Problem with CClib proxy

[ArtemTomin]

Hello! I have such error after ./cc_info.py -p /dev/cu.usbmodem1411

ERROR: Could not find CCLib_proxy device on port /dev/cu.usbmodem1411

I use Arduino UNO

[wavesoft]

Hello @ArtemTomin ,
it looks that the script cannot communicate with your Arduino on the port you specified.

I just pushed some changes on master that enable auto-detection. This means that cc_*.py scripts will now auto-detect where is the CCLib_proxy connected. Can you try updating to the current latest version and trying again, without specifying any -p or CC_SERIAL environment variable?

[ArtemTomin]

Dear @wavesoft,
The some problem, but o lil bit different error:
ERROR: Could not detect a CCLib_proxy connected on any serial port

[wavesoft]

Hey @ArtemTomin ,
It looks that there is a problem with the pyserial library. I think I have fixed it on the current master (just pushed another commit) can you try it and let me know?

[ArtemTomin]

Hi @wavesoft,
Thank you for such urgent help. But, unfortunately, it still doesn't work. Now, after ./cc_info.py or ./cc_info.py -p /dev/cu.usbmodem1411 just no reaction. Just is blinked cursor.

[ArtemTomin]

[wavesoft]

Hey @ArtemTomin , do you see the Arduino LED standing still? If yes, can you try unplugging & plugging it again?

Also, try to use the latest Arduino library. I just pushed some changes that prohibits this lockdown from happening again.

[ArtemTomin]

Hi @wavesoft,
Should I try with connected CC device, such as BLE112? Now, the some trouble. But i didn't connect any device, only arduino UNO. Did you see my screenshot?

[wavesoft]

Hey @ArtemTomin , unfortunately I can't see your screenshot.
You don't have to have a CC device connected to get a handshake confirmation. You should get a warning regarding wrong wiring. Are you sure the Arduino sketch is the correct?

[ArtemTomin]

Hi @wavesoft, I use simple Arduino UNO, I've uploaded your sketch from Example folder without any changes.

[wavesoft]

Ok, that's interesting. I from the port name I guess you are on Mac OSX? Which version? And which Python version are you using?

[wavesoft]

Can you also try to do a manual ping to see if there is something wrong? You can type the following:

~$ dd if=/dev/cu.usbmodem1411 bs=3 count=1 | hexdump -C&
~$ echo -ne '\xF0\x01\x01\x01' >  /dev/cu.usbmodem1411

If everything goes well you should see something like this:

[1] 12345
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
3 bytes transferred in 4.939679 secs (1 bytes/sec)
00000000  01 00 00                                          |...|
00000003
[1]+  Done                    dd if=/dev/cu.usbmodem1411 bs=3 count=1 | hexdump -C

If not, something is wrong with your set-up.

[ArtemTomin]

I see this:
[1] 24406
iMac-Artem:~ Artem$ 1+0 records in
1+0 records out
3 bytes transferred in 0.000024 secs (125829 bytes/sec)
00000000 41 69 38 |Ai8|
00000003

[1]+ Done dd if=/dev/cu.usbmodem1411 bs=3 count=1 | hexdump -C

[ArtemTomin]

When I try to connect with ./cc_info.py -p /dev/cu.usbmodem1411 I see just frozen cursor. If i disconnect Arduino, i see immediately ERROR: Could not find CCLib_proxy device on port /dev/cu.usbmodem1411

[wavesoft]

The response that I see there does not really look like the one that I would expect from the sketch. Are you sure that's the correct port? Could it be that there are 2 ports for the arduino board? One for the bootloader and one for the serial port?

I haven't used an Arduino UNO, so I can't say for sure.

[ArtemTomin]

I use OS X El Capitan. Python 3.
Yes, this is correct port, i use it other my application with arduino and it works fine. There is only one port. My Mac see this port and bluetooth, that all.

