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buoyant wigeon Dec 16, 2018, 9:59 PM

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@meager fog OK... but I have midnight here... I will be back tomorrow 🙁

meager fog Dec 16, 2018, 9:59 PM

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l8r!

solar whale Dec 16, 2018, 9:59 PM

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did have to start twice -- I have an idea about that

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In the reset function it does ```def reset(self, program_mode=False):
"""Perform a hard-reset into ROM bootloader using gpio0 and reset"""
print("Resetting")
self._gpio0pin.value = not program_mode

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if it was low, it puts it high -- then on secon run it goes low

meager fog Dec 16, 2018, 10:05 PM

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mm

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you want it held low during program

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and set high during run

solar whale Dec 16, 2018, 10:07 PM

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right, but this set it high before the RESET. doesn't it?

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if program_mode = False then not program_mode is True

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It is not set during init -- so is it High or low

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reset() is only calles at the end to put it back high, but I'm not sure what state it is in at the start,

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does setting it as an output make it low to start?

meager fog Dec 16, 2018, 10:16 PM

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@solar whale i had to revert back some of the uart.read(1)'s cause readine one byte at a time cuases buff overruns

solar whale Dec 16, 2018, 10:18 PM

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OK -- I'll take a look and see if it impacts any of the other boards -- it's been frustrating trying to come up with common ways of handing it.

meager fog Dec 16, 2018, 10:18 PM

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yah

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like the M4 can't deal with one byte at a time, so we ge ta lot of failures

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you can check os.uname at init and set a max-uart-read-size

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or a flag

solar whale Dec 16, 2018, 10:19 PM

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ah -- yeah - thre are some signifiant diffeences inthe M4 and nrf UART handlers

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OK -- I'll look into it -- was trying not to bloat the code with too many alternate paths.

meager fog Dec 16, 2018, 10:21 PM

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np

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the M4 can handle the code lines, but the uart isn't big

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we'll get the nrf52 uart caught up eventually

solar whale Dec 16, 2018, 10:22 PM

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eventually we may want to add flow control ... 😬

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I have to run -- thansk so much for all the work on this -- it's great to see it working!

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now taht uart.in_waiting works on the nrf -- those chages may not cause any problems - I'll test later tonight or tomorrow

meager fog Dec 16, 2018, 10:30 PM

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np

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yep we'll work it out

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at least minitool is done

gleaming magnet Dec 16, 2018, 11:01 PM

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Remote control ornament with CPE error's and not working .

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CPE is version 3.1.1 and getting error --> File "main.py", line 1, in <module>
MemoryError: memory allocation failed, allocating 696 bytes. I am able to load simple programs without issue so the basics should be OK.

tulip sleet Dec 16, 2018, 11:07 PM

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@gleaming magnet is it the same main.py as in the remote control ornament guide?

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are you using the .mpy version of adafruit_irremote?

gleaming magnet Dec 16, 2018, 11:08 PM

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Yes and I am using ir 389. I am using the py version of adafruit_irremote

tulip sleet Dec 16, 2018, 11:09 PM

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please use the .mpy version from the library bundle. the .py version is compiled when imported and there's not enough RAM to to do that.

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https://learn.adafruit.com/welcome-to-circuitpython/circuitpython-libraries

gleaming magnet Dec 16, 2018, 11:11 PM

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OK thank you for the help! Very much appreciated. Sorry for the newbie questions.

tulip sleet Dec 16, 2018, 11:11 PM

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no problem! - there's a lot to learn up front. Circle back if you have problems.

meager fog Dec 16, 2018, 11:26 PM

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k @solar whale guide is live

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https://learn.adafruit.com/adding-a-wifi-co-processor-to-circuitpython-esp8266-esp32

Adding a WiFI Co-Processor to CircuitPython

Surf the 'net with Blinka!

tawny creek Dec 16, 2018, 11:55 PM

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Yay awesome!! @meager fog @solar whale !!! I have been running the Bitcoin example and been testing it over a few hours but sometimes need to do a hard reset to get it going again. Is this a known issue?

solar whale Dec 16, 2018, 11:58 PM

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@tawny creek I have not seen that. I do get many retries but it recovers. What boards are you using?

tawny creek Dec 17, 2018, 12:20 AM

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@solar whale an m4 feather express with an esp8266

solar whale Dec 17, 2018, 12:23 AM

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I have not run that combo for extended time . I’ll try to reproduce. What happens when it needs a reset? If you have any examples of output it might help a. Also post the code if you have made any changes to the example.

manic glacierBOT Dec 17, 2018, 12:40 AM

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cedeber

[adafruit/circuitpython] New star added

manic glacierBOT Dec 17, 2018, 1:36 AM

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dhalbert

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on issue #1396: Problems enabling LTO build on nrf

@simark hmm, that's too bad.

the -flto build works in the latest micropython. So there's something different, but I haven't found it yet.

So far, none of these fixed the problem:

Tried the micropython *.ld files.
Tried matching the compile options exactly (very minor differences).
Tried using builtin libm (which MPy uses)

Unfortunately, due to Nordic breaking their old downloads, it's difficult to do a bisect from some time in the past (like before tinyusb, etc.)

tawny creek Dec 17, 2018, 1:48 AM

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@solar whale will do! I’ve left mine running for a few days and needs a hard reset 2-3x. When it needs a reset the neopixel blinks yellow 5/6 times and blue 8 times — i think that indicates the error but I don’t have it connected to a monitor as it runs. Is there a way to log errors on runtime reliably?

solar whale Dec 17, 2018, 2:07 AM

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@tawny creek Ah. Sounds like it is rebooting for some reasons. I have seen startup issues. Sometimes it needs a reset at first run. I don’t usually run it as code.py but manually start it. There is still some work be done making this more reliable.

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I will set one up to run overnight and see how it does.

tough flax Dec 17, 2018, 2:40 AM

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@solar whale and @meager fog - great work! This ties directly into an idea I've had about cutting a trace and/or pin off a Huzzah Feather to turn it into a Wing 😃

meager fog Dec 17, 2018, 2:51 AM

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@tawny creek its...very rough currently

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if you turn on debug, you can see where failures occur. make sure you have good power, the ESP can draw a ton

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you can keep it connected to a REPL so we can see what line its failing on

tawny creek Dec 17, 2018, 4:19 AM

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@meager fog Thanks! ok! shall see what i can find :)! #detective-mode 🕵

manic glacierBOT Dec 17, 2018, 4:21 AM

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simark

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on issue #1396: Problems enabling LTO build on nrf

Ok, thanks for looking into it. I'll try to compare with micropython as well next time I work on this.

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dhalbert

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on issue #1396: Problems enabling LTO build on nrf

I too want to get this to work, because we could use the space, especially on the nRF528325 build.

tough flax Dec 17, 2018, 4:37 AM

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I'm seeing an error periodically on a Trinket M0: OSError: [Errno 5] EIO

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If I wait a bit and reload it goes away

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Thoughts?

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Some more details - if I change main.py it reloads cleanly. If I change one of the files I'm loading ("settings.ini") then it resets the board, but about 80% of the time it fails with that error

tough flax Dec 17, 2018, 5:01 AM

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It's not failing on open(), it's failing on fetching a line from the fp

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Here's the code (it's not pretty)

   def read(self, filename=None, fp=None):
        state=READING_GLOBALS
        modeName = None
#      """Read and parse a filename or a list of filenames."""
        if not fp and not filename:
            print("ERROR : no filename and no fp")
            raise
        elif not fp and filename:
            fp = open(filename, 'rt')
        
        curMode = None
        for line in fp:
            print(line)
            #remove the comment
            parts = line.split(";", 1)
            value = str(parts[0]).strip()
            if (value == ''):
                continue
            #debug(value)
            if (state == READING_GLOBALS):
                if (value[0]=='[' and value[-1]==']'): #new  mode name
                    modeName = value[1:-1]
                    state = READING_MODE
                    curMode = Mode(modeName)
                    self.modes.append(curMode)
                else:#reading global setting
                    settingParts = line.split("=",1)
                    self.globalSettings[settingParts[0].strip()] = settingParts[1].strip()
            elif (state == READING_MODE):
                if (value[0]=='[' and value[-1]==']'): #new  mode name
                    #debug(self.modes[modeName].settings)
                    #debug(self.modes[modeName].triggers)
                    modeName = value[1:-1]
                    curMode = Mode(modeName)
                    self.modes.append(curMode)
                elif (value[0].isdigit()):#new triggers
                    curMode.triggers.append(Trigger(value))
                else:#setting
                    settingParts = line.split("=",1)
                    curMode.settings[settingParts[0].strip()] = settingParts[1].strip()

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print(line) is just for debugging... it prints up through about 80% of the file then fails (on a comment)

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This is a big problem for me - having the end user edit settings.ini is a big part of why I'm using this stuff... if they have unplug/replug every time they edit it's kind of difficult.

tough flax Dec 17, 2018, 5:40 AM

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Ugh... latest CP won't fit on Trinket M0 if you freeze in HID

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ACK

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Ok, doesn't do it when editing with Notepad, but does with Notepad++

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Ok, I found the notes about the various editors.. but this is weird, because the file IS fully written... it's not corrupted. And when the main.py file is modified and the board fully resets the changes I made to the file are there. And adding a delay before reading it doesn't change anything

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Anyway, I will give instructions to use Notepad & eject the drive... but it would be nice if we could detect this.

