WINC1500 & Programmer Not Responding

[nickolivo]

I've got a WINC1500 shield attached to an Uno. When I run the Wifi Firmware Updater, I get a "Programmer Not Responding" error message when I click the Test Connection button. If I try to run the CheckWifi101FirmwareVersion sketch, the serial monitor shows
"WiFi101 firmware check."

"WiFi101 shield:"

and then never displays anything else.

I am able to upload other sketches to the board successfully.

I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 and 1.8.5 of the Arduino IDE. Please let me know what other information would be helpful.

Thanks!

[adafruit_support_mike]

That usually seems to be related to some kind of problem in the board support packages.

Try deleting (or just renaming) your Arduino15 folder, relaunch the Arduino IDE, and try doing a firmware update from the base version of the libraries.

[nickolivo]

I renamed Arduino15 and tried again, but am still encountering the same behavior. Is there something else I can try?

Thank you!

[adafruit2]

hiya please post pics of your setup, it will help debug!

[nickolivo]

Here are the pics of my setup. I struggled with soldering the pins, but I don't think there's anything that's touching that shouldn't be. I was also able to upload and run the Blink sketch.

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Thanks for the help!

[adafruit2]

you are missing the 2x3 SPI header

[nickolivo]

I soldered on the other headers, but am still seeing the same behavior.

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The full output of the console is:
java.lang.Exception: Programmer not responding
at cc.arduino.plugins.wifi101.flashers.java.FlasherSerialClient.hello(FlasherSerialClient.java:105)
at cc.arduino.plugins.wifi101.flashers.java.JavaFlasher.testConnection(JavaFlasher.java:51)
at cc.arduino.plugins.wifi101.UpdaterImpl$2.run(UpdaterImpl.java:110)

Thanks!

[adafruit2]

try uploading the version checking script. what arduino is that?

[nickolivo]

The board I'm using is an Uno clone.

I uploaded the check version sketch and got this output in the Serial Monitor.

WiFi101 shield: DETECTED
Firmware version installed: 19.5.2
Latest firmware version available : 19.5.4

Check result: NOT PASSED
- The firmware version on the shield do not match the
version required by the library, you may experience
issues or failures.

Incidentally, when I go into the Firmware Updater, the most recent version I can select is 19.5.2. I'm running 1.8.5 of the IDE, is there something else I should update?

Thanks!

[adafruit2]

you'll need to verify you have the latest version of the wifi101 library to get newer firmwares, i think!

[nickolivo]

The Library Manager says I have 0.14.5, which looks like it's the most recent version. Is there something else I can check?

Thanks!

[adafruit2]

ooh here you go, looks like its a sepate thing! not sure why they didn't make it so it updates with the library >.<

https://github.com/arduino-libraries/Wi ... ter-Plugin

[nickolivo]

Ok, that got me the 19.5.4 firmware as an option, but I'm still getting the Programmer Not Responding error.

Thanks

[adafruit2]

it could be the non-standard arduino you have, what is it?
as an alternative, you can just back up the version of the wifi101 library until its happy with 19.5.2 - 19.5.4 doesnt add any features, its mostly bugfixes!

[nickolivo]

The board I'm using is an IEIK Uno.

I just tried with an official Arduino Uno, but got the same result.

I wound up backing out to an earlier version of the library and while I still get the programmer not responding error, I can successfully connect to my WiFi.

Thanks for all your help on this!