Hi, I’ve been trying to use the pololu’s programmer pgm03A item 1300 using the arduino’s IDE and I’m getting an error saying “Error while uploading: missing ‘program.params.quiet’ configuration parameter”. I followed the steps mentioned here and here. The drivers are correctly installed I’m able to see signals with the program “sloscope” (I don’t know what the signals mean, I think it’s something to do with spi com) I can alter the configuration with “pgm03a_config” program as well and I’m able to set the pololu as the Programmer but when I try to burn it using him “Ctrl+Shift+U” I got the error mentioned. If I try to turn on the verbose I get the error: “Error while uploading: missing ‘program.params.verbose’ configuration parameter” I guess the programmer doesn’t support verbose.
PS: I’ve choose a board that has an atmega328 in my case the arduino duemilanove with atmega328 (the microcontroller that I want to burn). It also appears two COMs and I`ve tried them both.
Can you post screenshots showing the Tools menu of your Arduino IDE and your Device Manager with the “Ports (COM & LPT)” entry expanded? Can you run the Pololu USB AVR Programmer Configuration Utility (pgm03a_config.exe) after attempting to program your Arduino Duemilanove and post a screenshot of the utility window? How are you powering your Duemilanove? Please note that the AVR programmer does not power the target device, so you will need to supply power directly to it when programming it through the ISP headers.
By the way, the SLO-scope application just measures TTL-level voltages (between ground and 5V) using pins A and B on the programmer. You can find more details about that feature under the “Measuring Voltages Using the SLO-scope” section of the AVR programmer’s user’s guide.
Thank you for your quick reply Amanda. I’m posting the images below but first I’m pretty sure that the problem lies on the Pololu’s programmer configuration file that I’ve got from the git. When I turn the verbose on in the compilation and upload it says that the configuration parameter ‘program.params.verbose’ is missing and when I turn it off it says that ‘program.params.quiet’ configuration is missing. I’ve my device externally powered and I can see the yellow light blinking.
It fails as well when it appears to start to program the red light comes up still and the yellow keeps blinking, here’s the output selecting the Atmel STK500 as the programmer:
PS: I’ve tried to use an arduino as the ISP and it worked I guess for while I’ll stick with this manner.
avrdude: Version 6.3, compiled on Sep 12 2016 at 17:24:16
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Joerg Wunsch
System wide configuration file is "C:\Users\RinaldiSegecin\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\arduino\tools\avrdude\6.3.0-arduino6/etc/avrdude.conf"
Using Port : COM6
Using Programmer : stk500
AVR Part : ATmega328P
Chip Erase delay : 9000 us
PAGEL : PD7
BS2 : PC2
RESET disposition : dedicated
RETRY pulse : SCK
serial program mode : yes
parallel program mode : yes
Timeout : 200
StabDelay : 100
CmdexeDelay : 25
SyncLoops : 32
ByteDelay : 0
PollIndex : 3
PollValue : 0x53
Memory Detail :
Block Poll Page Polled
Memory Type Mode Delay Size Indx Paged Size Size #Pages MinW MaxW ReadBack
----------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ------ ------ ---- ------ ----- ----- ---------
eeprom 65 20 4 0 no 1024 4 0 3600 3600 0xff 0xff
flash 65 6 128 0 yes 32768 128 256 4500 4500 0xff 0xff
lfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
hfuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
efuse 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
lock 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 4500 4500 0x00 0x00
calibration 0 0 0 0 no 1 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00
signature 0 0 0 0 no 3 0 0 0 0 0x00 0x00
Programmer Type : STK500V2
Description : Atmel STK500
Programmer Model: STK500
Hardware Version: 15
Firmware Version Master : 2.10
Topcard : Unknown
Vtarget : 4.6 V
SCK period : 8.7 us
Varef : 0.0 V
Oscillator : 3.686 MHz
avrdude: stk500v2_command(): command failed
avrdude: initialization failed, rc=-1
Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
this check.
avrdude done. Thank you.
The red LED indicates an error, so if you are interested in continuing to troubleshoot with the programmer, could you check the Pololu USB AVR Programmer Configuration Utility again (after the red LED comes on) to see what error is being reported?