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(I need to have problems during normal working hours)

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This is exactly my problem (reading history now - I may bug @tulip sleet tomorrw) https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/issues/111

GitHub

Delayed writes and auto-reset problems when writing from Windows ...

I have had problems writing to the onboard filesystem from Windows. I sometimes see complete filesystem corruption, and sometimes just problems with one file. See https://forums.adafruit.com/viewto...

slender iron Dec 17, 2018, 8:04 AM

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<@&356864093652516868> Meeting notes for tomorrow are here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DhFiFKPp-k4LKHvd0f5AdB3Zq_IF1MjqvHdZPplVhAQ/edit?usp=sharing Talk with you soon!

Google Docs

CircuitPython Weekly December 17th, 2018

CircuitPython Weekly December 17th, 2018 Next meeting will be Thursday December 27th and then January 7th, 2019 to start the new year. Join us on Discord any time: adafru.it/discord. State of CircuitPython + Libraries Overall Core Libraries Hug reports @tannewt @jerryn ...

tough flax Dec 17, 2018, 8:10 AM

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I do not understand why deleting files makes me run out of memory on the Trinket M0

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And how can the same UF2 file sometimes fail on memory allocation and sometimes succeed?

manic glacierBOT Dec 17, 2018, 9:03 AM

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ATMakersBill

[adafruit/circuitpython] Issue opened: #1406 Memory issues w/HID Frozen into CP

Hi folks,

I'm very frustrated - in advance, sorry if this ends up being my fault.

I have a custom build of CP for the Trinket M0 that freezes in HID per Kattni & Dan's instructions. This is necessary because I want to have a device that uses HID & Dotstar as well as parsing a config file.

I have put my parsing logic into an .mpy file and everything just fits... except when it doesn't.

The same chip, with the same UF2 file boots 80% of the time and the other 20 fails with
Mem...

manic glacierBOT Dec 17, 2018, 12:01 PM

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deshipu

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on issue #1406: Memory issues w/HID Frozen into CP

I'm not sure if you tried that already, but you can also remove the parts that you are not using from the CircuitPython image. I discovered that, for example, removing AnalgoIO saves a lot of space. Then HID might fit?

marble hornet Dec 17, 2018, 1:41 PM

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anyone recognize this error? make: msgfmt: No such file or directory make: *** [build-metro_m4_express/genhdr/en_US.mo] Error 1 Jonahs-MacBook-Pro:atmel-samd jonahym$

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im compiling 4.x

manic glacierBOT Dec 17, 2018, 2:36 PM

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dhalbert

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on issue #1406: Memory issues w/HID Frozen into CP

Hi Bill, make sure that only the .mpy version of whatever is on CIRCUITPY. The .py will be used in preference to the .mpy if it's present. Are you also mpy-cross'ing main.py? That will help.

I don't have an explanation for why it works sometimes but not other times, but it may simply be timing, which may affect where RAM gets allocated. This sounds more like fragmentation than literally running out of RAM.

I don't think going to 4.x is going to make it more stable, but you can try. To m...

raven canopy Dec 17, 2018, 3:50 PM

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@marble hornet try running make translate before building firmware.

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I think it's translate. goes looking

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Yep!

manic glacierBOT Dec 17, 2018, 4:32 PM

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ladyada

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on issue #1389: enabling MICROPY\_CPYTHON\_COMPAT fails to build for nrf

@jerryneedell heya is this issue resolved?

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ladyada

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on issue #1307: Request: include json support

@robmarkcole fyi i've been using ujson on m4 builds, seems to work well! try it out :)

slender iron Dec 17, 2018, 5:36 PM

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@marble hornet msgfmt is provided by gettext

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so brew install gettext

tulip sleet Dec 17, 2018, 5:51 PM

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@tough flax

Ok, doesn't do it when editing with Notepad, but does with Notepad++
Ok, I found the notes about the various editors.. but this is weird, because the file IS fully written... it's not corrupted. And when the main.py file is modified and the board fully resets the changes I made to the file are there. And adding a delay before reading it doesn't change anything
Anyway, I will give instructions to use Notepad & eject the drive... but it would be nice if we could detect this.

NOTEPAD is not a good choice either. It doesn't fully write the file immediately.

Note that you can't tell whether the file is written or not by looking at it from Windows. Windows shows you what it thinks the file should be from its point of view, but that doesn't mean that's really what's on the flash drive

manic glacierBOT Dec 17, 2018, 5:52 PM

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jerryneedell

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on issue #1389: enabling MICROPY\_CPYTHON\_COMPAT fails to build for nrf

yes - fixed by #1395

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jerryneedell

[adafruit/circuitpython] Issue closed: #1389 enabling MICROPY\_CPYTHON\_COMPAT fails to build for nrf

manic glacierBOT Dec 17, 2018, 6:46 PM

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jerryneedell

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on issue #1391: uart\.in\_waiting always zero for nrf

fixed by #1402

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jerryneedell

[adafruit/circuitpython] Issue closed: #1391 uart\.in\_waiting always zero for nrf

fierce girder Dec 17, 2018, 6:49 PM

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FYI , On voice, but lurking today.

timber mango Dec 17, 2018, 6:54 PM

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Lurking too

meager fog Dec 17, 2018, 7:01 PM

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text only

slender iron Dec 17, 2018, 7:02 PM

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<@&356864093652516868> meeting starting in a minute

tidal kiln Dec 17, 2018, 7:03 PM

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lurking

manic glacierBOT Dec 17, 2018, 7:03 PM

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jerryneedell

[adafruit/circuitpython] Issue opened: #1407 large data burst hangs UART on nrf52840

While testing the use of the ESP8266 AT firmware when connected to an nrf52840 board via the UART on board.RX//TX I found that the UART RX would "hang" (stio receiving) if I RESET the ESP8266 -- The RESET sends out a failrly large burst of data.
A RESET can be triggered by a hard reset or by issuing the AT+RST command if the ATFirmware is installed on the ESP8266

The condition may be cleared by uart.deinit() the recreating the uart. (or by resetting the nrf52840)

It also occurs wit...

slender iron Dec 17, 2018, 7:11 PM

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nX1Z9qq2HGXmRyWQCtUQJR3JiWdtbOJfMmT6rfo3bWs/edit?usp=sharing

Google Docs

What do you want from CircuitPython in 2019

What do you want from CircuitPython in 2019? #CircuitPython2019 As 2018 comes to a close we like to reflect on how the year went and set goals for 2019. In the last two years (2017, 2018) this has been a blog post by me (Scott aka tannewt). For 2019, we’d like to do it a bi...

idle owl Dec 17, 2018, 7:14 PM

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https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/issues/1246

GitHub

CircuitPython Libraries! · Issue #1246 · adafruit/circuitpython

This is the place to stay up-to-date on the state of the CircuitPython libraries. We will be updating this issue each week with the most recent status from the wonderful Adabot! If you'd like t...

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@meager fog Feel free to post your hug reports and status updates, we're about there 😃

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@slender iron Brennen's in the notes.

meager fog Dec 17, 2018, 7:16 PM

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thanks to @tidal kiln for helping so much with issues and support, its incredibly helpful!

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and @solar whale for getting particle argon wifi working, and helping with the ESP co-processor hacking

inland tusk Dec 17, 2018, 7:17 PM

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I will be lurking today, group hug

neat folio Dec 17, 2018, 7:19 PM

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@errant grail nice radio voice 😃

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@slender iron 🍚

inland tusk Dec 17, 2018, 7:23 PM

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@slender iron Congrats

marble hornet Dec 17, 2018, 7:23 PM

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text only for now

raven canopy Dec 17, 2018, 7:24 PM

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@jerryn & @ladyada again for continuing ESP AT command work.
"Pre-emptive" hug for @kattni for giving Python workshops in Chicago this week.
A bowl-full-of-jelly sized Group Hug!

tulip sleet Dec 17, 2018, 7:24 PM

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@marble hornet do you have hug report and/or status?

inland tusk Dec 17, 2018, 7:24 PM

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Happy Holidays to all

marble hornet Dec 17, 2018, 7:25 PM

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report: (and hug) @tawny creek was able to get the gui code running on an ili9341 and feather m4! and still muddling through learning some c and the cp standards for creating new modules for the scratch ram module "svm"

meager fog Dec 17, 2018, 7:26 PM

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@marble hornet which gui code's this?

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im doing some ili9341 hacking lately

marble hornet Dec 17, 2018, 7:26 PM

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i'll post a link to my repo! (100% cp)

meager fog Dec 17, 2018, 7:26 PM

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niiice

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plz do 😃 ill chek it out, maybe we can share code!

marble hornet Dec 17, 2018, 7:28 PM

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https://github.com/TG-Techie/TG-US getting it running on different hardware is not documented but 100% possible! I wrote a name space buffer of libraries so disp libs and button types can be switched out without touching the main code.

GitHub

TG-Techie/TG-US

the TG_UserSystem, this is the first variant where the tg_io, the HW-folder, is where to define your hardware. please use 1.x not master(master is often not stable) And I'm always willing to ch...

