Issue With Soarer Converter

pjmelon

04 Apr 2015, 23:13

Bought myself a model M terminal keyboard and obviously the path forward is to convert it over to USB.

Going from the guide in Geekhack on the bottom diagram I imagined that the RJ45 was plugged into a terminal.
Meaning from left to right I had
VCC- Black (went in VCC port)
Data - Red (PD0)
Clock - Yellow (PD1)
Ground - White (Went into Grnd)
PE - Black (I ignored this completely because it didnt seem connected to anything)

Rather than plug the Rj45 into the teensy through an adapter I wired the teensy straight into board through the adapter.
I programmed the teensy uploading the soarer converter 1.20 beta 4 (Soarer_Controller_v1.20_beta4_atmega32u4.hex).

Plugged it all together and nothing happend.

Am I missing something here? Please dont tell me I wired it up the wrong way round. :oops:

Should also mention HID Listen had nothing show up. Detected the device but button presses did nothing.
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pjmelon

04 Apr 2015, 23:48

Very wierd,
Switched to the 1.12 firmware and it works perfectly now.

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fohat
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05 Apr 2015, 00:42

At first, I was shocked "What? v1.2?" but then I realized that you must have started out with the "controller" software for the WYSE terminals or whatever it was instead of the "classic" Soarer's Converter.

pjmelon

05 Apr 2015, 01:44

Yup :)

I think my initial panic was whether I mixed up the VCC and ground. Or my other worry was that the keyboard was a dud. Appearance wise it was in superb condition and I scored it for $40US delivered so was wondering if my luck ran out.

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