Beware of Github BIN management...

[Dali]

Contrary to most pedals (all?) from PedalPCB, when something doesn't work on the Terrarium it may be just a code problem. LED are dependant of the code, audio signal is dependant of the code so you gotta be 100% sure about the BIN file you get.

I've been in Terrarium/Seed hell for 4 days (I'm no coder and know nothing about electronics)... The PCB and my built was working but it was not possible to know...

My problem was that Github BIN file wasn't really downloaded, it was in fact, a web page source/HTML...

• Right-clicking and save link as DOESN'T work !
• Clicking on the BIN file, then clicking "Download" button WORKS.

 

[zgrav]

I used the download button on github to get the bin file but it still does not seem to flash correctly to the terrarium pedal. I can flash the existing multieffect pod file to the terrarium and get something -- the right LED turns on but not off, pushing the right footswitch seems to activate a couple of the knobs. when I try to flash a bin file from my pc the terrarium will play the bypassed sounds but none of the knobs, LEDs, or footswitches seem to do anything. do any of the other files besides the bin file need to be in the same folder? I also swapped the daisy seeds between my terrarium and pod to make sure both of the seeds are OK, so I don't think that is the problem.

 

[Robert]

Programs created for other Daisy hardware may not function 100% correctly without some modifications.

The same is true for all of the Daisy devices; a program created for the Pod most likely won't work correctly on a Petal / Patch / Terrarium.

Each of the devices have a different control set so they're connected to different pins of the Seed. In most cases the signal path portion of the algorithm is "cross-platform", but the pots / switches / etc will not be.

The fact that you get a clean bypass signal tells you that at least the signal path portion is functioning, you're just unable to control the parameters and/or switch the effect into "Active" mode.


Try downloading tcpoints multidelay BIN file from here and upload it with the web programmer:

https://www.pedalpcb.com/files/delay.bin

 

[zgrav]

I had no expectation the programs for other platforms would work. I mentioned that to show that I am getting some things from flashing even though I have not been able to get the bin files for the Terrarium to work. That at least makes me think that I just have something to sort out in the flashing as opposed to some issue in the connections on the terrarium PCB.

thanks for the feedback and suggestion!

 

[Robert]

I'm working on a Terrarium diagnostic BIN file that allows you to test all of the switches / LEDs / pots to ensure they're working properly.

 

[Plate of Shrimp]

Packing the binary file as a ZIP archive may make downloading it less tricky.

 

[Dali]

Packing the binary file as a ZIP archive may make downloading it less tricky.

It's just the first time that it hurts.

I have tested both tcpoint BIN (verb and Multidelay) and they work as expected on my Terrarium.

 

[zgrav]

I'm going to go back and check my Terrarium build pin connections because neither of those files seem to do anything on the pedal.

 

[Dali]

I'm going to go back and check my Terrarium build pin connections because neither of those files seem to do anything on the pedal.

Are the files around 61 kb? When I had the HTML files-as-bin, they were 105 kb....

 

[zgrav]

files are the right size. I am touching up the pin connections from the headers to the pcb, and then will see if that made a difference.

 

[zgrav]

touching up the pins on the headers apparently did the trick. the verb program loaded without issue afterwards. thanks for the suggestions.