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i'll post some vids when the meeting is over

meager fog Dec 17, 2018, 7:30 PM

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ok thanks!

errant grail Dec 17, 2018, 7:31 PM

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Great suggestion @inland tusk !

marble hornet Dec 17, 2018, 7:32 PM

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oops typo, sorry

raven canopy Dec 17, 2018, 7:32 PM

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Dan, we could have web scraped that! :D

marble hornet Dec 17, 2018, 7:33 PM

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@meager fog gladly

stuck elbow Dec 17, 2018, 7:34 PM

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nothing from me

slender iron Dec 17, 2018, 7:38 PM

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@meager fog status update?

meager fog Dec 17, 2018, 7:38 PM

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wrote guide & commited WiFi w/ESP module coprocessor. it...worksish. needs more but is functional for basic URL queries

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about to do a bunch of graphics work for M4 and TFT display, blitting, surfaces, graphics, maybe even f0ntz

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nrf52840 feather being fabbed today

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hopefully in the shop sometime this week

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zats it'

slender iron Dec 17, 2018, 7:39 PM

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thanks!

marble hornet Dec 17, 2018, 7:40 PM

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WOO WHOO! nrf52840!!

errant grail Dec 17, 2018, 7:40 PM

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@meager fog 's new guide is excellent!

raven canopy Dec 17, 2018, 7:40 PM

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Last Week:

Adabot:
- Fixed >100 Issues pagination issue.
- Added 'dry run' and 'local' patching capability, for testing patches before submittal.
FRAM CP Learn Guides: SPI published. I2C in review.
Travis badge update (.org -> .com):
- updated cookiecutter README badge link
- Tried creating a git patch to update the library READMEs; won't work because of line diff including the lib name. So, wrote a python script that will update each lib. Still discussing implementation strategy with Kattni. Currently it will push changes to a branch on my forks, and submit a PR from there.
- Fighting feature creep to "safely" include the above scripting capability in adabot patching. 😄

This Week:

Mostly travel prep, airports, and cars.

marble hornet Dec 17, 2018, 7:48 PM

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oh, i have a in the weedsy maybe question.

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is there any chance of reactivating the running multi script in random from up? or as an option

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tandom**?

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sure,

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for my project or in general?

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I was thinking of the basic threading,

raven canopy Dec 17, 2018, 7:52 PM

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You got to where I was going with threads. 😄

tidal kiln Dec 17, 2018, 7:52 PM

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dan has an issue with discussion

tulip sleet Dec 17, 2018, 7:52 PM

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https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/issues/1380

GitHub

Using message queues for asynchronous processing (thoughts) · Iss...

These are some strawman thoughts about how to provide handling of asynchronous events in a simple way in CircuitPython. This was also discussed at some length in our weekly audio chat on Nov 12, 20...

meager fog Dec 17, 2018, 7:53 PM

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yah use cases are most helpful

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there's a lot of 'i want threads for this thing' where DMA may be more helpful

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threads are so incredibly deadly

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that and pointers its like the worst parts of C 😃

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and i ❤ C

tulip sleet Dec 17, 2018, 7:54 PM

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people also say "I need interrupts", but sometimes they need what interrupts can do, and not necessarily the mechanism

raven canopy Dec 17, 2018, 7:54 PM

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Pointers aren't a positive? 😆

meager fog Dec 17, 2018, 7:54 PM

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for example, wifi coprocessor can do wifi stuff and get back to you later, with DMA and buffering

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if you really want to shoot yourself in the foot, we have regexp support in M4 now 😃

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j/k j/k

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for example audio support, rotaryio,m pulsein...these are normally IRQ issues, but we do with DMA/timers

neat folio Dec 17, 2018, 7:55 PM

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multi processor is an interesting approach to multi threading 😉

meager fog Dec 17, 2018, 7:55 PM

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you can signup for the propeller 2 😉

fathom lava Dec 17, 2018, 7:56 PM

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Sorry I couldn't make the call today. Hugs to @slender iron and @idle owl for their huge help in getting my test suite structured correctly. Last week I finished my SAMD21 porting guide and checked in the BoardTest suite.

marble hornet Dec 17, 2018, 7:56 PM

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okay, I know what you mean! There are many solutions to one problem! i'll give it some more thought

idle owl Dec 17, 2018, 7:56 PM

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@fathom lava No worries! I've added your reports to the notes 😃

marble hornet Dec 17, 2018, 7:57 PM

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threading might not be the solution 👍

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🤷

tulip sleet Dec 17, 2018, 7:58 PM

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2pm eastern

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aagh

errant grail Dec 17, 2018, 7:59 PM

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Thanks everyone! Best wishes, @slender iron !

raven canopy Dec 17, 2018, 7:59 PM

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Thanks everyone! Have a great holiday, and enjoy a break. Rocking it all the time, like this community does, is tiring.

meager fog Dec 17, 2018, 7:59 PM

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happy holidays!

neat folio Dec 17, 2018, 8:00 PM

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Happy Holidays all and thanx all 😃 what a great community

meager fog Dec 17, 2018, 8:00 PM

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bye scott!!

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happy holidays!

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woooo

stuck elbow Dec 17, 2018, 8:00 PM

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happy winter solstice

meager fog Dec 17, 2018, 8:00 PM

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oh thank goodness

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dark at like 3pm

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@slender iron wanna chat fast about memory

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or you wanna bolt to something else?

raven canopy Dec 17, 2018, 8:02 PM

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Later taters!

marble hornet Dec 17, 2018, 8:02 PM

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See you later

solar whale Dec 17, 2018, 8:03 PM

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👋

fierce girder Dec 17, 2018, 8:04 PM

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@tannewt I want to go outside the airport! I've been through Iceland airport twice this month on Berlin flights. The WOW Air in-flight magazine has fully indoctrinated me into needing to spend a week in Iceland sometime 😍

Hope you have an amazing trip!

cunning crypt Dec 17, 2018, 8:16 PM

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I am mildly disappointed that the new job prevents me from being part of the CP weeklies. But on the other hand it seems great so far.

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Anyway, break is over, back to work. Or, more accurately, observing.

neat folio Dec 17, 2018, 8:17 PM

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perhaps over time you can convince the employers of the value of the CP community/activities as they pertain to your organization 😃

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now get back to work!

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😉

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ok... how soon will CircuitPython be running on https://www.parallax.com/product/propeller-2 ? 😉 lol

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(I want one now... thanx 😦 )

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before people get too excited... (this is humor, it isn't out yet) 😉

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but I still want one... (now) 😦

raven canopy Dec 17, 2018, 8:43 PM

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Been watching Prop2 for a while now. Prop1 was a pure "over-my-head" moment, but I love the cogged design concept.

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That was the closet I've been to ASM.

neat folio Dec 17, 2018, 8:47 PM

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looks like a great way to get into parallel processing at the real-world board/wire level as opposed to the more "theoretical" GPU approach... (which is also typically "fogged" by being several orders of magnitude more complex numerically... i.e. hundreds or thousands of processors)

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32 is "enough to be useful", but not "so many that you can't see the herd"

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I think it was 32 "cogs"... (read it more than a few minutes ago... lol)

raven canopy Dec 17, 2018, 8:57 PM

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I think 32 is correct. Prop1 was 8 cogs.

marble hornet Dec 17, 2018, 9:22 PM

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😅quite blurry. It's running on an m4 a ST7735R and I have not yet added the dma spi. I'm tapping mpr121 buttons to the left but adding tactile switches is easy.

📎 video.mov

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@meager fog posted video^^.
And do you have any tips for hand soldering the mpr121 specifically?

buoyant wigeon Dec 17, 2018, 9:24 PM

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@meager fog So, I have tried to connect Trinket_m0 and ESP-01 with 1MB memory.
I have found some problems:
a/ after flashing FW "AT_firmware_1.6.2.0.bin" from you, the module was not functional at all. Only blue LED flashed on the module; by chance I have found out that if I had flashed FW to a module with previously flashed MicroPython, the behavior of the module was OK; when I first erased the module, then this "blue craziness" appeared. It means it must be related to the initialization of data structures. I made my own FW "AT_firmware_ESP-01_1MB_1.6.2_target.bin" and with this it has been functional OK even after erase (attachment).
b/ I have been trying testing program "espatcontrol_simpletest.py" only, it is not willing to connect with my AP, I have been looking for the cause...
In the attachment you can find example of output log... I have been thinking about CWMODE_DEF, CWMODE_CUR, CWJAP_DEF a CWJAP_CUR now... because I am able to get connection when I do AT commands manually...do you have any idea?

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📎 AT_firmware_ESP-01_1MB_1.6.2_target.bin

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📎 espAT_sample.log

obtuse ibex Dec 17, 2018, 9:36 PM

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I cant seem to see the CIRCUITPY directory on my Adafruit HalloWing M0 Express. Cant tell if I am doing something wrong, missing drivers, etc. (On windows)

I do, however, see HALLOWBOOT when I plug it in.

marble hornet Dec 17, 2018, 9:44 PM

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@obtuse ibex I think you need to drag cp onto it. You are in bootloader mode

exotic pumice Dec 17, 2018, 9:44 PM

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@obtuse ibex you can download a uf2 of cpy here https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/releases

GitHub

adafruit/circuitpython

CircuitPython - a Python implementation for teaching coding with microcontrollers - adafruit/circuitpython

marble hornet Dec 17, 2018, 9:44 PM

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Or press reset

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If you haven't already

exotic pumice Dec 17, 2018, 9:45 PM

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and drag it onto the mass storage

slender iron Dec 17, 2018, 9:47 PM

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<@&356864093652516868> Here is the recording of today's meeting: https://youtu.be/pbCp57K3Rs8

YouTube

Adafruit Industries

CircuitPython Weekly - December 17th, 2018 @adafruit #adafruit #ci...

