[Microbit-Python] Repl not echoing back

[Nicholas H.Tollervey]

Hi Naomi,

I'm guessing you've done the obvious things like try connecting with a
different USB-serial client (using picocom instead of urepl for example)..?

Have you connected it to a different computer..?

Trying to eliminate different variables to close in on the problem is
hard and frustrating. :-/

If you're using my urepl, has the code changed..?

Let us know how you get on.

N.

On 12/12/15 03:37, Naomi Ceder 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
> 
> 
> -- 
> Naomi Ceder
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/111396744045017339164/about
> 
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