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nanobapt's utterance expressed in news:3EBAD33D.309020...anadoo.fr: (...) nope - only one at a time - but that shouldn't have any influence since the rc is one-way-only. The pc is another thing - here it is very important that only one rcx is turned (...) (22 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) The RCX will not respond to the remote until you succeed in downloading the firmware. The built-in romware does not listen to the remote. The remote can be used with many RCXes at once, since it is a one-way protocol with no response messages. (...) (22 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Chris, Do you own any Spybots? If you leave the remote in "ping" mode (as kids tend to), you will have a horrible time downloading anything. This has happened to me many times. I still do a little head scratching each time, until I think (...) (22 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Chris Phillips's utterance expressed in news:HEL5rn.1DrD@lugnet.com: (...) okay - bought the rc after I had upgraded the old rcx. (...) hmm seems a little embarassing for TLC. I've had ir-devices for many years and this is the least functional thing (...) (22 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Interesting. I do own a couple Spybotics, although I'm not sure I've ever even put batteries into them, and I think (80% sure) they were in another room at the time. That would explain why the problem went away all by itself, though. And now I (...) (22 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) I had a similar experience. In fact, it happens to me fairly regularly. I believe I've traced it to bad connections in the tower's serial cable. After I fiddle with it the problem usually goes away. (22 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Brian B. Alano's utterance expressed in news:HEMMAJ.1n01@lugnet.com: (...) I have tried fiddling with the wires, but it's the same thing. At about 75% through the firmware download, it stops :( (22 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Several people report download failures at about 75% of way through downloading the 2.0 firmware. This problem could be related to using one of the "quad" speed downloading routines available in many of the alternative development systems. The (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Then it would be interesting to implement a 4800 baud download WITH complement to be able to download std firmware faster and reliably ?!? Philo www.philohome.com (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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