Notes with time codes are available here: https://github.com/adafruit/adafruit-circuitpython-weekly-meeting/blob/master/2018/2018-12-17.md Thanks to @kattni ...

▶ Play video

obtuse ibex Dec 17, 2018, 9:54 PM

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Thanks @exotic pumice. That did it. 😃

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@marble hornet I needed the uf2.

exotic pumice Dec 17, 2018, 9:54 PM

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@obtuse ibex excellent, happy to help

marble hornet Dec 17, 2018, 9:56 PM

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@obtuse ibex awesome! What cha making?

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@meager fog found one in my desktop bwos. Time to start porting😋😉

📎 image0.jpg

solar whale Dec 17, 2018, 10:10 PM

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@buoyant wigeon FYI - I just tried using the ESP8266 AT firmware with a feather_m0 express and I also run into lots of issues properly handling the AT responses. Up til now I have on;y been using the M4 and NRF52840 boards. It look like the M0's may need some changes made to some of the command timing.

buoyant wigeon Dec 17, 2018, 10:17 PM

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@solar whale Thanks for reply... I'm just playing with it but no results yet... command timing... good inspiration... here is the time on the bed... the brain fails 😔

upbeat plover Dec 17, 2018, 10:18 PM

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nvm i can write with slicing but fram i can't... i can't copy paste my lib ={

solar whale Dec 17, 2018, 10:19 PM

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@buoyant wigeon FYI -- I just got it to make a good connection after updating tp the latest CP 4.0.0-alpha5 release

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no idea why

buoyant wigeon Dec 17, 2018, 10:21 PM

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..with feather_m0?

solar whale Dec 17, 2018, 10:21 PM

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yes

buoyant wigeon Dec 17, 2018, 10:22 PM

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OK.... the theme for tomorrow...

solar whale Dec 17, 2018, 10:23 PM

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Good luck!

buoyant wigeon Dec 17, 2018, 10:23 PM

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Good night 😀

upbeat plover Dec 17, 2018, 10:25 PM

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i think i can copy paste okay and just use "for in range" instead of slicing

manic glacierBOT Dec 17, 2018, 10:32 PM

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ladyada

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on issue #1048: nrf: implement touchio\.TouchIn

looks good, can you toss me a UF2 and ill test it on the nRF52840 feather?

exotic pumice Dec 17, 2018, 10:39 PM

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Catching up on the meeting, had family over today at that time.

In my opinion, I don't think anyone has come up with a way to do multithreading well, in any language period
--@slender iron
Try Go or Rust. 😛

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I understand where you're coming from about focusing on beginners though

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I also agree that C does it poorly

obtuse ibex Dec 17, 2018, 10:44 PM

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@marble hornet Conbadge

slender iron Dec 17, 2018, 10:46 PM

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🎃

exotic pumice Dec 17, 2018, 10:52 PM

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I was working on advent of code and someone taught me a cool trick in Rust. If you have an iterator, and you want to do multithreading, you just import a library and run myiterator.into_par_iter() (parallell iterator) and now you have an iterator that takes advantage of multithreading.

raven canopy Dec 17, 2018, 11:33 PM

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@upbeat plover for FRAM, construct your buffer however, then just supply the starting address.

data = [1, 2, 3]
fram[10] = data

I initially had slicing for write, but was taken out for good reason that escapes me. 😁

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also, set property fram.write_wraparound=True if you'll be writing past the last address.

upbeat plover Dec 17, 2018, 11:35 PM

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how do you do bytearray(b'\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff') for data in that code?

raven canopy Dec 17, 2018, 11:36 PM

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You can pass in a bytearray, list, or tuple.

upbeat plover Dec 17, 2018, 11:46 PM

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seems to be working well, using bytearray i can store strings

raven canopy Dec 17, 2018, 11:49 PM

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To a point yes. ord() comes in handy with certain characters from what I tested.

tough flax Dec 18, 2018, 1:15 AM

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@tulip sleet thanks for the confirmation and details. Have there been any ideas or any progress on a workaround? Telling my users to install a particular text editor is tough

upbeat plover Dec 18, 2018, 2:09 AM

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This seems to be about right for Lux from analog 3.3v, its nearly the same as my light meter. Anyone have a GA1A12S202 and want to test this?

import time
import math

GA1A12S202 = analogio.AnalogIn(board.A1)
logRange = 5.0

while True:
    rawval = GA1A12S202.value
    logLux = (rawval * logRange) / 65520
    print(rawval)
    if (math.pow(10, logLux)) > 55000 or (math.pow(10, logLux)) < 3:
        logLux = 'Out of Range'
    else:
        logLux = round(math.pow(10, logLux))
    print(logLux)
    time.sleep(0.5)

solar whale Dec 18, 2018, 2:20 AM

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@tulip sleet were there any updates to the SAMD21 UART between 4.0 alpha3 and alpha5? Just curious. Had some start working when I installed alpha5 not sure if it was alpha5 that fixed it or something else.

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ah I see PR1372 made some changes

karmic notch Dec 18, 2018, 2:25 AM

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Goof evening all. @river quest , thanks for the awesome neotresllis M4 for adabox 10. Though, I am having a problem with one of the examples from the site.

https://learn.adafruit.com/xmas-sound-board/overview

Christmas Soundboard with NeoTrellis M4

Create your own festive soundboard with 32 audio clips

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On bootup, it says merry christmas, lights up and then lights out LED on the back is flashing green yellow then blue

tidal kiln Dec 18, 2018, 2:33 AM

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@karmic notch it sounds like the code is erroring out for some reason. the blinking lights are coded message:
https://learn.adafruit.com/welcome-to-circuitpython/troubleshooting#circuitpython-rgb-status-light-18-18
it would be easier to tell what is happening if you can access the REPL - do you know how to do that?

karmic notch Dec 18, 2018, 2:35 AM

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I am using Mu editor, I click the repl button and get a could not find an attached device error.

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would there be version of circuit python I should "update" to ?

tidal kiln Dec 18, 2018, 2:36 AM

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i don't think mu currently supports that board

karmic notch Dec 18, 2018, 2:36 AM

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that would make sence.

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er sense

tidal kiln Dec 18, 2018, 2:36 AM

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and i'm guessing it's a circuitpython version issue

karmic notch Dec 18, 2018, 2:36 AM

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is there another editor that I could use?

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that was my guess, I have been looking through the tresslism4 pages to find a link to the right python version

tidal kiln Dec 18, 2018, 2:37 AM

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we could just try a firmware update - but would you be up for trying to get to REPL?

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knowing how to do that will help you in the long run

karmic notch Dec 18, 2018, 2:38 AM

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I am up for trying both.

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I agree 😃

tidal kiln Dec 18, 2018, 2:38 AM

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what operating system are you on?

karmic notch Dec 18, 2018, 2:39 AM

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Win 10

tidal kiln Dec 18, 2018, 2:40 AM

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here's the general how to for windows:
https://learn.adafruit.com/welcome-to-circuitpython/advanced-serial-console-on-windows

karmic notch Dec 18, 2018, 2:40 AM

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cool

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thank youi

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you*

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I updated the uf2 and it solved the crashing issue

tidal kiln Dec 18, 2018, 2:41 AM

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ha!

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where'd you get the firmware?

karmic notch Dec 18, 2018, 2:41 AM

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https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-neotrellis-m4/circuitpython

Adafruit NeoTrellis M4 Express

The NeoTrellis M4 is an all-in-one USB + NeoPixel + Elastomer + Audio board.

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I ended up jumping ahead and found it.

tidal kiln Dec 18, 2018, 2:42 AM

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cool. no worries. that should work.

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i saw someone else run into a similar issue

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same code example / same fix

karmic notch Dec 18, 2018, 2:42 AM

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ahh

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easy fix too

tidal kiln Dec 18, 2018, 2:43 AM

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that code uses some newer features of the audioio module

karmic notch Dec 18, 2018, 2:43 AM

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oh ho, it seems to have once again crashed

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I was playing around some buttons !

tidal kiln Dec 18, 2018, 2:43 AM

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did it make glitchy noises?

karmic notch Dec 18, 2018, 2:44 AM

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I hear a swoosh/shooting star sound

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I recall something about that linked her within the last week

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when sound finishes its a high pitch phew sound.

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I think this is what I am hearing

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A few seconds/minutes after playing a sound on the NeoTrellis there's a 'peeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww' sound - what's that?
You're hearing the output capacitors discharge after not playing audio for a while. This normal, not harmful, and occurs with some headphones/speakers

tidal kiln Dec 18, 2018, 2:47 AM

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could be. what was the crash? just the sound, or did it do something else?

karmic notch Dec 18, 2018, 2:47 AM

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it shut down the same as before uf2 update.

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I am not sure what happened

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I was testing by repeating my button presses

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still hasn't crashed since.