[wavesoft]

Hey @ArtemTomin , that looks like ASCII output. Can you try connecting using the Arduino Serial Monitor, type something random and hit enter? We might get something more useful out of it.

[ArtemTomin]

Hi @wavesoft !
I did it, speed is 9600. Response is just ????????? Unreadable symbols.

[Ivening]

Hello, @wavesoft, I have the same problem as @ArtemTomin, but I use OS Windows for this.
The symptoms are the same - when I launch cc_info.py I get a frozen cursor and when disconnect USB cable out of Arduino UNO, it says ERROR: Could not find CCLib_proxy device on port com14. I use Python 2.7, Win7 x64, Arduino UNO, the sketch is without any modifications - as in your library.
I am going to flash BLE113 - so I could test the solution for CC2541. Urgently need help. Thank you.

[maartendamen]

Did you ever get this resolved?
I am running into the same issues. It seems that the proxy is ok when I send manual commands using Realterm. Maybe this in the version of pyserial that is used.

Before digging further, did anyone get this resolved?

[vogler]

I have the same problem using a Wemos D1 mini. Tried two different MacBooks and different versions of pyserial. How can I debug this?

❯ dd if=/dev/cu.wchusbserial1410 bs=3 count=1 | hexdump -C&
[1] 84442 84443

1+0 records in
1+0 records out
00000000  01 00 00                                          |...|
00000003
3 bytes copied, 0.000429 s, 7.0 kB/s
[1]  + 84442 done       dd if=/dev/cu.wchusbserial1410 bs=3 count=1 |
       84443 done       hexdump -C
~/zigbee/CCLib/Python master*
❯ echo -ne '\xF0\x01\x01\x01' > /dev/cu.wchusbserial1410

❯ python cc_info.py -p /dev/cu.wchusbserial1410
ERROR: Could not find CCLib_proxy device on port /dev/cu.wchusbserial1410

[vogler]

The originally raised IOError is ERROR: CCDebugger responded with an unknown status (0xa4) where the status changes (b4, c8, c8, ca, b4, b2, 30, ...).
Tried pyserial 3.0.1 and 3.4. Python is 2.7.15.

[vogler]

Tried it on my Windows PC and it works 🤔
At least the Wemos D1 mini replied correctly right away.
For it to be able to talk to the CC2531, I had to add the -E option - before that I just got No chip found. Check your connection and/or wiring!.

[tido-]

@vogler, can you explain or write the whole line where you used the -E?

@wavesoft, I have spent a few hours, but all I get on my Arduino Mega is this:
ERROR: Could not detect a CCLib_proxy connected on any serial port
I just flashed the BLINK-code to make sure the Arduino works, it does.
When I call cc_info.py the LED flashes like 2,5 times and then dark. Here ^CERROR: I hit Ctrl+c after couple seconds.
How could I dig deeper to see at which level it gets stuck?
Another way to debug?

Ubuntu Mate 18.04 - Arduino Mega 2560 - CC2531 Stick

crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 166, 0 Mai 29 19:29 /dev/ttyACM0

python-serial  3.4-2  all pyserial - module encapsulating access for the serial port


Python 2.7.15rc1

python cc_info.py
NOTE: Performing auto-detection (use -p to specify port manually)
INFO: Checking /dev/ttyACM0
^CERROR: Could not detect a CCLib_proxy connected on any serial port

sudo python cc_info.py 
NOTE: Performing auto-detection (use -p to specify port manually)
INFO: Checking /dev/ttyACM0
^CERROR: Could not detect a CCLib_proxy connected on any serial port


Python 3.6.7

python3 cc_info.py
NOTE: Performing auto-detection (use -p to specify port manually)
INFO: Checking /dev/ttyACM0
ERROR: Could not detect a CCLib_proxy connected on any serial port

sudo python3 cc_info.py
NOTE: Performing auto-detection (use -p to specify port manually)
INFO: Checking /dev/ttyACM0
ERROR: Could not detect a CCLib_proxy connected on any serial port

python3 cc_info.py -p /dev/ttyACM0
ERROR: unicode strings are not supported, please encode to bytes: 'ð\x00\x00\x00'
 - on github issue #5


