this was the best tutorial out there for adding profile soundfonts. loved every explanation and the amount detail you went into for each section. thank you so much Zachary!

Excellent tutorial my man! Everything was explained perfectly and clearly and was easy to understand. Thanks a ton!!

You are awesome! Absolutely stellar video man. You are a great contributor to the galaxy. I have completely configured my Proffie S3 Aeryn with your instructions to my very liking. Thank you and MTFBWY!

Really appreciate these videos man, super informative and easy to follow 👍

I don’t have any lightsaber at the moment. But i love good tutorial videos to see device capability and you showed it very well. Now i am satisfied with proffie’s customizability. I am already so familiar with editing config files and arduion etc. So, this is not hard to me at all. But, i really liked it your tutorial! 😊

I watched 3 other videos yours by far was the easiest to follow.

The only "How to make Video" who helps me! Thx a lot !

Thanks for this video. However, please update it to not spread incorrect information. 5:21 The Arduino-Proffieboard plugin version under Boards Manager is not supposed to match the version board you have. One is a software patch version, one is a hardware version. They are unrelated. The plugin should always be updated to the latest , currently version 3.6.0. 7:13. This is bad, especially since it is so HEAVILY stressed as important. Yes, you need a USB cable that supports data transfer. There isn't such a thing as a "data only" cable. They either have BOTH data and power, or just power only for charging. CHARGING-ONLY CABLES WILL NOT FRY YOUR BOARD. It's an unfortunate rumor that has been spread, but it is just preposterous. The Proffieboard gets powered from the USB cable. It also uses data transfer to program the board. Of the 4 wires in a USB cable, 2 are power, 2 are data. A charging-only cable is rare, and typically only found for use with simple things that are rechargeable like an LED desk lamp, or a toy, or a flashlight. That said, there is 1000000% nothing wrong with plugging this into the Proffieboard. All you're going to get is an inconvenient situation where the board can't send/receive any data. It will power on and run like any USB cable plugged into it will do. There is zero risk involved and saying that there is in this video is just causing new users to panic/worry unnecessarily, and/or spending money for a cable when they likely already have one laying around that is just fine to use. Having battery power on (kill key pulled) is also 100% totally fine and makes no difference to the board. You could add/remove battery power all day while USB is connected, and the only thing it's going to do is make your sound booster active so your sound is not distorted. PLEASE redact the point you made to be so important. It causes a lot of headaches in supporting the community, and sends an incorrect message to the public. 34:00 This is also not how the force works. "Depending on which Lightsaber board you're using and what company, it might be SMTBOOTLOADER, some other name like that"..... "Sabertrio specifically has their boards named the CDC data...." Then you went and installed a driver for CDC data with Zadig. If people do this, they have connectivity problems and then come looking for help in the saber community forums. As you stressed, driver installation IS important, so you should explain how and why it is done correctly. It has nothing to do with "which company" your saber is from. Proffieboards either boot into normal mode, running ProffieOS, or bootloader mode (just like a PC can boot into normal Windows OS or into the BIOS to set core settings). Each of those states looks like a different device to the PC. Different devices require different drivers to talk to your computer properly. If you install the wrong driver for a device, it's not going to work, simply put. When booted normally and running ProffieOS, the board show up as a “Proffieboard”, a composite serial device (CDC data etc…) and will use usbser.sys driver. Windows typically sees this device when first connected and installs the driver on its own. When it's in bootloader mode and showing as STM32BOOTLOADER, it needs WinUSB v6.1.7600.16385 driver installed with Zadig. It's a one-time setup installation when the PC sees the board for the first time in bootloader mode. It needs this because Arduino is going to put the board in bootloader so the board can receive programming. Then when the upload is complete, the board reboots back into normal ProffieOS. *** If you do not put the Proffieboard into bootloader mode before running Zadig, you are doing it wrong, and installing the wrong driver for the board because it’s still connected as a “Proffieboard” composite device at that point. Putting the board into bootloader mode so you can run Zadig and install the correct driver for STM32BOOTLOADER device can be done 2 ways, either with the onboard buttons, or via Serial Monitor in Arduino. Button sequence is HOLD BOOT, PRESS and RELEASE RESET, then RELEASE BOOT. Serial Monitor command is simply choosing the COM port with the “Proffieboard” under Arduino menu Tools>Port, and sending the command RebootDFU. Thanks man!

thank you

Can you do an update video on this & how to change your file names & soundfonts from Ksith & many others?