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but I think this a job for the repl to discover maybe

tidal kiln Dec 18, 2018, 2:48 AM

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were you pressing the buttons at an angle?

karmic notch Dec 18, 2018, 2:49 AM

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I can't say, as I was passively pressing buttons while reading. 😃 , since i read about that jus tnow I was trying that intentionally.

tidal kiln Dec 18, 2018, 2:53 AM

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it may have been that. next time it happens see if that's what it was.

karmic notch Dec 18, 2018, 2:55 AM

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Yeah, I have also gotten into the repl

tidal kiln Dec 18, 2018, 2:55 AM

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excellent!

karmic notch Dec 18, 2018, 2:56 AM

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New Crash

📎 unknown.png

tidal kiln Dec 18, 2018, 2:58 AM

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way more info than blinking color lights.

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can you recreate that repeatably? or is random?

karmic notch Dec 18, 2018, 2:58 AM

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seems random

main meteor Dec 18, 2018, 3:00 AM

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int object? I'm guessing you have more than one different usage of a variable (or list entry, or somesuch).

karmic notch Dec 18, 2018, 3:00 AM

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it looks like it is referring to something in some of the libraries.

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any way I am going to have dinner and look at this afterward

main meteor Dec 18, 2018, 3:01 AM

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Good plan. I had a bug I stared at for 3 days and couldn't find. I went up to NYC for a few days and when I got back, I saw what I'd done wrong (of course, a single character typo).

tidal kiln Dec 18, 2018, 3:02 AM

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not sure what would be causing that. but can wait until after dinner 😃

meager fog Dec 18, 2018, 3:32 AM

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@solar whale @buoyant wigeon we've made many updates to uart in latest 4.0.0 alpha's - that can make a difference

solar whale Dec 18, 2018, 3:33 AM

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@meager fog yeah! -- seems to be OK with alpha5 -- just at simpletest -- no json in m0 so cant run bitcoin

meager fog Dec 18, 2018, 3:33 AM

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yah for m0 you'll have to hand parse. icky but at least its no strtok

solar whale Dec 18, 2018, 3:34 AM

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yup -- more to add to the todo list!

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I tried minesptool on m0 -- ran out of memory

meager fog Dec 18, 2018, 3:35 AM

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yah thats very not surprising

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lower the packet count from 1K to maybe 256 bytes

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also i didnt write miniesptool in a 'good' way'

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it could be greatly improved 😃

solar whale Dec 18, 2018, 3:36 AM

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not a problem ... it works very well as intended

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I even loade the AT firmware on to an old ESP8266 that has a fried CP2104 -- works great via UART -- back in service

tulip sleet Dec 18, 2018, 4:21 AM

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@tulip sleet the delayed-write problem is a biggie. The "workaround" is to use editors that flush to disk when writing, or, use "Eject" (in Windows). It doesn't really make the drive go away but it does force out all the data. https://superuser.com/questions/1197897/windows-delays-writing-fat-table-on-small-usb-drive-despite-quick-removal

Super User

Windows delays writing FAT table on small USB drive despite “Qui...

I am seeing delayed writes to the FAT on a small-capacity FAT(FAT12)-formatted USB flash drive even though the policy for the drive is set to "Quick Removal". (I believe this means the SurpriseRemo...

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Also true, but with a shorter interval, in Linux, and in Linux you can just type "sync". Not a problem with MacOS.

manic glacierBOT Dec 18, 2018, 5:42 AM

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TroyGar

[adafruit/circuitpython] New star added

stoic stag Dec 18, 2018, 6:23 AM

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I just learned about circuitpython today and it definitely looks interesting. I have a few esp32's and a project in mind but if I decide to switch back to Arduino is it as simple as uploading a sketch in the Arduino IDE to get it back to normal?

exotic pumice Dec 18, 2018, 6:28 AM

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I believe so @stoic stag

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keep in mind that esp is mainly going to be supported as a coprocessor going forward

meager fog Dec 18, 2018, 6:37 AM

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@solar whale did some tweaks, seems to be improved now with a little more rigorous feedback

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also i tried a newer ESP8285 compared to my ESP8266 and it works a lot better. which is odd, but it does

meager fog Dec 18, 2018, 7:33 AM

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huh https://github.com/FerriteGiant/circuitpython-mqtt-uart/blob/master/main.py

GitHub

FerriteGiant/circuitpython-mqtt-uart

This code is meant to run on an Adafruit Trinket M0 and implement the MQTT protocol using a esp8266 running stock (AT-command) firmware and communicating over UART. This is NOT meant to run ON an e...

buoyant wigeon Dec 18, 2018, 7:36 AM

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@meager fog @solar whale 👏 I have installed CP 4.0.0 Alpha 5! before I had go to work... 10 attempts = 10 times OK ... with espatcontrol_simpletest.py...nice 👍

pseudo ginkgo Dec 18, 2018, 9:37 AM

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I'm having trouble accessing the REPL. I'm using Mu on Windows, and the serial console works fine, but when I press ctrl+c, nothing happens, serial continues to operate as normal.

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I've now tested it with Putty and on my Mac via terminal with no success, so it doesn't appear to be a Mu issue

stuck elbow Dec 18, 2018, 9:56 AM

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@stoic stag for esp32 you probably want to use MicroPython

stuck elbow Dec 18, 2018, 11:09 AM

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I wrote a small tutorial about controlling those little OLED displays directly, without a library: https://hackaday.io/page/5722-driving-oled-displays-directly

Driving OLED Displays Directly | Hackaday.io

There are many monochrome OLED display modules available for really reasonable prices out there. They can be really useful for a small and simple display in a project. However, many libraries available for driving them are rather big and slow. In this article I want to show h...

solar whale Dec 18, 2018, 11:16 AM

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@stuck elbow Thank you -- that looks great -- Looking forward to trying it out.

stuck elbow Dec 18, 2018, 11:17 AM

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it uses micropython, but I think it should be easy enough to translate

solar whale Dec 18, 2018, 11:18 AM

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Thats OK -- I'm moving back to Micropython on the ESP8266 anyway -- I can practice there then port iit to CP..

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@meager fog I'm curious about your "tweaks" to ESP_ATcontrol. Let me know if there is somethign I shoud try or I'll just watch for updates to the repo. That MQTT link looks interesting. The next thing I wanted to do was see if I could post to adafruit.io -- I'll try it tonight!

marble hornet Dec 18, 2018, 1:54 PM

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C is so cool! and I've only written like 5 lines!

stuck elbow Dec 18, 2018, 2:13 PM

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it gets less cool when you write more ;-)

solar whale Dec 18, 2018, 2:26 PM

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programming is cool in any language 😉 It's nice to have a selection of tools available.

marble hornet Dec 18, 2018, 2:32 PM

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ever use Karel?

solar whale Dec 18, 2018, 2:33 PM

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not me.

marble hornet Dec 18, 2018, 2:35 PM

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i have a cp and c question

stuck elbow Dec 18, 2018, 2:36 PM

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shoot

solar whale Dec 18, 2018, 2:36 PM

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ask away

stuck elbow Dec 18, 2018, 2:37 PM

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the suspense...

solar whale Dec 18, 2018, 2:37 PM

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drum roll...

marble hornet Dec 18, 2018, 2:38 PM

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haha

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at the end of a module .h file i see this line ```#endif // MICROPY_INCLUDED_MYMODULE_MYCLASS_H

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can i leave off the comment or does cp need it. I ask because...

stuck elbow Dec 18, 2018, 2:39 PM

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it's a comment to make it clear to which "#if" it matches

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the comment is not needed for the computer, but it helps humans

marble hornet Dec 18, 2018, 2:39 PM

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okay... 😕

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ha

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got it! i haz another one may i?

stuck elbow Dec 18, 2018, 2:40 PM

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don't ask to ask, just ask

marble hornet Dec 18, 2018, 2:41 PM

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#define MICROPY_INCLUDED_MYMODULE_MYCLASS_H

#include "py/obj.h"

typedef struct{
  mp_obj_base_t base;
  bool deinited;
} mymodule_myclass_obj_t;


#endif // MICROPY_INCLUDED_MYMODULE_MYCLASS_H```

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okay, so MICROPY_INCLUDED_MYMODULE_MYCLASS_H is defined if it isn't already

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but then it isn't used or touched right?

stuck elbow Dec 18, 2018, 2:41 PM

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the trick here is to make sure the code appears only once even when it's included multiple times

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C preprocessor is pretty dumb in that way

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so if you have a header file a.h and a header file b.h that also includes a.h, and then you include both a.h and b.h in your b.c, then a.h would appear twice and cause errors/warnings about redefining the same objects

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this trick prevents that

marble hornet Dec 18, 2018, 2:44 PM

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okay! just gonna double check I understand: you're saying if .h is #includeed in multiple files the #ifndef makes sure it isn't defined after it's first definition ?

stuck elbow Dec 18, 2018, 2:45 PM

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yes

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only the first #include will actually include the code, the later ones will be empty

marble hornet Dec 18, 2018, 2:47 PM

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like: if not ('x' in dir()): x = 5

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so it all becomes one giant c file?

stuck elbow Dec 18, 2018, 2:47 PM

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the #something directives work at the level of the preprocessor -- they run before compilation, to produce one big text file to compile

marble hornet Dec 18, 2018, 2:48 PM

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👍

stuck elbow Dec 18, 2018, 2:48 PM

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things between #if* and #endif only get included in that when the condition is met

solar whale Dec 18, 2018, 2:48 PM

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#include is just like a "copy/paste"

stuck elbow Dec 18, 2018, 2:48 PM

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so you can have different code depending on some settings or platform

marble hornet Dec 18, 2018, 2:49 PM

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neat!

