Incompatible with StandardFirmata 2.3 / Arduino 1

[nategood]

Recently upgraded an Arduino Duemilanove to use StandardFirmata 2.3 (the default in the latest Arduino Environment 1.0) and the node firmata library no longer works :-(. Downgraded to 2.2 and the library works fine again.

Seems like 2.3 had a lot of breaking changes because the three Python host libraries I had suffered from the same problem.

[jgautier]

This sounds more like a firmata sketch issue. I would post an issue here
https://github.com/firmata/arduino/issues and to the firmata mailing list.
I am pretty sure I have tested firmata with the latest sketch on my uno,
unfortunately I do not have a Deumilanove to test with. I will verify the
the sketch works on the uno and let you know.

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Nate Good <
reply@reply.github.com

wrote:

Recently upgraded an Arduino Duemilanove to use StandardFirmata 2.3 (the
default in the latest Arduino Environment 1.0) and the node firmata library
no longer works :-(. Downgraded to 2.2 and the library works fine again.

Seems like 2.3 had a lot of breaking changes because the three Python host
libraries I had suffered from the same problem.

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[nategood]

Thanks. My first guess was a sketch issue, however the "Firmata Test Program" does work fine with the 2.3 sketch.

[mikemaccana]

I've had the same issue with a UnoR3 - the Board never got into ready state with StandardFirmata 2.3. Downgrading to 2.2 got me into ready state.

[jgautier]

2.3 is definitly working for me on my macbook air. I just uploaded the sketch from arduino ide 1.0.1 and checked the firmware version on the repl.

Julians-MacBook-Air:firmata-node juliangautier$ node repl.js
Enter USB Port and press enter:
/dev/tty.usbmodemfd121
Successfully Connected to /dev/tty.usbmodemfd121
firmata>board.firmware
{ version: { major: 2, minor: 3 },
name: 'StandardFirmata' }

I am going to close this issue for now. I am happy to look into it more if you guys have some more info for me.