If you know you have a working .hex file, and have reasonable certainty everything is still good on your programmer/cables/clip, you can use the .bat file method with no issues. If for whatever reason the flash doesn't work the window closes REALLY FAST! and it's pretty easy to tell if it worked or didn't.
But yes, for the first time with a new file, or after making changes, open the command prompt manually and paste/type in the commands. Once you've verified it works you can whip up a .bat file to go with each new version so you don't have to do all that mess every time you want to flash the same one again.
I went to bed just after midnight my time, didn’t get up til 8:30. Immediately set about fixing the issue with my SOIC clip and getting it working, flashed my first driver a bit later this morning. (yep, dreamed it, slept on it, got up and fixed it) But I DID get some sleep! I wasn’t up posting at all hours like you’re saying Steve, sorry. Couldn’t even have been sleepwalking as I shut down the entire system every night.
My wife would shoot my if I was a sleepwalker. Pure and simple.
Hi!
I want to try this flashing but I have a few beginners questions:
1)How do I choose which driver is good for flashing? Are these Nanjg 105c with ATMEL TINY chip OK?
2)Can you give me a suggestion where to order “TEST CLIP 8PIN SOIC” because shipping costs to my country from “digikey” site are $120. :~
Many many Chinese/HK sellers have the test clips with free shipping worldwide. For those of us in the U.S. it's much quicker to buy from U.S. sellers (and it's sometimes cheaper, too). Just search ebay for 'SOIC-8 clip' (adding a dash between SOIC and 8 will give you matches for 'SOIC8', 'SOIC 8', and 'SOIC-8' so you don't miss anything).
This driver uses the exact same hardware, just a different firmware version and if you're going to reflash them anyway who cares, right? They're also cheaper.
Hey guys I’m having some problems writing, I have my ribbon cable soldered to the pins on the ATtiny13A (clip coming from china still a few weeks out) and it is working correct, the issue is I dont know where to put the .hex file I want to write. I have created a folder on my C drive just like instructed and placed the .hex in there, I then used the “flash”.bat file RMM posted and of course edited it to be the EXACT name of the .hex I’m wanting to flash, the ONLY one in the folder but when I try to run “flash” in the CMD i get this-
What am I doing wrong?
edit found what I was doing wrong, I was naming my files with “.hex” in the name, apparently thats bad. its working now.
And if your “flash” program happens to change its name from time to time, such as to test different version numbers (e.g. “Flash2 %1” or “Flash3.65-rev.1” %1) you can use %0.
It’s so simple:
%0 %1 %2
(etc. depending on how many variables the program will accept) and all you need do is copy the “Flash2.BAT” to “Flash3.65-rev.1.BAT” and bob’s yer uncle!
The %0 is replaced by the .BAT filename.
I would make mine
@%0 %1 %2 %3
so as not to echo the command line, but that depends on the status output of the program.
Now you've gone and made it complicated! No reason to do that in this case. I grew up on DOS, I didn't have Windows or a mouse for some time so I learned my way around this stuff a little bit.
but I have a few beginners questions: