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Communication error during programming

Hi,
just received the Pixy with Pan/tilt base. I ran the pan/tilt demo and it appeared to track objects. I then started up Pixymon (version 0.1.49). First I get a black screen with white outline squares within it. Then after a couple of seconds the screen goes all black. The console text reads “Pixy detected.” and then immediately on next line “error: Unable to open USB device”. These two lines get then repeated over and over again.

I thought that perhaps this was a firmware version so I downloaded the newer (1.0.2Beta) firmware version. When I followed the instructions to install it I got the following (after selecting the file through Pixymon)

Pixy programming state detected.
Programming… (C:/temp/pixy/firmware-1.0.2beta.hex)
error: communication error during programming.

Any suggestions on further troubleshooting or fixes? I tried searching these forums but could not find anything close enough related.

I am running this on a Windows 8.1 machine.

Hi Kalle,

Pixymon is having troubles communicating with your Pixy. Can you try working through this “troubleshooting guide”:http://cmucam.org/projects/cmucam5/wiki/I_get_the_message_“No_Pixy_devices_have_been_detected”_in_PixyMon and tell me how it goes? Thanks!

Scott