Manual Ping:
$ dd if=/dev/ttyACM0 bs=3 count=1 | hexdump -C&
[1] 13599
$ 0+0 Datensätze ein
0+0 Datensätze aus
0 Bytes kopiert, 0.00838095 s, 0.0 kB/s

echo -ne '\xF0\x01\x01\x01' >  /dev/ttyACM0
[1]+  Fertig                  dd if=/dev/ttyACM0 bs=3 count=1 | hexdump -C```

[vogler]

@tido Since Windows' cmd doesn't persist history I can't look it up, but I think it was just what I wrote above, i.e., python2 cc_info.py -E.
I tried to get it to work on macOS before, but that somehow didn't work.

https://github.com/wavesoft/CCLib/blob/master/Python/cclib/ccproxy.py#L134
From your output it seems like with Python 2 this line blocks, while with Python 3 it throws. Maybe print those exceptions to debug.

[tido-]

@vogler, thank you for your quick reply. I tried it with your line.. still doesn't work.
Line 134, you mean to change the python code so, that it prints more details, than just the line @wavesoft defined?
How would you change the code ... I only read a book about C.

It looks like that wavesoft has abandoned, this neat work of his, two open commits are not merged.. if I am not wrong.
I looked now at the FORKS and this: https://github.com/kirovilya/CCLib was reForked a couple times and even in 2019 accepted commits.

[vogler]

Then I would try this fork - the commits say it's adjusted for Python 3.
https://github.com/wavesoft/CCLib/blob/master/Python/cclib/ccproxy.py#L138-L143
You could just remove this try/catch to see which exception was thrown originally.

[tido-]

if you have a Raspberry Pi (I am not a fan) you can just connect it and flash it. I wasted hours on the Arduino /ESP32 ideas. This just worked: https://github.com/jmichault/flash_cc2531

[connermacleod69]

Hi,
I also struggled some time with this problem (Windows 10 64 bits)
Pyserial is installed!
python C:\Users\etadmin\Downloads\CCLib-master\CCLib-master\Python\cc_info.py
NOTE: Performing auto-detection (use -p to specify port manually)
INFO: Checking COM11
ERROR: Could not detect a CCLib_proxy connected on any serial port

This starts python3 on my computer!
After installing pyserial for Python27
C:\Python27\python.exe -m pip install pyserial==3.0.1
(updating pip C:\Python27\python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip)

it works
C:\Python27\python.exe C:\Users\etadmin\Downloads\CCLib-master\CCLib-master\Python\cc_info.py -p COM11
INFO: Found a CC2530 chip on COM11

Chip information:
Chip ID : 0xa524
Flash size : 16 Kb
Page size : 2 Kb
SRAM size : 1 Kb
USB : No

Device information:
IEEE Address : 000000000000
PC : 0000

Debug status:
[ ] CHIP_ERASE_BUSY
[ ] PCON_IDLE
[X] CPU_HALTED
[ ] PM_ACTIVE
[ ] HALT_STATUS
[X] DEBUG_LOCKED
[X] OSCILLATOR_STABLE
[ ] STACK_OVERFLOW

Debug config:
[ ] SOFT_POWER_MODE
[ ] TIMERS_OFF
[ ] DMA_PAUSE
[ ] TIMER_SUSPEND

With this resolved I could follow the instructions on
https://github.com/arendst/Tasmota/wiki/Zigbee

Regards

[rvt]

On OSX I could solve this by adding:

self.ser.reset_input_buffer()
self.ser.reset_output_buffer()

after time timeout in the routine that opens the serial port.

Apparently there are some characters in the input/output buffers. The current code does´t know how to 'align' itself so clearing the buffers helps here.