Rickta59 589 Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 I came across the port of the Arduino IDE for the msp430 (it is called Energia) reading another post. Robert Wessels has made a great first stab at supporting the Arduino API for the launchpad boards. It already works on the MacOSX and Windows platforms. Edit: [i checked in the changes to git for the linux version [Linux isn't up to snuff yet, but I'll be helping him getting that working properly.] . It should be good to go. If you are running linux and have a working java, msp430-gcc and mspdebug. For a limited time you can try out an early snapshot by downloading this linux32 distribution. http://xxxxxxx It is large (~15MB) and will be changing so it will only available at that URL for a limited time. Download the tar file and unpack it. To launch, just run the energia shell script. In the Energia IDE, select the Tools menu pick one of the Launchpad boards. Set the Programmer to rf2500 and then pick your serial port. The picture below is a snapshot of the ASCIITable example found in the Communications section. The example uses the Hardware serial port of the msp430g2553 so make sure your TX/RX jumpers are set correctly. You can also find some msp430 specific examples. I haven't tested all the examples so don't expect everything to work. This is a very early version of Energia. If you are a java weenie and want to checkout the source code, you can find it up on github: https://github.com/energia/Energia -rick salty9, gordon, turd and 3 others 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kylej1050 27 Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 This is pretty cool. I know a few people that are hesitant to come over to the launchpad even though it's so cheap because of the ease of programming for the Arduino IDE. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
salty9 0 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 This is the most promising software I've run across so far. Haven't had a chance to do much with but on first look it appears useful. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
salty9 0 Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 It was a quick, easy download and recognized my msp as msp430g2452 but would not open it because of security. I've been thrashing around trying resolve this issue and would appreciate any guidance. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rickta59 589 Posted April 15, 2012 Author Share Posted April 15, 2012 have you setup the udev rules for the launchpad? https://sites.google.com/site/msp430ref/linux -rick Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HannesBK 2 Posted May 10, 2012 Share Posted May 10, 2012 Can anyone help me to get it run on Windows? I'm using Energia 1.0 (0005a). The Lauchpad works fine with CCSV and IAR. - Board is set to Launchpad w/ msp430g2553 - Programmer is set to rf2500 - Serial Port is set to my Lauchpad port (COM12) - I tried both directions for RX/TX jumpers Compiling works, but upload does not. There is no error message and no other message in the status window. Do I have to flash a bootloader first, like for AVRs? Thank you Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rickta59 589 Posted May 10, 2012 Author Share Posted May 10, 2012 I haven't tried on windows so I can't say for sure. However, in the FIle/Preferences menu you can turn on verbose upload messages and it should tell you what is going on. One of the nice things about the msp430 is that it doesn't require a boot loader. The upload is handled by mspdebug or the MSP430Flasher.exe on windows. In fact, TX/RX pins are not used to upload. The TEST/RESET pins are used to upload using Spy-Bi-Wire protocol. -rick HannesBK 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HannesBK 2 Posted May 10, 2012 Share Posted May 10, 2012 Rick, thank you very much. Now I even understand a little bit how it works. I played with MSP430Flasher from command line. Thas was very instructively but not successfull. Then I took another LauchPad. And now it works! The only difference between the two boards is, that the first one has the 32kHz crystal soldered. Again, thank you for fast help. Hannes Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobricius 0 Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Hi, how I can run this IDE on widows? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xv4y 46 Posted May 17, 2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 Hi, I use Energia build 005a under OS X with a LaunchPad and it works great. For basic things, everything is ok. Of course, since it is still in development, there are some bugs if you go into more complex codes. The dev team has been really responsive to my questions and that's great. Since you can mix C/C+ and assembler code with the Wiring wrapper, my own opinion is Energia is the way to go for hobbyist who want to discover the MSP430 and write simple code faster. Yan. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kylej1050 27 Posted May 17, 2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 As asked above, how do you go about getting this for Windows? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rockets4kids 204 Posted May 17, 2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 Is there a DMG for OSX, and if so, where? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobricius 0 Posted May 17, 2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 windows xp launcher? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bluehash 1,581 Posted May 17, 2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 Energia Community Sub-Forum. Ask your Energia questions here. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
energia 485 Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 Energia, as of yesterday, has it's own Forum here on 43oh.com. The forum is at: Board index > Community > Projects > Energia Please use the Energia forum to get help with the Energia project. robertinant Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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