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different question:

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do modules in shared-bindings need activation?

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or are they normally included and need a non included, like nvm in earlier builds

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or is it in documentation?

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and thank you @stuck elbow

manic glacierBOT Dec 18, 2018, 3:12 PM

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hathach

[adafruit/circuitpython] Pull request opened: #1408 added pulsein using nrfx gpiote $gpio interrupt$

implement #1043 . I only tested this with a simple Arduino sketch toggling gpio. It may contain bugs and/or incorrect reading, a proper testing e.g reading from IR sensor should be run to make sure this function probably.

stuck elbow Dec 18, 2018, 3:21 PM

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@marble hornet they need to be included in mpconfigport.h

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and added to the makefile

marble hornet Dec 18, 2018, 3:22 PM

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thnx

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so for testing should i just put it in shared modules?

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then move it back when it comes time to pr?

raven canopy Dec 18, 2018, 3:27 PM

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@marble hornet shared-modules are for port agnostic functions, iirc.

stuck elbow Dec 18, 2018, 3:27 PM

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@marble hornet no matter where you put it, you still have to include it in the makefile and the header files for the compiler to pick it up

marble hornet Dec 18, 2018, 3:28 PM

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kk

upbeat plover Dec 18, 2018, 4:26 PM

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With further testing i had to add 50% of logLux to LogLux for it to be the exact same as my multimeter's Lux meter. Tested ranges 30-25,000 with white LEDs and warm light fluorescents

I need to test sunlight now but its been super cloudy.

Anyone have one of these and a Lux meter to test this?

📎 adafruit_ga1a12s202_test.py

manic glacierBOT Dec 18, 2018, 4:29 PM

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darby3

[adafruit/circuitpython] New star added

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engineerJishnu

[adafruit/circuitpython] Fork created: engineerJishnu/circuitpython

meager fog Dec 18, 2018, 6:06 PM

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@solar whale hey so I Have Learned Things

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ESP8266 has crummy SSL, so modern sites dont like it. i think the ESP32 solves it with the bigger RAM and processeor - it can do TLS1.2

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so ill be moving to supporting ESP32 majority

meager fog Dec 18, 2018, 6:23 PM

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can you do me a favor and try to url query...

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"https://api.github.com/repos/adafruit/circuitpython"

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on the argon? does it connect?

solar whale Dec 18, 2018, 6:24 PM

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@meager fog Thats too bad - but not surprising ... glad they put the esp32 in the particle.argon (apprently that was a late switch from an esp8285).

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I can try it this evening -- not at home now

meager fog Dec 18, 2018, 6:24 PM

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npnp

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ill grab an argon too

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and maybe just hand-wire an ESP32

solar whale Dec 18, 2018, 6:25 PM

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I can try it with both the argon and a huzzah esp32 on the M4

meager fog Dec 18, 2018, 6:28 PM

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yep thanx

buoyant wigeon Dec 18, 2018, 6:37 PM

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@solar whale @meager fog My HW is Trinket_m0 + ESP-01... tests with "espatcontrol_simpletest.py" definitely OK... but with "espatcontrol_webclient.py" no success... ends always with error "No OK response to AT+CIPSEND=66"... sending also log-file... any idea? some advice would be welcome

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📎 espAT_sample_2.log

meager fog Dec 18, 2018, 6:39 PM

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not sure, the code is still finicky

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we'll get there 😃

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probably some parsing stuff

solar whale Dec 18, 2018, 6:40 PM

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that space after the ">" at the end has been a problem for parsing

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sometimes it is there -- sometimes not

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I thought ti was being handled either way, but maybe not ....

buoyant wigeon Dec 18, 2018, 6:42 PM

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Thanks.. will look at it... btw what particle Xenon and Argon... CP is implemented??? I have received last week some of them ... what is the status?

solar whale Dec 18, 2018, 6:46 PM

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CP 4.0.0-alpha5 has builds for them (it is alpha 😉 -- to use the ESP32 on the Argon you have to reflash with a new version of the AT firmware the uses the correct pins.

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https://learn.adafruit.com/adding-a-wifi-co-processor-to-circuitpython-esp8266-esp32/firmware-upload#program-directly-built-in-esp32-module-3-30

Adding a WiFi Co-Processor to CircuitPython

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buoyant wigeon Dec 18, 2018, 6:49 PM

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Thanks for info... I didn't know...

solar whale Dec 18, 2018, 6:49 PM

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Warning - I have not tried reverting back to the particle.io mesh firmware after flashing for CP - it can probably be done, but I have not tried

buoyant wigeon Dec 18, 2018, 6:51 PM

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That's good ... I'm not going to such an adventure 😀

solar whale Dec 18, 2018, 6:51 PM

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you also have to flash the uf2 bootloader to the particle board -- need a J-link

buoyant wigeon Dec 18, 2018, 6:56 PM

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I have J-link but also a lot of other problems in the solution... I will leave the new problems for the new year 😀

solar whale Dec 18, 2018, 6:56 PM

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😉

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there is a lot of rapid development going on now -- stay tuned...

manic glacierBOT Dec 18, 2018, 7:43 PM

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nickzoic

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on issue #1048: nrf: implement touchio\.TouchIn

OK, sent by email ... and the branch is at https://github.com/nickzoic/micropython/tree/nickzoic/circuitpython-nrf-touchin-1048 if you want to build it yourself. I tested it on the dev kit board with the pad PCB pictured above hooked up by short hookup wires.

solar whale Dec 18, 2018, 9:56 PM

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@meager fog I get a "CONNECT OK" response but I don't get the response message -- or its not getting parsed. also I had trouble even parsing the CONNECT response so I made a change only to compare reply[0:7] == b'CONNECT' and that seems better. Still -- the parsing for CIPSEND is not working wery reliably. I had the same resuilts from the ESP8266 and the huzzah feather on the M4

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I'll try to do more with this a little later.

manic glacierBOT Dec 18, 2018, 10:20 PM

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ladyada

[adafruit/circuitpython] Issue opened: #1409 Driver for SHARP memory displays

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3502

tawny creek Dec 18, 2018, 11:15 PM

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@solar whale trying out some wifi coprocessor stuff with esp32 and willing to test out stuff! Tried this out with an esp32 feather:

---> AT+RST
<--- b''
---> AT+RST
<--- b''
---> AT+RST
<--- b'\x00'
---> AT+RST
<--- b''
---> ATE0
<--- b''
---> ATE0
<--- b''
---> ATE0
<--- b''
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "code.py", line 39, in <module>
  File "adafruit_espatcontrol.py", line 86, in __init__
  File "adafruit_espatcontrol.py", line 368, in echo
  File "adafruit_espatcontrol.py", line 339, in at_response
RuntimeError: No OK response to ATE0

marble hornet Dec 18, 2018, 11:35 PM

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@meager fog what have you been hacking into/with the ili? (if you can say)

ruby lake Dec 18, 2018, 11:49 PM

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alas after 60,000 hours of uptime, this machine is dying

meager fog Dec 18, 2018, 11:55 PM

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@tawny creek something isnt connected right, you should be getting echo chars, check your wiring

buoyant wigeon Dec 19, 2018, 12:22 AM

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@meager fog @solar whale stupid question ... can you confirm that the strip function works correctly in CP?

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 12:23 AM

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@buoyant wigeon I have not tested it explicitly but I suspect the problems are in the parsing not in strip.

buoyant wigeon Dec 19, 2018, 12:27 AM

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Surelly yes... but I am trying something and ... probably is time to go to bed ...😔

river quest Dec 19, 2018, 12:33 AM

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just posted up 2 new circuitpython runnin' boards on the adafruit blog, the grand central and the nrf52840, sign up they'll go fast once in stock https://www.adafruit.com/product/4062 & https://www.adafruit.com/product/4064

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tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 12:50 AM

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@solar whale @meager fog the connection looks okay, USB<->USB (Power between feathers), GND<->GND, TX<->RX, RX<->TX, D5 to RST (ESP32) same for the 8266 board.

Free memory: 73.625
---> AT
<--- b'AT\r\n'
---> AT
<--- b'AT\r\n'
---> AT
<--- b'AT\r\n'
---> AT+RST
<--- b'AT+RST\r\n'
---> AT+RST
<--- b'\x00@5E\xd5\n'
---> AT+RST
<--- b'AT+RST\r\n'
---> AT+RST
<--- b'AT+RST\r\n'
---> AT+RST
<--- b'AT+RST\r\n'
---> AT+RST
<--- b'AT+RST\r\n'
---> ATE0
<--- b'\x00'
---> ATE0
<--- b'\x00'
---> ATE0
<--- b'ATE0\r\n'

I do have a particle board, maybe the firmware is specific to the ESP32 on that board? Using a WROOM not a WROVER maybe..?

raven canopy Dec 19, 2018, 12:55 AM

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@tawny creek which particle board are you using? if you're using one for that output, at least.

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 12:56 AM

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@raven canopy am not using one, using an M4 with an ESP32 Wrover

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I could use one to test though if that's the only combo that works right now

raven canopy Dec 19, 2018, 12:56 AM

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k. (but yes, the new particle argon has particle's esp at firmware)

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 12:57 AM

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sorry, to clarify — the firmware here:
https://learn.adafruit.com/adding-a-wifi-co-processor-to-circuitpython-esp8266-esp32/firmware-upload

for the ESP32, is that only tested on the particle boards?

