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Summary of Contents for Shimmer Dock
- Page 1 Copyright © Shimmer 2016 Realtime Technologies Ltd Shimmer Dock User Guide All rights reserved Rev 1.8 Shimmer Dock User Guide Rev1.8...
- Page 2 Neither the name of Shimmer Research, or Realtime Technologies Ltd. nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this document without specific prior written permission.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Rev 1.8 Table of Contents Shimmer Dock ........................... 3 1.1. USB Serial Converter Driver Installation ................4 1.2. Placing a Shimmer in the Shimmer Dock ................9 1.3. Charging the Shimmer ...................... 10 1.4. microSD Card Access ......................11 1.5. -
Page 4: Shimmer Dock
All rights reserved Rev 1.8 1. Shimmer Dock The Shimmer Dock (referred to as the Dock from here on) is a multi-purpose device which can provide three primary functions, as described in more detail throughout this section: Charging the Shimmer ... -
Page 5: Usb Serial Converter Driver Installation
(right) The Dock connects to a PC via a USB cable. Whilst drivers for the microSD Card Access should already exist on your PC, you will need to manually install USB Serial Converter drivers to use the Dock for programming the Shimmer. - Page 6 Rev 1.8 Figure 1-3 USB Serial Converter Driver Download 2. Connect the Dock with a powered USB Port of your PC. 3. Verify your system settings: From the Control Panel, select Device Manager (in Windows this is found from Control Panel →...
- Page 7 FTDI. Then, under the Advanced tab, make sure the Load VCP checkbox is ticked (see Figure 1-5). If the checkbox isn't ticked, you will need to tick for each Serial converter and then unplug and re-insert the Dock.
- Page 8 Copyright © Shimmer 2016 Realtime Technologies Ltd Shimmer Dock User Guide All rights reserved Rev 1.8 Figure 1-5 USB Serial Converter Properties Next, under the Ports (COM & LPT) entry in the Device Manager, you should see two new USB Serial Port entries, each with an associated COM port number, as shown in Figure 1-6.
- Page 9 All rights reserved Rev 1.8 Figure 1-6 Device Manager showing Dock USB Serial Ports Double-click on each of these USB Serial Port entries and, under the Port Settings tab, click on Advanced...in the Miscellaneous Options at the bottom right-hand side of the window,...
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Page 10: Placing A Shimmer In The Shimmer Dock
When the Shimmer is placed in the Dock, the green LED on the Power/Reset button on the dock will light up green if the Shimmer is powered on. If it does not light up then one of the following may have occurred: ... -
Page 11: Charging The Shimmer
1.3. Charging the Shimmer In order to use the Dock as a charging device, simply connect the USB cable of the Dock to a powered USB socket and insert the Shimmer unit into the Dock. Note: You should make sure your Dock is powered when a Shimmer is docked as the Shimmer battery will discharge if it is left idle in a Dock that is not powered. -
Page 12: Microsd Card Access
Shimmer. This will result in a blinking blue LED on the Dock followed by a time-out from the HOST, or a blue LED on the Dock that turns off (media is detected but fails OS poll). You can try to re-insert the Shimmer, inspect the code, or contact the developer. - Page 13 (right) The Dock connects to a PC via a USB cable. Whilst drivers for the microSD Card Access should already exist on your PC, you will need to manually install USB Serial Converter drivers to use the Dock for programming the Shimmer.
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Page 14: Legacy
2.1. Compatibility The previous version of the Shimmer Dock (v2.1) can be identified by the two LED indicators – one for MicroSD/UART activity and the other for charge indication, as shown in Figure 2-1. It should be noted that this version of the Dock is not fully compatible with Shimmer3. The charge indicator will... -
Page 15: Gps
All rights reserved Rev 1.8 It should also be noted that the Shimmer Dock (v2.1) (and previous versions) do not contain the DIP switches that are present on Shimmer Dock v3 to change the configuration of the Dock. MicroSD Indicator/... - Page 16 USBREADER or USB Dual UART docks. While the Dock has a memory retention feature for GPS almanac data, after a period of inactivity, or geographic movement, initialization of GPS almanac data may take up to an hour. Without a clear sky-view, data output from the GPS module will be incomplete.
- Page 17 When you run BSL430, the application will automatically attempt to detect the serial port associated with the Dock, this will be indicated by the COMxx entry in the port tab (illustrated in Error! Reference source not found.) where xx is the serial port number. If no port is displayed, try pressing the Reload COM ports button.
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Page 18: Troubleshooting
2. A Windows such as that illustrated in Error! Reference source not found. should pop up. In addition, the UART Indicator light on the Dock will flash. Depending on the program size, it may take up to five minutes to program a Shimmer, but blink is quite small and the firmware update should complete quickly. -
Page 19: Pc Fails To Recognise The Sd Card
Figure 3-1 BSL430 folder structure PC fails to recognise the SD card I have inserted an SD card into my Shimmer unit but the PC fails to recognise it when I view the list of Devices with Removable Storage as in Figure 3-2. - Page 20 Figure 3-3 Shimmer SD Card detected by PC On certain PCs, users of the Shimmer2/2r and the Shimmer Dock v2.1 (and earlier) may experience SD card access problems, due to Windows drivers causing a race condition, which means that the SD card control is not correctly handed over from the Shimmer to the PC.
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Page 21: The Fw Did Not Program Correctly
Make sure the Shimmer is switched on (green LED in Reset Button is on). Make sure the USB cable is fully inserted in the Dock as depicted in Figure 3-4 USB cable inserted. Try again. If programming fails after a few attempts, contact Shimmer support through the form on: http://www.shimmersensing.com/support/wearable-sensing-support/... - Page 22 Copyright © Shimmer 2016 Realtime Technologies Ltd Shimmer Dock User Guide All rights reserved Rev 1.8...
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