[Solved] Serial USB for Blue Pill board

[stevestrong]

http://stm32duinoforum.com/forum/index.php?title=Installation

Under the link you have been warned that the boards manager package installation method of Roger's core is deprecated and not supported by this forum.

[fredbox]

But this cannot be found in the documentation so far.

If you need something that has good documentation, I suggest that you pick up a copy of the book "Beginning STM32" by Warren Gay. This book is written for the Blue Pill, but doesn't use the Arduino or any of the cores or libraries found on this forum. If you have a Safari Books account, you can read it there. Google books has some of it: https://books.google.com/books?id=UYteD ... &q&f=false

[mrburnette]

No need to buy a book if you are not looking for Arduino-ish info:
Discovering the STM32 Microcontroller
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source= ... n/book.pdf

[lsmod]

Thank you for the book recommendations!

Here are the files for the book from Warren Gay:
https://github.com/Apress/Beg-STM32-Dev ... pencm3-GCC

Under the link you have been warned that the boards manager package installation method of Roger's core is deprecated and not supported by this forum.

No need for warnings.
The problem has been solved within my expectations - everything is fine now!

[fredbox]

Here is another guide: https://www.hitex.com/fileadmin/documen ... 8d-scr.pdf

[lsmod]

I like the book from Warren Gay to understand some basic things.
Mostly he writes what i am really interested for and points out the basic facts.

But it is a problem that he is using examples that base on FreeRTOS and libopencm3,
but STM32duino is basing on the Leaflabs based core viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3111.

That's really annoying and very unpractical.
You read about an good example, understand it, but you cannot use it in STM32duino.
Then you have to search an working example for STM32duino and must understand again.
Regulary you will find not an similar example and you are standing there frustrated without an solution ...

How can this problem be solved?
Is the only solution to drop STM32duino and go his way without Arduino?
(Same idea in the middle of 2016 http://stm32duinoforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1218)

As i have written i see the main advantage of Arduino to use existant libraries for external components like sensors and displays etc.
But in the wiki i can't found any positive feedback about this http://stm32duinoforum.com/forum/index.php?t ... :Libraries ?


(Maybe this should be moved to the General discussion?)

[stevestrong]

The problem has been solved within my expectations - everything is fine now!

If solved, then leave it that way.
Open a new topic for any other question.

[Rick Kimball]

For a long while this thread was staying on topic. If you want to talk about books and documentation start another topic. I've locked this topic.

At least USB functionality can be added as usual as a library via "#include ".
But this cannot be found in the documentation so far.

To answer your original question, the reason the USBComposite library isn't documented in the core is because it is a newly included user library. User libraries typically aren't packaged with cores, however Arduino_STM32 isn't usual is it User libraries usually are born from a blog entry or forum post. User libraries typically provide most of their documentation with examples.

This library follows that path:

See: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2926&hilit=USBComposite
See: https://github.com/rogerclarkmelbourne/ ... e/examples