Awesome tutorial. I have one question though. I have a Sabertrio Senza with an OLED screen. Out the box, no software updating or anything, I was able to add one greyscale font no problem, but the second one I deleted some of the default sounds to install a second one because I had gone over on my board space. Have you had this issue and is this something that can be fixed?

This tutorial is awesome, and incredibly helpful. This got me all the way there aside from one extra snag on my end. When I would try uploading, it would spit out 10 errors saying "Cannot open DFU device 0483:df11". After that the CDC Data under Universal Serial Bus Devices would disappear, and then STM32 BOOTLOADER would show up in Other devices with an ! icon, when it wasn't there previously. To fix it I basically had to install the driver again to the STM32 BOOTLOADER via the dropdown in zadig, just like we did with the CDC Data (Interface 2) driver, and that got things working for me. Here were the instructions I followed for that on a random github posting: Start Zadig Select Options -> List All Devices Select STM32 BOOTLOADER from the device dropdown Verify that the USB ID is 0483 df11, if it is not, do not proceed! Select WinUSB (v6.1.7600.16385) as new driver Click Replace Driver For me, it only had "install" as an option because it had no driver to replace for STM32 BOOTLOADER in my case. Once I installed I was able to upload to the saber and continue this tutorial. Hope that helps anyone else that ran into the same problem I did. :) Thanks again for this tutorial!

Thank you for this video it was very helpful. I unfortunately cannot get my SaberTrio uploaded with new fonts because I keep getting a compiling error that I can not figure out. I did a bunch of research and read/posted to forums but still no luck. Have you run into an error like this: fork/exec /Users/myname/Library/Arduino15/packages/proffieboard/tools/arm-none-eabi-gcc/9-2020-q2-update/bin/arm-none-eabi-g++: no such file or directory Error compiling for board Proffieboard V2. Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Hi Zach! Love your video! The only issue I have when uploading at the end it says: cannot open DFU device 0483:df11 Can you help me please?

Would this work for other saber makes such as Sabertheory?

Great tutorial, my question is, where the hell do I get a data only micro usb cable from?, checked online, amazon and ebay, but it just brings up data and charger cables not data only.

Its showing up under Arduino as Com 4 proffie board but Its not showing up under the drives as sabertrio anywhere like at 36:00 How do i make it show up as a drive letter like in the video??

question my arduino uses a micro usb cable and is a different model from yours so is the data cable rule still apply?

Great video, the best i've found so far but I do have one question. Im not sure if this started after i added an Ahsoka font but I didn't notice it before. Whenever I flip the kill switch on my Proffie Aeryn the illuminated witch stays on but not at full brightness it is very dim. Does this have to do with the new font or does it always do that?

I was able to follow the video up until 30:45 where I had to connect my lightsaber directly to the computer. When doing so, my computer makes a sound as if the saber is connecting, the it disconnects and repeats this infinitely :( I feel like Im so close but ran into an odd issue..

When i uploaded the Arduino file after the upload is complete the PC is automatically kick out my pc. It will uploaded but I can't use any new fonts it's there but I can't access it via the saber

I just got a Kybersaber saber and when I go to the SD card I dont have a config file like yours so I cant add blade styles in the config file and the blade styles are in the font folder. Is it different for all sabers?

So I’m doing this on my Mac laptop and when I plug my saber in, nothing pops up so I can’t get into my config. Any ideas?

I'm having problems I installed boot loader 32 ok after a few attempts but my saber still does not show on my pc.

