and update once it comes in!