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    • Star_RaiderS
      Star_Raider
      last edited by

      Hello,

      I'm having difficulties in updating the firmware for the GamePadBlock. I'm a technical novice, although I'd like to think I can follow directions.

      On a Mac OS 10.13, admin account, and working from the steps on the GamePadBlock site: https://blog.petrockblock.com/gamepadblock-downloads/.

      When at the "prepare" step, I get a message "Something went wrong. Is brew (https://brew.sh) installed?"

      Paste of the terminal log below. Many thanks for any guidance!

      Davids-MacBook-Air-4:~ DaveB$ /Users/DaveB/Desktop/petrockutil-darwin-amd64 gamepadblock readversion /dev/tty.usbmodem1421
Found GamepadBlock at /dev/tty.usbmodem1421 . The firmware version of it is ?
Davids-MacBook-Air-4:~ DaveB$ /Users/DaveB/Desktop/petrockutil-darwin-amd64 gamepadblock prepare
Attempting to install avrdude with Homebrew...
Something went wrong. Is brew (https://brew.sh) installed?
2019/01/20 14:05:57 exec: "brew": executable file not found in $PATH
Davids-MacBook-Air-4:~ DaveB$ /Users/DaveB/Desktop/petrockutil-darwin-amd64 gamepadblock update /dev/tty.usbmodem1421
Downloading the latest firmware
Most current firmware version is 1.2.0
https://github.com/petrockblog/GamepadBlockUpdater/releases/tag/1.2.0
Downloading https://github.com/petrockblog/GamepadBlockUpdater/releases/download/1.2.0/firmware.hex to firmware.hex
48843 bytes downloaded.
Downloaded firmware file firmware.hex
Press the RESET button on the GameapadBlock to activate its update mode.
Press 'Enter' to continue...
2019/01/20 14:06:34 exec: "avrdude": executable file not found in $PATH
Davids-MacBook-Air-4:~ DaveB$
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      • P
        petrockblog Global Moderator
        last edited by

        It might be that brew is not installed on your machine. Brew is a package manager for MacOS and allows you to install all kinds of tools that you might also know from the Linux world. It is used by the update tool.

        Could you try and install brew depicted at https://brew.sh? It boils down to calling

        /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
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        • Star_RaiderS
          Star_Raider
          last edited by

          @petrockblog

          That did it! Up and running... thank you!

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          • P
            petrockblog Global Moderator
            last edited by

            Glad to hear that!

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