[Microbit-Python] Repl not echoing back

[Radomir Dopieralski]

Hi,

I'm not sure what could the problem be, but for a full picture, can you
also try it on a different computer, to make sure it's not something in
your configuration?

On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 21:37:43 -0600
Naomi Ceder <naomi.ceder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm having a very weird issue with Mary the micro:bit.
> 
> It had been working fine... until I was about to demo before the
> Chicago Python group (ChiPy) last night.
> 
> Then suddenly the repl wouldn't work. That is, I could apparently
> connect, I could type commands in, the LED on the microbit would
> flash as normal, but nothing was echoed back. I could put scripts on
> the flash and the would run normally, but after trying 3 different
> terminal programs (all of which had worked before), still no joy.
> 
> Tonight I've been experimenting more and I can confirm that the
> commands I'm entering do get to the microbit and are executed as
> normal. Even arrowing up and tab completion are working normally, but
> nothing gets sent back to my screen.
> 
> I've mainly kept the comm settings at what worked well before 115200,
> N-8-1 and I might add that I've used 2 or 3 different versions of the
> firmware with the same reaction, two different USB cables, a lot of
> swearing, and I'm sort of at wit's end.
> 
> Has anyone else encountered this? Is there something obvious that I'm
> missing? Or something mysterious that I need to know? Or is it just a
> wonky micro:bit. I honestly didn't do a thing to it from when it
> worked fine until when it didn't, and it strikes me as a bit odd that
> it will do everything as before, EXCEPT echo the characters back to
> the terminal.
> 
> Halp?
> 
> Thanks,
> Naomi
> 
> 



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Radomir Dopieralski

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