Firmware release 1.7.1.b1

[daniel]

Issue with the safeboot fixed here: https://github.com/pycom/pycom-micropython-sigfox/commit/f29075e4b0a1f713af1d2579465ffd35e360eb12

[robert-hh]

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[robert-hh]

@daniel Thanks. That looks like the right place. I cannot check it before this evening, by innocenzo may do so.

[this.wiederkehr]

@daniel: Any ideas why I get those LoadProhibited exceptions? Any hint where I should start searching. I'm just lost on these ...
The first two seem very low level which makes me wonder .... the third might be related to the issue with ntp_sync.

[daniel]

@this.wiederkehr we are investigating this now.

[Innocenzo]

@robert-hh I check it. Now It works.

[daniel]

@this-wiederkehr this:

import machine
import os

sd = machine.SD()
os.mount(sd, '/sd')

f = open('/sd/test', 'a')

while True:
    f.write('blabla')
    print('about to disable irq')
    machine.disable_irq()
    print('about to flush to file')
    f.flush() # <-- freezes reproducible at that call
    print('about to enable irq')
    machine.enable_irq()
    print("I'm done")

is expected to freeze as the SD card uses interrupts. If you disable them before flushing the SD card driver stays waiting for the operation to finish, which never happens as the interrupt doesn't trigger.

Still working on the other crash...

Cheers,
Daniel

[rdixey]

@daniel Does the current updater tool for release LoPy_868-1.7.1.b2.tar.gz incorporate the fix for the ntp_sync issue?

I want to be sure before installing the update. Please confirm.

[daniel]

@rdixey no, that fix is not out yet. The release will be out tomorrow together with other fixes and new features (like the WDT).

[peekay123]

When I ran the Firmware Udpater last night, it installed 1.7.1.b2 (on LoPy) which still has the ntp_sync issue. I also noticed that rtc.local(), which worked on 1.6.7.b1, no longer works on 1.7.1.b2. The following no longer runs (from my boot.py file):

# We are here because wifi connected so set the RTC time
from machine import RTC

rtc = machine.RTC()
rtc.ntp_sync("pool.ntp.org")
utime.sleep_ms(750)
time.timezone(-14400)
print(rtc.local())

[Innocenzo]

@daniel I've found some other bugs in this release:

• the disconnect() function of the Bluetooth class does not work!

bt = Bluetooth()
conn = bt.connect(b'\x00\x15\x83\x00\x4A\x67')
services = conn.services()
for service in services:
    time.sleep(0.050)
    if type(service.uuid()) == bytes:
        print('Reading chars from service = {}'.format(service.uuid()))
    else:
        print('Reading chars from service = %x' % service.uuid())
    chars = service.characteristics()
    for char in chars:
        if (char.properties() & Bluetooth.PROP_READ):
            print('char {} value = {}'.format(char.uuid(), char.read()))
conn.disconnect()

the WiPy returns in REPL, but the BLE peripheral does not detect the disconnect (the peripheral remains cennected to WiPy and cannot be detected by other devices).

• The ssl socket server side causes a core dump or throws an exception!

newsocket, fromaddr = bindsocket.accept()
connstream = ssl.wrap_socket(newsocket,server_side=True, certfile='/flash/cert/cert.pem', keyfile='/flash/cert/key.pem')

[daniel]

@peekay123 I guess that you mean: time.localtime() this is related to the same ntp sync issue which has already been solved internally. Thanks.

[peekay123]

@daniel, rtc.local() worked fine before. However, I'll use time.localtime() in the future.

[this.wiederkehr]

Thanks @daniel for letting me know. Is this behavior documented somewhere. It's not basically what I would expect ;-)

Here is a script to reproduce the crash. I could reproduce the crash on address 0x40087eb9 with it. Though, it does not trigger on the first instance but you might have to run it for several minutes till the exception occurs. I'll try further and see if it also triggers the other exceptions I got...

import machine
import os
import utime

sd = machine.SD()
os.mount(sd, '/sd')

f = open('/sd/test', 'a')
t1 = utime.ticks_ms()
while True:

    print('about to initialize buffer')
    k = bytearray(1024)
    print('about to write to file')
    f.write(k)
    print('about to flush to file')
    f.flush()
    t2 = utime.ticks_ms()
    print("I'm done %i"%(t2-t1))
    t1 = t2

Update: Yes, this also triggers the other exception at address 0x400875b9.
Update2: It also reproduces the freeze or at least I can see a slow down of the python interpreter by factors. I just see cycle times which are usually in the range of 10 - 500 ms (500 most likely during gc) going up to ~20000 or even 30000.

Let me know if you can reproduce those issues...

[sthomson]

Hi,
I have used the updater tool to flash 1.7.1.b2 to my LoPy board. I am running the following:

wlan = network.WLAN(mode=network.WLAN.STA)
wlan.connect(ap.ssid, (ap.sec, mypassword))
    while not wlan.isconnected():
        machine.idle() # save power while waiting

This was working without problems with the previous firmware (1.6.7.something), but now it is stuck in the machine.idle() loop and never seems to connect. Is this related to one of the bugs discussed here?

[daniel]

@sthomson I just tried your script and everything seems to work normally. Does it change anything if you replace the machine.idle() line with time.sleep(1) ?

[sthomson]

@daniel I changed it to time.sleep(1) and I have the same issue. I also tried it with a couple of different wifi networks.

When I log onto my router, it actually sees the device as connected, it's just the LoPy that doesn't seem to realize it's connected.

Thanks.

[Frida]

import time

while 1:
    print("Time: ",time.time())
    time.sleep(1)

Why is the time going to count from 1 to 2146, and then the next nummer is
negative and it count's down to -140462611, and repeats it self over and over.

Time: 0 to
Time: 2146 then the next is
Time: -140464759 and down to
Time: -140462611 and then start over again
Time: 0
Time: 2146
Time: -140464758
Time: -140462611
Time: 0
Time: 2146
Time: -140464758
Time: -140462611
Time: 0

>>> os.uname()
(sysname='WiPy', nodename='WiPy', release='1.7.1.b1', version='v1.8.6-640-g585ac892 on 2017-06-02', machine='WiPy with ESP32')
>>> 

[peekay123]

@Frida, on firmware 1.7.1.b2, on a fresh reset, I get:

Time:  572
Time:  573
Time:  574
Time:  575
Time:  576
Time:  577
Time:  578
Time:  579
Time:  580
Time:  581
Time:  582
Time:  583
Time:  584
Time:  585

So it seems to be working. However, I have the same issue as @sthomson regarding the wifi connectivity. The LoPy doesn't think it's connected but I can connect to it via ftp. Also, ntp is not working as we all know.

[robert-hh]

@Frida @peekay123 I observed the same behaviour as @Frida . @peekay123, you have to let it run until 2146, if you read @Frida's comment properly. Then it should look like:

Time:  2141
Time:  2142
Time:  2143
Time:  2144
Time:  2145
Time:  2146
Time:  -140464758
Time:  -140464757
Time:  -140464756
Time:  -140464755
Time:  -140464754
Time:  -140464753

2146 times 1 million is a little bit less than 231, 2147 times 1 million is a little bit larger than 231 . So it looks as if there the overflow in a microseconds counter is not properly treated.