Adding a WiFi Co-Processor to CircuitPython

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raven canopy Dec 19, 2018, 1:00 AM

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jerry would better answer that question, but the filename does hint at the argon. i imagine it is a "standard" ESP32 AT firmware though, because the particle version wasn't working which is why he build that .bin.

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 1:01 AM

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That ESP32 is only for the particle argon.

raven canopy Dec 19, 2018, 1:01 AM

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ahh. guide should be updated? (non-judgey question)

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 1:02 AM

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the file name makes sense! DOH!!!

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 1:04 AM

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“Our ESP32 setup assumes you'll be using the same UART RX/TX pins for uploading firmware as communicating. This is always true on the ESP8266 but not on the ESP32
We only really recommend using ESP32 if its integrated into your board - like the Particle Argon. If not, the ESP8266 above will work just fine.”

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That is on the previous page. Agreed. The upload page could be clearer.

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For an external ESP32 you can use Espressif version.

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Sorry it is so confusing. Still much to be done.

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 1:14 AM

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not a problem @solar whale ! happy to poke around anyway ☺

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 1:15 AM

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https://github.com/espressif/esp32-at. This is what I used. The default build will work for the Huzzah feather ESP32

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I made a custom build for the argon.

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 1:17 AM

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I downloaded V1.1.1 off the official site, should that be ok?

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 1:17 AM

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I have not tried it.

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Do you have a link to what you used?

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 1:19 AM

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@solar whale https://www.espressif.com/en/support/download/at

AT | Espressif Systems

Downloads: SDK & Demos, APKs, Tools and Documents for Espressif Systems products and solutions

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Free memory: 73.4688
---> AT
<--- b'_\n\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'
---> AT
<--- b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'
---> AT
<--- b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'
---> AT+RST
<--- b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'
---> AT+RST
<--- b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'
---> AT+RST
<--- b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'
---> AT+RST
<--- b'AT+RST\r\n'
---> AT+RST
<--- b'AT+RST\r\n'
---> AT+RST
<--- b'@T\x05\x00\x100\x80'
---> ATE0
<--- b'\x00'
---> ATE0
<--- b'\x00'
---> ATE0
<--- b'ATE0\r\n'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "code.py", line 39, in <module>
  File "adafruit_espatcontrol.py", line 86, in __init__
  File "adafruit_espatcontrol.py", line 368, in echo
  File "adafruit_espatcontrol.py", line 339, in at_response
RuntimeError: No OK response to ATE0

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Tonight im going to plop back the esp8266 that was working and then run it overnight with serial open so i can log it

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not concerned about getting the esp32 working but thought to try it 😃

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 1:22 AM

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Does not look like it is. communicating properly.

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If you have a usb to uart cable you can try to connect dir to the ESP32 tx/rx pins.

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 1:24 AM

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i do!

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 1:26 AM

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On Linux use miniterm.py /dev/ttyUSB0 115200

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It does the proper end of line. Screen does not.

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If you connect, juts type AT . The return. Should get OK

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 1:32 AM

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tried 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 firmware versions btw just in case something in the latest was borked

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 1:33 AM

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I just use a simple script on the M4 to talk to the ESP32 or ESP8266. I can post it if you want it.

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 1:33 AM

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and not sure why i cant serial in using a cp2104

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sure, why not~

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 1:34 AM

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Just a minute.

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use for esp8266 or esp32

📎 esp8266comm.py

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Adafruit CircuitPython 4.0.0-alpha.3-43-g80db2cec9 on 2018-12-03; Adafruit Feather M4 Express with samd51j19
>>> import esp8266comm
AT
b'\r\n'
b'OK\r\n'
None

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I typed AT then Return - the rest are responses

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AT+GMR
b'AT version:1.6.2.0(Apr 13 2018 11:10:59)\r\n'
b'SDK version:2.2.1(6ab97e9)\r\n'
b'compile time:Jun  7 2018 19:34:26\r\n'
b'Bin version(Wroom 02):1.6.2\r\n'
b'OK\r\n'
None

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this is an esp8266

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 1:42 AM

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Adafruit CircuitPython 4.0.0-alpha.5 on 2018-12-10; Adafruit Feather M4 Express with samd51j19
>>> import esp8266comm
AT
None
AT+GMR
None

This is on an esp32 wrover with 1.1.2 AT fw

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 1:43 AM

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now on esp32 ```
Adafruit CircuitPython 4.0.0-alpha.3-43-g80db2cec9 on 2018-12-03; Adafruit Feather M4 Express with samd51j19

import esp8266comm
AT
b'AT\r\n'
b'\r\n'
b'OK\r\n'
None
AT+GMR
b'AT+GMR\r\n'
b'AT version:1.3.0.0-dev(6aafec8 - Dec 7 2018 02:23:19)\r\n'
b'SDK version:v3.3-dev-343-g7fa98593b\r\n'
b'compile time:Dec 15 2018 16:35:53\r\n'
b'\r\n'
b'OK\r\n'
None

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so you are not communicating

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 1:44 AM

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yeah will try a different ESP32 board/module

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 1:44 AM

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check rx/tx are crossed

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 1:45 AM

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yep they are

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 1:45 AM

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I always have to do it atl least twice 😉

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try it with your esp8266

velvet badger Dec 19, 2018, 1:47 AM

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Hey all. For some reason when I plug my Hallowing into my windows 10 PC, and try to open the serial console in Mu it gives me a "Could not find attached device..." error. But I can save the code on it and it shows up as attached. Any ideas?

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 1:47 AM

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@velvet badger which version of Mu?

velvet badger Dec 19, 2018, 1:48 AM

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1.0.0

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I plug a different microcontroller in and the serial console works fine.

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Just not working with the Hallowing. Updated the circuitpython uf2 to 3.1.1

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 1:49 AM

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you may need mu 1.0.1

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 1:49 AM

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@velvet badger https://github.com/mu-editor/mu/releases
Try 1.0.1

GitHub

mu-editor/mu

A small, simple editor for beginner Python programmers. Written in Python and Qt5. - mu-editor/mu

velvet badger Dec 19, 2018, 1:49 AM

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Will give it a try. Thanks.

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 1:55 AM

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not sure why I can't connect to serial @solar whale but can see it's response when I connect and screen to the esp32 via the USB

2600) load
I (206) esp_image: segment 4: paddr=0x00130018 vaddr=0x400d0018 size=0xdf390 (914320) map
I (527) esp_image: segment 5: paddr=0x0020f3b0 vaddr=0x4008d178 size=0x01f14 (  7956) load
I (530) esp_image: segment 6: paddr=0x002112cc vaddr=0x400c0000 size=0x00064 (   100) load
I (542) boot: Loaded app from partition at offset 0x100000
I (542) boot: Disabling RNG early entropy source...
Bin version(Wroom32):1.1.2
I (587) wifi: wifi firmware version: de47fad
I (587) wifi: config NVS flash: enabled
I (587) wifi: config nano formating: disabled
I (599) wifi: Init dynamic tx buffer num: 32
I (599) wifi: Init data frame dynamic rx buffer num: 32
I (599) wifi: Init management frame dynamic rx buffer num: 32
I (603) wifi: wifi driver task: 3ffdee6c, prio:23, stack:3584
I (608) wifi: Init static rx buffer num: 10
I (612) wifi: Init dynamic rx buffer num: 32
I (616) wifi: wifi power manager task: 0x3ffe369c prio: 21 stack: 2560
I (651) wifi: mode : softAP (30:ae:a4:21:77:25)
I (658) wifi: mode : sta (30:ae:a4:21:77:24) + softAP (30:ae:a4:21:77:25)
I (662) wifi: mode : softAP (30:ae:a4:21:77:25)```

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 1:56 AM

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That is the console/debug not the AT firmware

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 1:56 AM

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yes, that was just to check if the ESP32 was doing anything at all since the screen via it's tx/rx pins looks blank..

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maybe why i can't connect to it via the m4 , cant even see it directly

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esp8266 with all these works

velvet badger Dec 19, 2018, 1:57 AM

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Upgrading Mu did the trick all. Thanks!

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 1:58 AM

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If you use my build, I think you will see AT on the USB port.

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 1:58 AM

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@velvet badger yaay!

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 1:59 AM

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But my build was for WROOM not sure if it will work on WROVER

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 1:59 AM

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I'm using WROOM too

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 2:00 AM

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Then my build should work via USB

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But use miniterm.py

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But it won’t work via tx/rx do it’s not very useful to you.

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 2:02 AM

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E (547) uart: uart_set_pin(548): tx_io_num error via your build

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have to get going for now for dinner

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 2:02 AM

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Yeah I see that. Does not seem to hurt

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 2:03 AM

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but will poke back again if i at least can screen into the board

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 2:03 AM

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Screen will not work.

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 2:03 AM

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err serial-into

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 2:04 AM

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Good luck!

tidal kiln Dec 19, 2018, 2:05 AM

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RTD / sphinx question - why aren't the properties being documented for this library? example:
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_ADS1x15/blob/master/adafruit_ads1x15/ads1x15.py#L71
isn't showing up:
https://circuitpython-ads1x15.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 2:08 AM

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miniterm

📎 Screen_Shot_2018-12-18_at_6.08.42_PM.png

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 2:09 AM

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type AT

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 2:09 AM

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can't

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It just stays at that cursor until i Quit

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 2:09 AM

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is taht with my build?

