Trying To Finish Qualia Fireplace

[Dan_Kurtycz]

I have returned to my Qualia Fireplace project after a knee replacement.
So... all the parts are together and everything looks like the provided pictures. After applying power I see a rainbow on the display. I checked all the soldered connections for continuity from solder side to solder side with my multimeter and the connections look ok (images can be provided). The connections from the Qualia S3 to the Micro SD were checked again. I formatted the SD card that came with the kit (FAT32) and named it "Qualia". I put a folder entitled VIDEOS on the SD. I put a 25 KB file called “Adafruit-Fireplace.mjpeg” in the videos folder. Its type is mpeg. So, I put the SD micro card in the SD SPI breakout board. Powered the whole thing up and saw the rainbow display. I double clicked the reset and the screen went dark. I clicked reset again and the rainbow came back. So, now i think I’m stuck. For the video file, I downloaded a 30 second QuickTime video from the web, used the conversion utility to make the mjpeg file, and as I mentioned, placed this file in the VIDEOS folder… Can you tell me where i screwed up, or how to proceed? Are the SD card names wrong? Is there a standard file that I could use in the case that my video is not compatible? thanks again… Dan Kurtycz

[mikeysklar]

Based on your description uploading the Qulia S3 Fireplace code again is needed. Can you switch to bootloader mode and upload the UF2 image?

[Dan_Kurtycz]

So, I'm slowly traveling into the land of frustration, but I cannot give up. I reloaded the boot loader and went down the list of items including reloading the arduino IDE, loading the "blink" sketch. Changing the LED_BUILTIN to 13 and uploaded that... and only see

This is all that I can produce

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This is all that I can produce

Adafruit.jpg (125.46 KiB) Viewed 21 times

On the
TFT_S3BOOT are the following filenames.
Autorun
CURRENT.UF2
FAVICON
INDEX
INFO.UF2
On the SD named Qualia is the following folder
VIDEOS which contains the files
Adafruit-Fireplace.mjpeg (26 MB in size)
IMG_1330.mjpeg (12.9 MB in size)

So, I'm not sure how to proceed. Help! I picked an intermediate kit and it seems I pushed my upper limit, but I'd like to make this one successful and continue to learn...
Dan Kurtycz, MD

[Dan_Kurtycz]

The video were run through the conversion utility with parameters as suggested by Adafruit. Perhaps the names are wrong? The "Fireplace" file is converted quicktime video from the web and came out with the mjpeg.BANNED tag. I obviously deleted the BANNED.. The second file is a video from my niece captured from iPhone and converted....If there is any other info I can supply.. please let me know.. I really appreciate the help.
Dan Kurtycz

[mikeysklar]

Dan,

Let's try two things.

1) Can you show a photo of your soldering for the microSD harness?

2) Disconnect the microSD harness and try the rainbow demo UF2. The one I've linked to is specific to the TL032 model of display the Fireplace guide uses.

[Dan_Kurtycz]

Here are three images. Two are of my soldering and the third comes after I loaded the demo file to the TFT. Sorry I took so long. So,,, what next?

[mikeysklar]

It is a good sign that the demo code shows the rainbow as expected.

The soldering is hard for me to confirm on the boards. You have the right camera angle, but the resolution is too low. Can you upload higher resolution photos of the ones you have taken? It looks like you need a little more flow (go over the solder points again).