Emisar D4S review

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@Firelight2

@Fate0n3

I want to say thank you for putting this all together…. Along with Toymaker providing updated configs, it really helps people like me getting into the hobby of flashing flashlights.

I just attempted to flash the Anduril onto my D4. This was my first attempt ever at flashing a driver on a flashlight so I don’t really know what I’m doing.

Result: TOTAL FAILURE.

When I tried to run the app initially it seemed to work fine. typing AVRdude at the command prompt displayed the list of stuff AVRdude can do. But when I tried to flash an ATiny85 I got a message about USBasp not being detected or something like that.

After a few attempts at this, the result changed. Instead when I tried to run the command line for AVRdude a pop-up window appeared saying “this App can’t run on your PC”. Along with a similar message at the command line prompt.

I’m running Windows 10.

Need a very detailed step-by-step guide for dummies on how to get this thing working on Windows 10. :weary:

And what’s worse… now that I read up on some of the 1-star reviews of AVRdude, people are complaining that the app messed with their system and broke many programs. GAAAAH! I hope this didn’t happen to me. I have no idea if that happened. I sure hope not. AVRdude seemed to work at first from the command line then abruptly stopped working.

Are there any safer alternative programs to AVRdude for flashing the ATiny?

I like AVRDUDESS as its a bit more idiot proof if you want a GUI, but really you need to do some reading. You can kill your D4S if you flash it wrong and it wont be recoverable without specialty tools.

Check out the first post in this thread: Flashlight Firmware Repository

Look through the readme and read the getting started links.

Im thinking you never installed a driver for your USBASP and the links above should have the correct drivers.

I use simple batch files for flashing lights with AVRDUDESS and I have it broken up based on if im flashing fuses(potentially dangerous, only needs done once) or flashing firmware (Mostly safe)
These are both for ATtiny 85s.

FW:
cd “C:\Program Files (x86)\AVRDUDESS”
avrdude -c usbasp -p t85 -u -U flash:w:C:\Users\username\Desktop\builds.local\1.hex:a

So you would type “FW-ATtiny85.bat FWNAME”

Fuses:
cd “C:\Program Files (x86)\AVRDUDESS”
avrdude -c usbasp -p t85 -u -U lfuse:w:0xe2:m -U hfuse:w:0xdf:m -U efuse:w:0xff:m

Type “Set-ATtiny85Fuses.bat”