Devices using Nano

[raven drum]

Hi,

What are the IoT devices are able to use Nano?
I just get a a M5Stack.
Also got Flipper Zero and M5Stick.

[shrewd tundra]

I guess the two M5 are supported by nano

I just get an ESP32_S3_GEEK from waveshare and it's not supported out of the box like the M5Stick but it works

[raven drum]

Yep. Agree.
Is there a list of devices?

Does a device can support, in futur, nano fw ?

[shrewd tundra]

There's a recommendation device list
https://docs.nanoframework.net/content/getting-started-guides/where-to-buy-devices.html

[young anvil]

To make it simple: almost any M5 is supported whenever they are using a supported ESP32.

Then, we do provide nice board package that already setup the device, uses the proper screen, have the right pins, the right sensors, etc.

This second part is a bit more limited. If you get a device and want to submit a PR to ad more of those board packages, we will be very happy to review the PR!

[silver carbon]

For M5Stack, check our M5Stack repo on github

[raven drum]

Hm.. M5StickPlus is compatible. I went to the repo, clone it, open it but... VS doesn't see a device.

[raven drum]

I would ❤️ to send a PR! I need more knowledge for sure.. But C# 9.0 is a bit old... Idk

[silver carbon]

Don't let the version prevent you from doing it.

1. There is nothing on C# > v9 that you need to make it work
2. That's a default/safe version. Most of the new features are supported, except fancy ones and those that require generics. 😉

[raven drum]

How to make a device compatible with Nano Framework?

[raven drum]

That's funny, I was on it after my question xD
But... I tried with a compatible device, I didn't succeed.

[young anvil]

what have you been trying to do? 🙂 A bit more details will definitely help to understand!

[raven drum]

Clone the repo and try to launch in debug on VS2022 but it does nothing for my esp32 device. Cannot deploy

[raven drum]

@young anvil , and do it form those devices

[young anvil]

which device? Have you flashed it before with nanoff?

[raven drum]

Well, array init, namespace, global usings, and many many more aren't available

[raven drum]

Nanoff? What is it? I feel that will be able to dev on it with ur knowledge 😁😁😁

[raven drum]

C# 9.0 Ok 👌 but will be on a upgrade version? Can I help?

[ivory palm]

Did you flash the M5 with nF firmware?

[young anvil]

Follow the steps to flash your device: https://docs.nanoframework.net/content/getting-started-guides/getting-started-managed.html and see the correct firmware to use here: https://github.com/nanoframework/nanoFramework.M5Stack?tab=readme-ov-file#usage. Be careful, the firmware AND the nugets are different depending on the device.

THEN and only then, you can change, in your own project, to CSharp 10 or even latest version.

[raven drum]

Not yet

[ivory palm]

Without the nF firmware nothing on VS is going to work.

[raven drum]

Understand!

[raven drum]

Lovely! So helpful 😁😁😁❤️

[raven drum]

I just my M5StickPlus.................. 2

I hope it's not bricked

[raven drum]

Bricked 😢

[young anvil]

it's never bricked 🙂 What's happeening?

[raven drum]

Seems to work again and flashing back to marauder

Nano framwork firmware just gave my a green light, discovered by Device Explorer but never could launch an app

[young anvil]

you have to run the app in Visual Studio. Follow the getting started I shared, it just works fine! And add the elements from the second link to be able to run your device. So add the proper nuget

[raven drum]

NF isn't compatible with M5StickPlus 2.
I followed what you sent me 🙂
Clone the repo, add an NF project, got a reference, and here we go. Or not lol

[young anvil]

with what have you been flashing it?

[raven drum]

nanoff --target M5StickCPlus --update --serialport COM3

[young anvil]

that should be ok regarding the hardware differences

but definitely, NOT the board package

you should just be able to use it like this

[raven drum]

I run that cmd, and it say ok in the log

[young anvil]

then Visual Studio will see it

[raven drum]

After that, just a green light on the device and able to see in Device Explorer

[young anvil]

you may have to switch it off and restart because of the power management

so then, just use the basic hello world example and you're good to go

screen wise, it's going to be another story!

[raven drum]

Okay

[raven drum]

Mauroder powered by NanoFW works ?

[silver carbon]

what is Mauroder ?

[raven drum]

https://github.com/ATOMNFT/M5stick-Marauder

[silver carbon]

After a quick look, Marouder looks like a framework on it's own.
You can't have it running on nanoFramework which is C#.
You'll be able to integrate it with a nanoFramework build firmware but requires changes in the build system to add their source.

[raven drum]

Yes ! A big project to do the same as Marauder on Nano !

[silver carbon]

That should be doable yes.
Like I've said: it will require bringing in the source files to the build.
Extra detail : I suppose you would like to access some sort of API from C#... that would require a class lib and wrappers to call the C++ code and return results

[raven drum]

Hm. Call some feature of the device can be easy but not all.
As u said, some feature ask for non-implemented stuff on Nano. Those can be taken, source files from where ?
When not avaible but able, where to find it ?

@young anvil, when I installed the nano fw, it said:
2>The connected target does not have support for the following assembly(ies):
2> 'nanoFramework.Graphics'
But I have a screen lol

[silver carbon]

I'm presuming you want to add Marauder source files to nanoFramework CLR build...
All their API would become available. In native code.

[silver carbon]

The fact that your hardware has a screen doesn't magically change the firmware to have graphics namespace available.
A firmware that includes that is required 😉

[raven drum]

Not rly. I would like to do his features but not mandory to do the same way as it

[raven drum]

Oh. I didn't understand this way. I had to bring nuget graphics for this to work ?

[silver carbon]

It's a mix of both: your solution has to be bring in the UI NuGet package AND the firmware as to include the Grapichs feature (otherwise it won't have nothing to call)