Open source firmware and utilities for Minipro TL866xx series of chip programmers
This project's scope is dealing with the firmware within the TL866 itself. It includes software for dumping, reprogramming, and manipulating the firmware. Schematics and discussion of internal operations are also here.
Also here you can find a linux USB wrapper for TL866 and TL866II which make these programmers native software to work with Wine. The wrapper is located in wine folder.
sudo apt-get install build-essential pkg-config git libusb-1.0-0-dev libqt4-dev
git clone https://github.com/radiomanV/TL866
cd TL866/QT
qmake
make
sudo cp TL866_Updater /usr/local/bin
If you want to access the programmer as a regular user, you'll have to configure udev to recognize the programmer and set appropriate access permissions. These are the same rules as are available with https://github.com/vdudouyt/minipro. If you already installed the rules there, you don't need to do it again here.
sudo cp udev/debian/60-minipro.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
sudo udevadm trigger
You'll also have to add your regular user to the plugdev system
group:
sudo usermod -a -G plugdev YOUR-USER
Note that this change will only become effective after your next login.
sudo cp udev/centos7/80-minipro.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
The CentOS rules file currently make the programmer device writable for all users.
Follow instructions for Linux. You'll need libusb and libqt4 through a package installer. Macports has been used successfully. Udev doesn't exist for macOS so native IOKit is used instead.