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Service Cable Overview

IMG-9583

Overview

Cable used to update and service farm-ng products. It includes reset functionality and USB communication.

caution

It is required to have a data USB-C cable and not a charge only USB-C cable when connecting to the debug or service cable.

IMG-9585

Product specific uses

Dashboard

  • USB interface is for REPL, filesystem access as well as updating firmware and applications,

How to connect

Connect cable to the debug port on the back of the dashboard

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REPL for BOOTLOADER State

These commands from the REPL will put the device into the bootloader state the same way the double press reset on would.

On Linux/ WSL
sudo screen /dev/ttyACM0

import microcontroller
microcontroller.on_next_reset(microcontroller.RunMode.BOOTLOADER)
microcontroller.reset()

See update process documentation for more information here

See flashing and operating system documentation for more information here

Pin-out

PINDescriptionTypical Wire ColorNotes
1USB D-Yellow
2USB D+Gray
3USB VBUSPink
4NCBlue
5GNDBlack