how to start real time tuning?

[Scrufdog]

I read something about the AA, on my setup I believe I have to change $31 to $AA, easy enough.

What I'm asking about is while Live editing, are the changes I make on tables automatically changed on the Autoprom, or do I have to do something to upload the changes every time I adjust something. Basically, does hitting the Commit Changes button update the bin on the Autoprom?

[EagleMark]

Yes, Commit changes and the bin is updated in TP and the AutoProm.

[Scrufdog]

Yes, Commit changes and the bin is updated in TP and the AutoProm.

...and at the end of the session, make sure to save the bin to disk, right?

[EagleMark]

I tend to save a lot and add version numbers on the end, V1, V2, V3 etc... throughout a tune in case I made a mistake and need to go back. But surely at the end of the day the bin get's saved.

[Scrufdog]

Good idea with the version numbers.

Thanks everyone. Thanks Mark.

I'll let ya know how things go, and of course I'll have more questions soon enough.

[Six_Shooter]

I believe you must first load a bin into the autoprom. Unless you have a chip in the autoprom already loaded with a bin.

Buddrow

Never have an EPROM in the EPROM socket of the AutoProm while emulating.


Coming up with a system that shows the progress through bins can be interesting. I think I finally have my system down, after years of trying different things. My format goes something like this: year.majorversionnumber.minorversionnumber.bin. I.E. 2014.2.9.bin I sometimes have a special note if I'm trying something very odd in the name, but not as much as I used to.

As far as the uploading to the autoprom goes, it can be both manual and automatically done.

You can have the hardware connected and not be emulating and then upload the entire bin after changes are made, be it one or many changes.

While emulating there are two ways to have changes uploaded, if you edit in the actual table of an item, you then need to hit the upload button found at the top left of that window. If you edit in a graph, then the change is uploaded automatically when you release the mouse button. You will hear a little sound when an uploaded is made. There are two sounds, one that is good, meaning that the upload was successful, and another that indicates that it was not successful, you'll figure out what the good sound is pretty quickly. ;)

As said, change the mask ID to $AA to emulate, if you don't the ECM can revert to LHM and tuning becomes impossible at that point.

[Scorp1us]

The AutoProm has built-in memory, which is accessed over a serial protocol that TunerPro knows how to speak.

You upload the bin to the emulator memory, then TP can modify the values at run time, when it's in emulation mode.
You're going to need to also have a ALDL connection active for logging and reading the data. Don't get confused like I did and think that the computer/TunerPro can read it's own values over the gray cable. It can't. The only way you can get to them is with the serial cable.