I honestly give up on adding new sound fonts,I did everything this video said and still got errors in arduino,I also tried what others said but I still get errors in arduino, the only way I can add some new sound fonts is the quick way where I remove the other sound fonts the saber came with

Great vid. Can you add gesture controls to this config?

when i add my config file from my saber to the proffie config it show up as a file folder an not a HI File not sure what I'm doing wrong also my proffie looks ten times different when I open it in Arduino i have no idea what I'm doing wrong can some one plz help me

I keep getting "code error" for the (GREY) soundfont. No clue whats going on. I copied exactly from the .txt file GF provided. Help.

Help! I'm following along and everything is working except when I try to flash the config to my board, it seems to disconnect right before it flashes and gives me an error that the directory is invalid. I noticed it then changes the name from "Sabertrio" to "STM32 Bootloader". Everything works when I verify the files but when I try to upload this happens. Any idea how to fix?

I get to the last step and it verifies fine but then it says “cannot open DFU device

for some reason even when trying to use zadig i am unable to see my saber !

this is weird because I went to the exact same website you did, but when I try to look for 'preferences ' under 'file' I don't see it at all.

How do I add Kyberphonics blade styles to my proffie board when there are no blade styles included? I used those files on my snv4 and they worked great.

mine does not have an "extra" folder and there is no way to config...?

I followed this to the T, i dunno what i am doing wrong but the fonts are not applying properly.

Hi Zach, I’ve followed all the steps however when I edit the config files it says that I don’t have access when I try to save them even though it says I can “read and write” under permissions. I’m on a Mac. Any tips? Super frustrating. Thank you.

Whenever I connect the micro SD to my computer it tells me I need to format it

Do we need to click a specific version at the top of fetts site?

FUCKING BROVO! Thank you for this video

IM DOING EVERYTHING RIGHT BUT WHEN I UNPLUG MY SABER AFTER SUCCESFULLY UPLOADING THE NEW FILES, TURN THE SABER ON, THE SOUNDFONT ISNT ON THE SABER

Does anyone know where to find an only data usb cord I keep finding them with charging and data

I got a proffie sabertrio and sometimes my saber just does an "alarm" sound and I cant do anything until I turn off the kill switch to restart it. It is really frustrating and I dont know what to do. If someone knows how to fix it I would really apreciate your help.

so do you need to take the SD card out? I can see everything on the SD card just by plugging in the saber itself, can I not do it like this?

Very nice video, thank you for your explain, 8:00 How do i know if is a power cable or a data cable ?

in the config file it says theirs a bak file version of it. Did you have that?

If the company you got the soundfont off gives you the blade style and sounds, does the blade style also go into the config file or is that somewhere else separate from the sound in the config?

If your running a mac, you’ll have to do the “Windows mirror” to run arduino properly, on mac it’s supper glitchy!!!

hello, thank you for the very helpful tutorial! I managed to follow through every steps and when I click 'upload' on arduino, when it says 'Done uploading', the saber does not reconnect, seems the config file is not updated, and I notice in my arduino the log states blank numbers like below: 1 2 3 4 and so on until 10 the only difference I have with you is that my port is COM6 (Proffieboard) rather than COM3, not sure if this is an issue. I have installed a driver for CDC data. if it helps when I re-plug my PC says "we found errors on this drive"

Why is this stuff so long and complicated, why not just a premade setup just aaaahhh especially for the sound fonts you buy. Also for me, there are no other devices in the device manager and I know my saber is plugged in and connected cause it beeps but can't find the saber anywhere. I found it on the device manager labeled as USB composite device and I can't find it on zadig I can't restart the board for one of the small buttons broke off and I tried to press them both at the same time and nothing happens....... I think I'm done fuck it.

Hi i have a problem with the blade writes, i have 4 different folders 🤌; LGT1Button32 / LGT1Button32NoGes / LGT1Button36 / LGT1Button36NoGes. i think i must work on 36 of course cause i have a 36'' blade but i don t know how to do. can u help me please i am italian and there is no video about this in my country i am going crazy !!!!

Great tutorial, my question is, where the hell do I get a data only micro usb cable from?, checked online, amazon and ebay, but it just brings up data and charger cables not data only.