PC/Laptop Support Tools

Putty

PuTTY is a free (MIT-licensed) Windows Telnet client to communicate with Fenix Autopilot.

Session
- Serial line: COM#
- Speed: 9600
- Connection type: Serial
Terminal
- - Implicit CR in every LF
  - Implicit LF in every CR
- Local echo: Force on
- Local line editing: Force on
Window
- Selection
  - Auto-copy selected text to system clipboard
    Mouse paste action: System clipboard
Connection
- Serial
  - Serial line to connect to: COM#
  - Speed: 9600
  - Data bits: 8
  - Stop bits: 1
  - Parity: None
  - Flow control: RTS/CTS

# is the COM port number where Autopilot is connected. If you don't know the value, try numbers sequencialy starting from 1.

It is recommended to Save Session to ease recovery of settings at the begining of each session.

Move the cursor to the upper-left corner of PuTTY and left-click.

Select "Copy All to Clipboard".

Open Notepad and paste the Clipboard to a txt file.

Microsoft Windows Tool for flashing Fenix SW (HEX file) to Fenix autopilot (Arduino).

# is the COM port number where Autopilot is connected. If you don't know the value, try numbers sequencialy starting from 1.

Download xLoader.zip file.
Unzip the xLoader.zip file
Insert Fenix USB cable into an available USB port
Wait for eventual drivers to be installed, if driver installation fail, goto USB Driver
Execute the xLoader.exe file
Select Configuration Parameters.
Choose your COM port. If no COM port is available, goto USB Driver
Click Upload
Wait for the text Uploading... to be replaced by <nnnn> bytes uploaded
Unplug USB cable.

Last updated 1 year ago