Ping Sonar Altimeter and Echosounder

Blue Robotics Products Ping Sonar Devices
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When connecting the 5V of usb / serial adapter and the red line of sonar, sonar starts blinking.
And I did some troubleshooting. (http://docs.bluerobotics.com/ping-viewer/faq-and-troubleshooting/#troubleshooting
)
The serial port display is displayed but the depth output is not output.

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Also, How is the connection method
sonar ⇔ arduino MEGA (UNO) ⇔ adapter ⇔ usb cable ⇔ PC (Ping viewer)
Or
sonar ⇔ adapter ⇔ usb cable ⇔ PC (Ping viewer)
？
Neither has depth in Ping viewer.

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Hi,

Check your RX/TX connection between your serial/USB adapter and Ping.
Can you send Ping-Viewer log ? Check for more information here, remember to send the log of the correct time and date of your communication attempt.

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thank you for your reply.

"MEGAadapter.txt"is sonar ⇔ arduino MEGA ⇔ adapter ⇔ usb cable ⇔ PC (Ping viewer).

"withoutMEGA.txt"is sonar ⇔ adapter ⇔ usb cable ⇔ PC (Ping viewer).

Both are logs that failed manual update.

Thank you .

MEGAadapter.txt (27.4 KB)

withoutMEGA.txt (51.3 KB)

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Hi,

Looking in your withoutMEGA log, it appears that something is wrong with your computer, driver or USB/serial device.

[01:47:41:700] ping.protocol.sensor[Debug]: Connecting to "LinkConfiguration{Name: , LinkType: 2, Arguments: (COM7:115200)}"
[01:47:41:709] ping.protocol.seriallink[Debug]: "LinkConfiguration{Name: , LinkType: 2, Arguments: (COM7:115200)}"
[01:47:41:709] ping.protocol.seriallink[Warning]: Error is critical ! Port need to be closed.
[01:47:41:709] ping.protocol.seriallink[Warning]: Error: QSerialPort::SerialPortError(PermissionError)
[01:47:41:709] ping.protocol.seriallink[Warning]: Error: QSerialPort::SerialPortError(NotOpenError)
[01:47:41:709] ping.protocol.seriallink[Debug]: Port closed.
[01:47:41:709] ping.protocol.sensor[Critical]: Connection fail ! "LinkConfiguration{Name: , LinkType: 2, Arguments: (COM7:115200)}" "デバイスが開かれていません"

Try to open Ping-Viewer elevate powers such as admin, it appears not possible to Ping-Viewer to open the serial port. (デバイスが開かれていません)

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Thank you for your reply.
I try to open Ping-Viewer such as admin.

I confirmed ” Connection fail ! “LinkConfiguration{Name: , LinkType: 2, Arguments: (COM7:115200)}” “デバイスが開かれていません”” does not appear in the log。

However, the depth was not output.

Also, I tried using teraterm, but it was not output.

I connected the GPS sensor (GY-GPS6MV2) to the same adapter and was output by teraterm.

Run as administrator.txt (45.3 KB)

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hi @Lily…have you salved the problem mentioned above…I am also facing the same problem…Ping sonar is not detecting neither on ping viewer nor in arduino mega…please help me to troubleshoot this

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Hi,

Please check Ping-Viewer FAQ about connection problems.

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Hi Patrick,
I am trying to recover my ping sensor with the above method what you have told before in the same thread, but I am not getting success in this and I am getting this error.! LED is not blinking in my ping sensor and not responding to ping viewer also.
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Now I am getting this error,

.\stm32flash.exe : Failed to init device.
At line:1 char:1

  • .\stm32flash.exe -v -g 0x0 -b 115200 -w .\Ping_V3.26_115kb.hex COM3
  •   + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (Failed to init device.:String) [], RemoteException
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError
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Hi,

From your screenshot, it appears that you are in the wrong path/folder in the terminal, you need to change the terminal directory to the one that contains pingviewer.exe and stm32flash.exe.

I’m not aware of such error, did you check if you are using the correct serial port ? You can check that via device manager. Remember to follow the steps as described.