use with a macbook "for dummies"

[Lele855]

Hello guys,
sorry but I need a help to follow the guide to use GCFFlasher with a Mac.. I have to flash a conbee II (at the moment it isn't recognized by deconx 2.12.06 and i'm really going crazy because I don't know how I can resolve) but i have a lot of trouble to understand how i can follow the steps.... in practice:

Compile the executable with the build script (with Clang)
CC=clang ./build_posix.sh

--> what I should do when i open the terminal?

Run
$ ./GCFFlasher
GCFFlasher v4.0.0 copyright dresden elektronik ingenieurtechnik gmbh
usage: GCFFlasher

how I arrive here, in order to execute this program and flash the firmware? how I have also to download the new firmware and put it somewhere in the mac?
sorry for this elementary questions but I really don't know what I should do (and what I shouldn't do).

thanks a lot

[ciairmi]

Hi, I need it too.
Please help us on mac os

[rautesamtr]

Open a terminal and enter the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/dresden-elektronik/gcfflasher.git
cd gcfflasher
CC=clang ./build_posix.sh

Now if the compilation exits without errors the GCFFlasher executable should be in this folder which you can execute with ./GCFFlasher. Run pwd if you want to know your current directory. So each time you want to run GCFFlasher you have to cd into that directory.

[ciairmi]

Hi, I did what you suggested and I got that results:

Cloning into 'gcfflasher'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 68, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (68/68), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (61/61), done.
remote: Total 68 (delta 37), reused 36 (delta 6), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (68/68), 26.27 KiB | 2.92 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (37/37), done.
./build_posix.sh: line 26: pkg-config: command not found
libftdi1 not found, building without
clang -Wall -DPL_MAC -O2 -DNDEBUG

There's something wrong?

[rautesamtr]

No this should be fine, libftdi is only needed to support ConBee I.

[ciairmi]

firmware successful written!!!
Thank you so much!
Regards
Andrea

[labactani]

this was super helpful, but I am still unclear on the command to pass to gcfflasher

I cc the firmaware in the same folder than GCFFlasher and use the following command
./GCFFlasher -t 60 -d dev/ ConBeeII -f deCONZ_ConBeeII_0x26720700.bin.GCF

But this is what I get and goes in loop..

read file success: deCONZ_ConBeeII_0x26720700.bin.GCF (164241 bytes)
flash firmware
command reset timeout
retry connect bootloader /dev/ConBeeII
retry connect bootloader /dev/ConBeeII

What am I doing wrongly?

[rautesamtr]

looks like you are not giving a correct path to the device file -d dev/ ConBeeII. Should be something like -d /dev/cu.usbmodemDE... . Check with ls /dev | grep cu.usbmodem on the commandline for a list of available devices.

[labactani]

Yes, thanks - indeed the path of the device was wrong!!
I used the correct one and worked like a charm, thanks a lot!!

[Lele855]

Dears, sorry I am still here.. thank you for your help @rautesamtr ! I tried to use the software but the list command don't show me my conbee 2 connected to the mac (both usb ports)

MacBook-Pro:GCFFlasher Samu$ ./GCFFlasher
GCFFlasher v4.0.0-beta copyright dresden elektronik ingenieurtechnik gmbh
usage: GCFFlasher
options:
-r force device reset without programming
-f flash firmware file
-d device number or path to use, e.g. 0, /dev/ttyUSB0 or RaspBee
-c connect and debug serial protocol
-t retry until timeout (seconds) is reached
-l list devices
-h -? print this help
MacBook-Pro:GCFFlasher Samu$ ./GCFFlasher -l
0 devices found

what i shold do? i'm confused..

thank you!

[deviantintegral]

I was able to flash firmware from my Mac today. I did have to edit https://github.com/dresden-elektronik/gcfflasher/blob/main/build_cmake.sh#L1 to use /usr/bin/env as /bin/env doesn't exist on macOS.