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Well i was going to have a go again with the stupid STM Cube software only to find I cant log into the website - update my password.... really just the usual bollocks from a manufacturer obviously too big to give a toss......
 
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Re: So is it me or is the STM website still a stupid waste of time ?
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2018, 10:17:26 pm »
Calling it stupid isn't the greatest way to start off.
Here you go: http://www.st.com/resource/en/library2/stm32cube_mx_v4250.zip
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Re: So is it me or is the STM website still a stupid waste of time ?
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2018, 10:21:20 pm »
turns out i was logged in although no indication was given and the page acted like the login button was not working....... as it just did not do anything visible to signal a successful login so yes it is a stupid website designed by stupid people, I have never seen another website like it.....
 

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Re: So is it me or is the STM website still a stupid waste of time ?
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2018, 03:29:50 am »
Well i was going to have a go again with the stupid STM Cube software only to find I cant log into the website - update my password.... really just the usual bollocks from a manufacturer obviously too big to give a toss......
What is STM?

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Re: So is it me or is the STM website still a stupid waste of time ?
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2018, 08:19:35 am »
It's a chip manufacturer, they make all sorts from 7805 regulators to ARM microcontrollers.
 

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Re: So is it me or is the STM website still a stupid waste of time ?
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2018, 10:11:52 am »
Yes it is stupid.

You also need to login to download their CMSIS libraries. I don't know why anyone would (hint: for their USB stack, as no one would write their own), but it's still infuriating.
 

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Re: So is it me or is the STM website still a stupid waste of time ?
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2018, 01:47:46 pm »
It's part of all that legal stuff more or less to control if the software is not downloaded in N. Korea or so...
 

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Re: So is it me or is the STM website still a stupid waste of time ?
« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2018, 01:51:19 pm »
Yea really fool proof like the TI website where all I have to do is tick the boxes on the download form and hit go, they would never know the difference.
 

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Re: So is it me or is the STM website still a stupid waste of time ?
« Reply #8 on: April 03, 2018, 01:52:15 pm »
Yeah. Annoying, but a lof of other vendors do the same.
As I remember, you can't download much from Microchip without being logged in, except the datasheets. Same for most downloads at Lattice. Etc...
 

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Re: So is it me or is the STM website still a stupid waste of time ?
« Reply #9 on: April 03, 2018, 01:56:19 pm »
yea, Atmel used to do it as well.
 

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Re: So is it me or is the STM website still a stupid waste of time ?
« Reply #10 on: April 03, 2018, 05:50:44 pm »
There is a post somewhere on the STM website that, as I understand it, explains that the company that supplied the forum software was taken over and support for the forum software ended at the takeover. Hence I couldn't access the site for several weeks because of a bug in unsupported software that STM had to go to some lengths to get fixed.

The site still sucks though, why they couldn't choose something like the software for this forum or the arduino forum or a million others that work well I don't know.
 

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Re: So is it me or is the STM website still a stupid waste of time ?
« Reply #11 on: April 03, 2018, 07:45:56 pm »
There seems to be a fad for companies writing their own forums which is completely unnecessary and invariably results in bad quality software or something that defies most people's logic in it's use. a good example is the element14 forum.
 


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