Upload Firmware Using Petoi Desktop APP

The manual for Beginner.

** Download the latest version of the Petoi Desktop APP. **

For detailed installation tutorials and usage instructions, please refer to Desktop APP Introduction.

Connect the mainboard to the computer

Currently, Petoi Web Coding Blocks only support Petoi robots equipped with the BiBoard.

You can connect the computer to the mainboard using a USB cable, following the instructions on the pages ( BiBoard V0 / BiBoard V1), which are specific to the robot's mainboard model.

For BiBoard, there are BiBoard V0_* (which requires an extension hat to use the extension hat to use voice command module and Grove sockets) and BiBoard V1_0.

Upload the firmware using the Petoi Desktop app

Open the PetoiDesktopApp

After properly connecting the mainboard with the computer via a USB data cable, open the PetoiDesktopApp (for Windows: UI.exe / for Mac: Petoi Desktop App), and select your Model and Language.

Menu bar in Petoi Desktop APP

Model

Language

Help

Click the Firmware Uploader button

Main interface

Auto Detect the Serial Port

If there is no serial port or more than one serial port is detected by the desktop app:

After clicking the Firmware Uploader button, there will be a message box prompt as follows:

Please follow the prompts in the message box. After clicking the Confirm button, If you complete the prompts within 10 seconds, the desktop app will automatically identify the serial port name connecting the robot to the computer. If you complete the operation of unplugging and plugging the USB interface on the computer for more than 10 seconds, the desktop application will enter the manual selection of the serial port name mode：

Click the OK button in the Warning message box first, then you can refresh the serial port list or select one of them (e.g. COM3) and click the OK button in the Manual mode window to open the Firmware Uploader interface as follows:

Once the Firmware Uploader interface is opened, you can also unplug and replug the USB cable from the COMPUTER side. The desktop app will automatically identify the serial port name used to connect the robot to the computer.

If you unplug the COM5 and replug it on the computer side, it will be discovered by the desktop app as follows:

Select the correct options to upload the latest firmware.

There's no correlation between the board (hardware) version and the code (software) version.

Please follow the instructions on the subsequent sub-pages (BiBoard V0 and BiBoard V1), depending on the type of your robot's mainboard.

Finish uploading the firmware

After the upload, the status bar will update the corresponding result, such as the success or failure of firmware uploading. If the uploading is successful, a message window of "Firmware upload complete!" will pop up simultaneously.

Note:

After uploading the firmware, if the BiBoard V1 is not connected to the battery and powered on, you will hear repetitive descending melodies, indicating that the battery is low or disconnected. You need to connect the battery and turn on its power.

Check the log file

If the uploading fails, the following message box will pop up:

The log file is located at:

• For Windows: The log file is in the same directory as UI.exe

  
• For macOS: You can check the log file as follows:

  

  

When you contact [email protected], please attach the log file to your email.