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Subject: 
RCX not in range or not switched on?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sun, 2 Apr 2000 01:28:24 GMT
Original-From: 
Jose Solorzano <J.H.SOLORZANO@WORLDNET.spamlessATT.NET>
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Good morning.
I've encountered a strange problem, and I'd like to
see if you can help me figure out the possible causes.

For about a week now the RIS 1.5 software I have
installed on my Win95 machine hasn't been working.
Every time I download the firmware using the RIS software,
communication with the RCX is not possible -- the
RCX does not respond. I get messages to the effect
that the "RCX is not in range or not switched on" or
"IR communication failure."

It's not a battery or range problem, for the following
reasons:
- I have put new batteries in both the IR transceiver
  and the RCX.
- I have taken the batteries out for several minutes,
  and retried these tests.
- I have tried all kinds of ranges, and lighting conditions.
- If I download the RIS firmware using nqc -firmware or
  firmdl, the RIS software is able to communicate with
  the RCX!
- Unofficial firmware replacements do work.

Because of the above, it looks like a hardware problem
is ruled out. However, I've reinstalled the RIS software
several times, without much luck. I even uninstalled
software I've installed in the last few days.

Has anybody else encountered a similar problem?
Any ideas as to what the problem might be?

Regards,
--Jose



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  Re: RCX not in range or not switched on?
 
(...) Do you see a green light lighting up when you try to communicate throught the official software? It should, otherwise, something's wrong. Hope this Helps Simon (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics)

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