Flash Memory Storage

Hi there,

I have bean working with the HBL2360 for a couple of weeks now. I have built a in house AGV but for some reason it the motor controller is not saving of the code to the flash memory that is built into the motor controller.

I sending the code to the device and I thought that it would automatically save to the flash memory after that. Is there something else that I need to do after sending the code to the device?

Thanks.

I was trying to save the script to the flash memory, so that script that the motor controller is operating off of will be pulled back up into the roborun program when you reattach a computer to the motor controller. Otherwise I have to pull up a previously stored script and the information may not be up to date. Especially if using a different computer to trouble shoot an issue or whatever situation may arise.

Hopefully that makes a bit more since.

What's stored in the controller is not your MicroBasic script, but the machine code derived from it. Even if you could upload it back to the PC it wouldn't do you much good.

What I have found moderately useful for keeping track of versions (if I am disciplined enough to always do this) is to include a line like:

PRINT ("Roboteq_node_13")

at the top of the script so that by opening from the console I can see which program is in the controller. If I've downloaded a script to try out, rather than change the version number I add a comment:

PRINT ("Roboteq_node_13: NO ContactorCloseTime")

I think it would be handy if MicroBasic had macros like C's as I've used in this Arduino C++ variant:

Serial.println(__FILE__ " - " __DATE__ " " __TIME__);

. This automatically sends the file name and the date and time of last download to the serial monitor. Even with that, however, if you've made a change to the program without saving it, you'll see a date/time different from what's in your stored file, but that changed code is lost and gone forever.

Ciao,
Lenny