MTC4BT Tips for Setup

[Stefan Mader]

I have been trying to get MTC4BT running for some time, there were some errors I was facing and I want to share them to help others:

1) do not install the source code in a directory that is too nested. By mistake, I installed it to
C:\Users\abcde\OneDrive\Dokumente\PlatformIO\Projects\Firmware_MattzoController_V0.5.1\Firmware_MattzoController_V0.5.1\Firmware_MattzoController_V0.5.1

and then it simply did not compile, said it would not find some files that were there. By moving it to
C:\Users\abcde\OneDrive\Dokumente\PlatformIO\Projects\Firmware_MattzoController_V0.5.1\Firmware_MattzoController_V0.5.1
these problems could be solved.

2)
The compiler then threw several errors, the only relevant of them was:
‘std::vector’ has not been declared

After some searching I found
https://stackoverflow.com/a/38228651/1765341
which said that
#include <vector>
should always be used in classes that use vector.
After adding that line to 6 files that were in error, everything compiled fine.

I would propose to do that change in the original source code, according to the stackoverflow link I think it is pure chance whether it compiles without it or not (though I’m no C++ expert so I may be mistaken)

3) I had an old USB cable that caused the following error when Uploading the image:

serial.serialutil.SerialException: could not open port ‘COM3’: FileNotFoundError(2, ‘Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden.’, None, 2)

The simple solution was to use a different cable.

4) My original installation did not compile at all, it was throwing all sorts of errors that it could not find any libraries. I have no idea what I did wrong, I then simply erased the project, then created a simple demo project that worked, and then loaded MTC4BT again – then the errors were gone.

My next steps will now be to configure a first locomotive. Looking forwards to finally see it running 🙂
Thanks a lot for the great project!

[Matthias Runte]

Just wonderful! Thanks a lot for sharing your experience.

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