flashtool.py cannot find nodes

[arksine]

flashtool.py cannot find nodes

[Arksine]

According to the linked documentation these boards have user LEDs and the recommended configuration has them configured in the Katapult build. When Katapult is active and ready to accept commands the led will blink slowly. My first suggestion is to use the LED to verify Katapult is active.

If the led is not blinking try manually requesting the bootloader by pressing the reset button twice quickly. If the reset button is small and/or difficult to access you may need a small tool to perform the double reset.

If Katapult is active yet doesn't show up when queried then I would take a hard look at the U2C v2.1. Meteyou's guide doesn't seem to address how to bring up the CAN network interface, however it appears that you do have it up. You will need to make sure the bitrate of the can socket matches the bitrate configured in Katapult/Klipper. You can check it with the following command:

ip -det addr

[Fuergrissa1]

The LED does blink slowly after flashing katapult.

pi@fluiddpi:~/katapult $ ip -det addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 promiscuity 0 minmtu 0 maxmtu 0 numtxqueues 1 numrxqueues 1 gso_max_size 65536 gso_max_segs 65535
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether e4:5f:01:4d:aa:45 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff promiscuity 0 minmtu 68 maxmtu 1500 numtxqueues 1 numrxqueues 1 gso_max_size 65536 gso_max_segs 65535
    inet 192.168.68.85/22 brd 192.168.71.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute wlan0
       valid_lft 6527sec preferred_lft 5627sec
    inet6 fe80::7952:71a1:f537:e92a/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
4: can0: <NOARP,ECHO> mtu 16 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 10
    link/can  promiscuity 0 minmtu 0 maxmtu 0
    can state STOPPED restart-ms 0
          gs_usb: tseg1 1..16 tseg2 1..8 sjw 1..4 brp 1..1024 brp-inc 1
          clock 64000000 numtxqueues 1 numrxqueues 1 gso_max_size 65536 gso_max_segs 65535

So it looks like the CAN network is DOWN. After googling I tried

pi@fluiddpi:~ $ sudo ip link set can0 type can bitrate 500000
pi@fluiddpi:~ $ sudo ip link set up can0
pi@fluiddpi:~ $ ip -det addr
4: can0: <NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP,ECHO> mtu 16 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 10
    link/can  promiscuity 0 minmtu 0 maxmtu 0
    can state ERROR-ACTIVE restart-ms 0
          bitrate 500000 sample-point 0.875
          tq 125 prop-seg 6 phase-seg1 7 phase-seg2 2 sjw 1
          gs_usb: tseg1 1..16 tseg2 1..8 sjw 1..4 brp 1..1024 brp-inc 1
          clock 64000000 numtxqueues 1 numrxqueues 1 gso_max_size 65536 gso_max_segs 65535

which looks good, so checking again for CAN nodes:

pi@fluiddpi:~/katapult $ python3 ~/katapult/scripts/flashtool.py -i can0 -q
Resetting all bootloader node IDs...
Checking for Katapult nodes...
Detected UUID: c5519d4f29c6, Application: Katapult
Query Complete

Hooray! but how can I avoid having to manually bring up the CAN network? meteyou's guide has me create /etc/network/interfaces.d/can0 and fill it with:

allow-hotplug can0
iface can0 can static
    bitrate 500000
    up ifconfig $IFACE txqueuelen 128

so I can clearly see that it contains the words "bitrate 500000", and "up" is this not being honored or am I off track here?

Also, thank you so much!

[Arksine]

AFAIK that should bring up the can network when the usb device is detected. My understanding is that fluiddpi is deprecated and 'has issues', although I don't know if they are in any way related to the canbus.

[Fuergrissa1]

You are right, I reflashed Pi OS lite with the the Pi flash tool and used kiauh to handle all of the installs. after updating /etc/network/interfaces.d/can0 according to the meeteyou guide and re-cloning katapult I can now detect Katapult nodes without bringing up can0 manually.

Thanks!