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RePhone with Arduino IDE on Mac OS X

Gespeichert von Thorsten am 8. Januar 2017 - 17:26

There exists a tutorial how to use the RePhone http://wiki.seeed.cc/RePhone/ with Mac OS X, but its lacking some comfort, lets push this a little further, but not to the end Sad

Existing tutorial: https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/CodeLite_for_RePhone/wiki/building-RePho...

What is it missing?

  • IDE
  • Firmwareupdater
  • Pushtool for binary file to RePhone

It's Arduino based, RePhone is 'similar' to Mediatek Linkit board - so if you find Mac OS X stuff for the Linkit board, it's the closest you could find.

  1. IDE

    Get the Arduino.app - there is a 1.6.0 version and the recent one while I was developing was 1.6.13 version - main difference is the handling of different board configurations.
    1.6.0: you can just copy the file tree of a new board configuration inside the app, app gets it
    1.6.13: you need a defined file with some checksums to get it listed and this is usually provided via download - the closest one I found is: http://download.labs.mediatek.com/package_mtk_linkit_index.json - but not working out of the box for RePhone - I will not describe how to get this done

    For the ease of my development I used 1.6.0 version: www.arduino.cc/en/Main/OldSoftwareReleases on Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6

    Download: https://www.arduino.cc/download_handler.php?f=/arduino-1.6.0-macosx-java...

  2. IDE board definitions + compiler

    Get the https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/Arduino_IDE_for_RePhone for Windows - don't worry, we just take the java IDE files from it Wink

    Download: https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/Arduino_IDE_for_RePhone/archive/master.zip

    Copy files from master.zip archive to IDE:
    cp -r hardware/arduino/mtk/ Arduino.app/Contents/Java/hardware/

  3. Firmwareupdater

    - is not essential to start working, but good to know it is possible Wink
    Is available, but needs some tweaking
    Get: http://labs.mediatek.com/site/global/developer_tools/mediatek_linkit/get...

    Download USB drivers: https://labs.mediatek.com/en/download/I2cGRHeR
    Download: http://download.labs.mediatek.com/mediatek_linkit_sdk_tool_osx-1.1.23.ta...

    Rename the folder inside the SDK:
    mv tools/mtk/firmware/LinkIt_ONE tools/mtk/firmware/LinkIt_ONE_disabled

    Move the firmware folder from the windows version in step 2) (from the master.zip) to the SDK:
    cp -r hardware/tools/mtk/firmware/LinkIt_Device/RePhone tools/mtk/firmware/LinkIt_ONE

    Now tools/mtk/FirmwareUpdater.app is able to flash the firmware to the RePhone

    And you can also put it to the Arduino.app
    cp -r tools/mtk Arduino.app/Contents/Java/hardware/tools

  4. Pushtool

    - not jet solved...
    somehow it works with the simple 'blink' example, but fails with a more sophisticated one - no idea why - debugged on commandline....no clue
    Alternatives to compare to / try:

    as long as it is not solved, use the workaround:

  5. Get binary onto RePhone

    Just use the verify button to build your code for the RePhone target - you need to find the binary .vxp - which is in your temp folder - the IDE output gives you a hint - you can also just use 'find' to get it:
    find /var/folders/ -name *.vxp

    Put the RePhone in file mode, copy the file, e.g.:
    cp /var/folders/lx/hhfx0mgp21vm/T/build66115160777.tmp/RINGRING.cpp.vxp /Volumes/NO\ NAME/MRE/

    You might need to change the autostart file: /Volumes/NO\ NAME/autostart.txt
    [autostart]
    App=C:\MRE\RINGRING.cpp.vxp

    Restart rephone...by pushing 'the button'

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