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mozzie
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Posted: 04:17am 15 Aug 2026

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G'day Palcal,
Have you tried setting OPTION MOUSE SENSITIVITY 1 in your option list, this often solves mouse related problems.

Bit odd seeing the keyboard twice, this may be an issue. Can you please post your option list and make / model of the keyboard / mouse you are using? someone may have seen this before.

Regards, Lyle.

palcal

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Posted: 05:03am 15 Aug 2026

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Thanks Lyle, OPTION MOUSE SENSITIVITY ONE seems to have fixed the mouse problem but still says Keyboard connected to Chanel 1 and Chanel 4
I tried 2 keyboards a Microsoft and a HP. If I disconnect and reconnect the keyboard it says KEYBOARD CONNECTED TO CHANEL 1 so it all works ok but I don't know why it also says Keyboard connected to chanel 4 on reboot.

Edited 2026-08-15 15:59 by palcal

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Bryan1

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Posted: 02:25am 17 Aug 2026

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Ok this is weird now I have 3D printed cases for my 5 boards I put the same .uf file on 4 boards, now board 1 and 2 have talking with each other for weeks so today setup board 3 and 4 only to find with exact same main.py and club.py it won't startup after a reset or power on.

Also I did put board 1's SDCard in and found the same problem where it didn't bootup on startup.

Now doing a run('/sd/club.py') does bootup club.py so something isn't right, I have edited the main.py on board 4 to be the same as board 2

Also when I had board 3 and board 4 running got the IP address's off Board 2 after they connected.

So surely this couldn't be a hardware issue

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Posted: 06:49am 17 Aug 2026

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Well after close to 2 hours found the problem both board 1 and 2 had a main.py on flash so by adding the main to flash on 3 and 4 fixed it

So now got 4 PICO 3 boards all running club.py and when any 2 are connected they auto connect to wifi then boot and with the GPS on one unit the other unit shows the GPS in the ticker window, file transfer is rock solid too so now got it all sorted for tomorrow night

So this afternoon working on 3D Model Editor where we finally fixed the 'Radius' function so it works nicely and when the push to github gets done I will provide a link.

Regards Bryan

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Posted: 02:30pm 17 Aug 2026

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palcal

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Posted: 03:08am 18 Aug 2026

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Everything was working well, I disconnected and switched USB Hub switch to disable so I could load a program but the serial port will not show up on TeraTerm or MMCC. I disconnected an reconnected hoding down the Boot switch and that works ok, so I have a connection but still no serial port.

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mozzie
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Posted: 04:17am 18 Aug 2026

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G'day Palcal,
If you are using a Pico Computer 3 and have the HDMI-USB firmware loaded, the Micro-USB port is for uploading firmware only.

If you connect to your PC via the USB-3 port and look for a "USB-SERIAL CH340" this is the port to connect to via TeraTerm / MMCC etc.

Please note this must be set to 115200-8-N-1 to work.

Regards, Lyle.

palcal

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Posted: 06:27am 18 Aug 2026

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Thanks for that Mozzie I knew it would be something simple that I overlooked, I was looking for the answer in the Pico Manual, guess I should have been reading through this thread.

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Bryan1

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Posted: 07:09am 18 Aug 2026

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This morning went and got the rest of the 2032 coin cells so all of my boards have the rtc and spent the morning getting board 3 and board 4 upto speed. So used the upload and took a picture of my car, renamed it as the phone will put a 20 digit filename then less than a minute later it showed on the screen of board 3.

So attached to my profile then sent my profile, main picture and thumbnail picture to Board 4 and sure enough it was there

So that's the club.py all ready for tonight with those boards, now with my last board I put HDMIUSBV6.03.01 on and it showed up on the lcd straight after booting.

6 Mbit of psram and doing a option list it was all configured so just had to put board 1 sdcard in to see if I could finally play mp.3's again.

Sure enough got into FM and clicked on a song and it played

now in micropython it wouldn't even open the music folder let alone play a mp3.

So my next project and why I'm doing it in MMBasic is for Lyle so he can look at the code. Mentioned my project to claude and he bolted the gate saying PIO2 is used for audio you have to disable it for stepper use. So tomorrow I will sort claude out and the first step is to get 3DModel Editor converted over to doing G-Code aswell as STL

Regards Bryan

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