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panky

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Posted: 04:33pm 20 Apr 2017

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@Geoff

Fix works fine, thanks. Out of curiosity, can you indicate where the issue was? I had a look at the source but my very rudimentary knowledge of C was not enough to see the problem.

Cheers,
Doug.

... for matherp - problem also exists on the MZ 144 board running 5.03.04

... almost all of the Maximites, the MicromMites, the MM Extremes, the ArmMites, the PicoMite and loving it!

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Posted: 06:09pm 20 Apr 2017

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geoff: is there any chance you could also roll in the fix for the cut-and-paste bug in the editor? i've tested the fix fairly well, and it does work. in the file editor.c, edit the line:

for(p = txtp; p <= mark; p++) if(*p == '\n') nbrlines--;

to instead read:

for(p = txtp; p < mark; p++) if(*p == '\n') nbrlines--;

ie, replace "<=" with "<" in order to not decrement nbrlines in response to a CR character sitting right after (but still outside of) the block of marked text.

cheers,
rob :-)

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Posted: 07:31am 21 Apr 2017

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panky said Fix works fine, thanks. Out of curiosity, can you indicate where the issue was? I had a look at the source but my very rudimentary knowledge of C was not enough to see the problem.

Thanks Doug,

The second line below (uSec(600);) was missing. It was in all versions up to 5.0 but then went AWOL! How come? I don't know.

for(i = 0; i < 12; i++) {
uSec(600);
if(cmd & 1)
IRSendSignal(pin, 92);
else
IRSendSignal(pin, 46);
cmd >>= 1;
}

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Posted: 07:47am 21 Apr 2017

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robert.rozee said geoff: is there any chance you could also roll in the fix for the cut-and-paste bug in the editor? i've tested the fix fairly well, and it does work.

Hi Rob, that release was just intended to test the fix for the IR bug and I have plenty of other improvements to go before the next release - but your bug fix is so simple that I have recomplied the source with your fix (now ver 5.3.4) and attached it below.
2017-04-21_174354_Micromite-V5.3.4.zip

Hopefully that has fixed it.

Geoff

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jovian
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Posted: 02:59am 27 Apr 2017

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Success!!

Received the PicKit yesterday and have managed to upgrade the firmware no problem - IR SEND is working brilliantly, first time.

Thanks for the incredible response Geoff and all for investigating. I'm getting such a hit off of this!

I'll post a link to the end result when it's time, I intend to make it flash!

Cheers all
Joe

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Posted: 08:55pm 14 Nov 2020

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I've been considering using Infrared instead of HC-12 as a MM to MM link

I've been reading the manual and while it's probably dead simple for those that understand it, to me it doesn't make sense
Could anyone explain it in a simple way?

I won't be using any device code? but another MM so I don't know the key code

I'll be using this on a Pi-Cromite as the TX and Armmite as the RX
IF I've understood properly then this "may" work
pin 20 is the MM pin

system "wget -q -O- "+p$+"https://api.darksky.net/forecast/458113cd1162af4b1f0677d08822fbaf/53.440120,-2.106181?units=uk2&exclude=flags,alerts,minutely"+p$,a()
prob$=JSON$(a(),"currently.precipProbability")'Chance of Rain/Snow
vis$=JSON$(a(),"currently.visibility")'visibility
cloud$=JSON$(a(),"currently.cloudCover")'Cloud Cover
IR SEND 20,vis$,cloud$,prob$ : PAUSE 26 : IR SEND 20,vis$,cloud$,prob$ :IR SEND 20,vis$,cloud$,prob$

I can't believe it's this simple and it maybe that you can only send numbers?
But I saw earlier that you can do MM to MM communication

Is there a way to do this so it will work?

TassyJim

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Posted: 09:59pm 14 Nov 2020

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Quote IR SEND pin, dev, key
Generate a 12-bit Sony Remote Control protocol infrared signal.
'pin' is the I/O pin to use. This can be any I/O pin which will be automatically configured as an output and should be connected to an infrared LED.
Idle is low with high levels indicating when the LED should be turned on.
'dev' is the device being controlled and is a number from 0 to 31, 'key' is the simulated key press and is a number from 0 to 127.
The IR signal is modulated at about 38KHz and sending the signal takes about 25mS.

The SONY codes can be any number from 0 to 127 so you can send text as individual characters. The system doesn't care of you are turning on your TV or feeding the cat. It's just a number to the firmware.

You have to send the characters one at a time where 'key' is asc(char)

It will be slow.

Jim

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lew247

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Posted: 09:10am 15 Nov 2020

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TassyJim said
The SONY codes can be any number from 0 to 127 so you can send text as individual characters. The system doesn't care of you are turning on your TV or feeding the cat. It's just a number to the firmware.

You have to send the characters one at a time where 'key' is asc(char)

It will be slow.

Jim

Ah, that means you can't send a decimal point... �so that means you cannot use it as a serial transmiter/receiver because you can only send numbers and not letters?
Edited 2020-11-15 19:46 by lew247

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Posted: 10:59am 15 Nov 2020

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You can send ANY of the 128 characters including letters, numbers, punctuation etc.
It will be very slow.
To send a character, you give it's ascii code.

Jim

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Posted: 02:08pm 15 Nov 2020

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TassyJim said You can send ANY of the 128 characters including letters, numbers, punctuation etc.
It will be very slow.
To send a character, you give it's ascii code.
Jim

IF I've got you right I have to convert vis$, cloud$ and prob$ to their ascii codes then send them in one go?

If I IR SEND 20,vis$,cloud$,prob$ : PAUSE 26 : IR SEND 20,vis$,cloud$,prob$ :IR SEND 20,vis$,cloud$,prob$

with vis$ being 10.7 which would be 49484655
and cloud$ being 203 which would be 504851
and prob$ being 70% which would be 554837
so in effect it would be I could send

IR SEND 20,49484655,504851,554837 : PAUSE 26 : IR SEND 20,49484655,504851,554837 : IR SEND 20,49484655,504851,554837

or would it be
IR SEND 20,49484655504851554837 : PAUSE 26 : IR SEND 20,49484655504851554837 : IR SEND 20,49484655504851554837

TassyJim

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Posted: 08:11pm 15 Nov 2020

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For n = 1 to len(vis$)
ch$ = mid$(vis$,n,1)
IR SEND 20, asc(ch$)
next n

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Posted: 10:14pm 15 Nov 2020

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Here is a working example.
You will need to change the IR sending pin number to suit your hardware.

OPTION EXPLICIT
OPTION DEFAULT NONE
DIM INTEGER p = 15 ' IR sending pin
DIM INTEGER dev = 4 ' anything will do as long as the receiver uses the same number

DIM cloud$ = "203"
TIMER = 0
sendIR cloud$
PRINT TIMER

SUB sendIR txt$
LOCAL INTEGER n
LOCAL ch$
FOR n = 1 TO LEN(txt$)
ch$ = MID$(txt$,n,1)
IR SEND p,dev,ASC(ch$)
NEXT n
END SUB

It takes 58mS to send 3 characters which is about 50 characters per second.
Very slow!

Jim

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lew247

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Posted: 11:47am 16 Nov 2020

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Thanks Jim. I totally understand how to send the data

now to work on understanding how to reverse it and extract the data on receive

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