Gobot & Tinker - Function not found

[rbin]

If one tries to program a Spark using the Gobot lib, you must have the default Tinker firmware installed otherwise we get a 'Function not found error'.

➜ go run gobot.go
2014/05/02 13:49:55 Initializing API on :3000...
2014/05/02 13:49:55 WARNING: API using insecure connection. We recommend using an SSL certificate with Gobot.
2014/05/02 13:49:55 Initializing connections...
2014/05/02 13:49:55 Initializing connection RBIN ...
2014/05/02 13:49:55 Starting connections...
2014/05/02 13:49:55 Starting connection RBIN...
2014/05/02 13:49:55 Connecting to RBIN on port ...
2014/05/02 13:49:55 Initializing devices...
2014/05/02 13:49:55 Initializing device Red...
2014/05/02 13:49:55 Device Red initialized
2014/05/02 13:49:55 Starting devices...
2014/05/02 13:49:55 Starting device Red...
2014/05/02 13:49:55 Device Red started
RBIN Error: Function not found
RBIN Error: Function not found
RBIN Error: Function not found
RBIN Error: Function not found

After reflashing the spark through the Tinker default hardware, the Go code works fine.

[zankich]

@zs- and I talked about a possible api route to help determine your current firmware. Until that is the case we need to better document the requirement to run the default tinker firmware on your spark core.

[solojavier]

What about something like this? https://github.com/hybridgroup/gobot/pull/58/files