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 2:09 AM

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yep

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 2:10 AM

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hmm -- don't know. what board are you using

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 2:11 AM

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https://www.adafruit.com/product/3405

Adafruit HUZZAH32 – ESP32 Feather Board

Aww yeah, it's the Feather you have been waiting for! The HUZZAH32 is our ESP32-based Feather, made with the official WROOM32 module. We packed everything you love about Feathers: built ...

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dis oen

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 2:11 AM

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me too

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 2:11 AM

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oooh also new learn guide website layout 😮

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@solar whale thanks sir! shall retire for now

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 2:13 AM

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sorry -- keep at it!

raven canopy Dec 19, 2018, 2:19 AM

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@tidal kiln looking

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@tidal kiln RTD needs to be kicked. last build was from Oct 2017...

tidal kiln Dec 19, 2018, 2:25 AM

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so the RTD config is all OK?

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 2:25 AM

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@tawny creek -- using my build via USB

📎 log.txt

raven canopy Dec 19, 2018, 2:27 AM

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@tidal kiln according to what i'm seeing in github, yeah. but the build info from the last build shows the old sphinx config. https://readthedocs.org/api/v2/build/6113512.txt

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does the webhook need to be updated?

tidal kiln Dec 19, 2018, 2:27 AM

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dunno

raven canopy Dec 19, 2018, 2:30 AM

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actually...hold on a sec.

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@tidal kiln here is the "correct" link: https://circuitpython.readthedocs.io/projects/ads1x15/en/latest/

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last built 2 weeks ago.

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 2:45 AM

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@tawny creek aha -- minterm.py does not work on my MAC ...

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no idea how to make it work -- works fine on linux

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 3:17 AM

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@tawny creek -- FYI - I found an app that does work on the mac and talks to the ESP32 -- https://www.decisivetactics.com/products/serial/ it has a 7 day free trial -- you need to got to the terminal tab and set the baudrate and then in "terminal settings" set "return key" to CR + LF).

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@tawny creek sorry for all the messages -- but python /usr/bin/miniterm.py /dev/tty.SLABtoUART 115200 does work on my Mac ```[Jerry-desktop-mini-8:~] jerryneedell% python /usr/local/bin/miniterm.py /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART 115200
--- Miniterm on /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART 115200,8,N,1 ---
--- Quit: Ctrl+] | Menu: Ctrl+T | Help: Ctrl+T followed by Ctrl+H ---

ERR CODE:0x01030000

ERROR

ERR CODE:0x01030000

ERROR

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my default python is 2.7.15

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 3:41 AM

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@meager fog here is what I am getting for the https URL request: ```---> AT+CIPSTART="TCP","api.github.com",443,10
<--- b'CONNECT\r\n\r\nOK\r\n'
---> AT+CIPSEND=68
<--- b'\r\nOK\r\n'
<--- b'\r\nRecv 68 bytes\r\n\r\nSEND OK\r\n'
<---: b'C'
<---: b'CL'
<---: b'CLO'
<---: b'CLOS'
<---: b'CLOSE'
<---: b'CLOSED'
<---: b'CLOSED\r'
<---: b'CLOSED\r\n'
Traceback (most recent call last):

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ihere is waht I get from the "webclient" demo ```---> AT+CIPSTART="TCP","wifitest.adafruit.com",80,10
<--- b'CONNECT\r\n\r\nOK\r\n'
---> AT+CIPSEND=66
<--- b'\r\nOK\r\n'
<--- b'\r\nRecv 66 bytes\r\n\r\nSEND OK\r\n'
<---: b'\r'
<---: b'\r\n'
<---: b'\r\n+'
<---: b'\r\n+I'
<---: b'\r\n+IP'
<---: b'\r\n+IPD'
<---: b'\r\n+IPD,'
<---: b'\r\n+IPD,3'
<---: b'\r\n+IPD,31'
<---: b'\r\n+IPD,318'
<---: b'\r\n+IPD,318:'
[b'HTTP/1.1 200 OK', b'Server: nginx/1.10.3 (Ubuntu)', b'Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 03:44:02 GMT', b'Content-Type: text/html', b'Content-Length: 73', b'Last-Modified: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 17:42:29 GMT', b'Connection: keep-alive', b'ETag: "58a5e485-49"', b'Accept-Ranges: bytes', b'', b'This is a test of the CC3000 module!\nIf you can read this, its working :)']
---> AT+CIPCLOSE
<--- b'CLOSED\r\n\r\nOK\r\n'

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this is with huzzah esp32 on feather m4 -- with my mod to the connect function ```diff --git a/adafruit_espatcontrol.py b/adafruit_espatcontrol.py
index 3c4248c..ed76c9f 100644
--- a/adafruit_espatcontrol.py
+++ b/adafruit_espatcontrol.py
@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ class ESP_ATcontrol:
# read one byte at a time
response += self._uart.read(1)
# look for the IPD message

               print("<---:",response)
               if (b'+IPD,' in response) and chr(response[-1]) == ':':
                   i = response.index(b'+IPD,')
                   try:

@@ -226,7 +227,7 @@ class ESP_ATcontrol:
raise RuntimeError("Connection type must be TCP, UDL or SSL")
cmd = 'AT+CIPSTART="'+conntype+'","'+remote+'",'+str(remote_port)+','+str(keepalive)
reply = self.at_response(cmd, timeout=3, retries=retries).strip(b'\r\n')

```
   if reply == b'CONNECT':
```

   if reply[0:7] == b'CONNECT':
       return True
   return False

karmic notch Dec 19, 2018, 3:53 AM

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is there a circuit python guide that can help with multi-tasking. My goal is simple, I want my circuit playground express to play the LED animation along with an audio clip when I press either A or B. Currently, my clip plays but led animation stops while file is playing.

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 3:56 AM

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@meager fog ah -- if I set the URLt request type to SSL if I do that I get ```---> AT+CIPSTART="SSL","api.github.com",443,10
<--- b'CONNECT\r\n\r\nOK\r\n'
---> AT+CIPSEND=68
<--- b'\r\nOK\r\n'
<--- b'\r\nRecv 68 bytes\r\n\r\nSEND OK\r\n'
<---: b'\r'
<---: b'\r\n'
<---: b'\r\n+'
<---: b'\r\n+I'
<---: b'\r\n+IP'
<---: b'\r\n+IPD'
<---: b'\r\n+IPD,'
<---: b'\r\n+IPD,3'
<---: b'\r\n+IPD,30'
<---: b'\r\n+IPD,304'
<---: b'\r\n+IPD,304:'
Failed to connect, retrying
Failed to read proper # of bytes

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and if I capture the response ```---> AT+CIPSTART="SSL","api.github.com",443,10
<--- b'CONNECT\r\n\r\nOK\r\n'
---> AT+CIPSEND=68
<--- b'\r\nOK\r\n'
<--- b'\r\nRecv 68 bytes\r\n\r\nSEND OK\r\n'
<---: b'HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden\nCache-Control: no-cache\nConnection: close\nContent-Type: text/html\n\nRequest forbidden by administrative rules. Please make sure your request has a User-Agent header (http://developer.github.com/v3/#user-agent-required). Check https://developer.github.com for other possible causes.\nC'
Failed to connect, retrying
Failed to read proper # of bytes

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 4:11 AM

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@solar whale thank you! That worked!

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Your built + Python 2.x

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was running it in python3 -- wewps!

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 4:12 AM

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yay! -- too bad you can't use that with the M4

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 4:13 AM

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--- Quit: Ctrl+] | Menu: Ctrl+T | Help: Ctrl+T followed by Ctrl+H ---
A
ERR CODE:0x01030000

ERROR
AT

OK
AT+GMR
AT version:1.3.0.0-dev(6aafec8 - Dec  7 2018 02:23:19)
SDK version:v3.3-dev-343-g7fa98593b
compile time:Dec 16 2018 05:38:30```

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could try again, which version of the ESP AT did you use with the ESP32 feather? (do you have the bin?)

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I think your build is newer than the one available?

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AT version:1.3.0.0-dev vs 1.1.2

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 4:14 AM

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I built it from source and flashed it.

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 4:15 AM

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ill try that, maybe there's enough difference ?

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 4:15 AM

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if you have trouble . I can rebuild it and send you the .bins

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I'll make sure I can reproduce mine!

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 4:17 AM

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I'll try building first and bother ya if i have issues, should be okay though -- will report what i find !

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 4:18 AM

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ok -- good practice for me as well.

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@tawny creek when I build - it complains about missing "xrld" -- if I just type make again -- it continues and completes.. not sure what the issue is but it works. Also I went int make menuconfig (then select AT ) and disable AT BLE since I don't need it

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ah just needed to install xrld sudo pip2 install xrld worked for me

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 4:33 AM

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Good tips! Will encounter these too prolly, still cloning...

manic glacierBOT Dec 19, 2018, 4:39 AM

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CarlFK

[adafruit/circuitpython] Fork created: CarlFK/circuitpython

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 5:00 AM

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@tawny creek -- I do have a single file .bin that can be flashed if you need it.

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 5:00 AM

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@solar whale sure! I'm still going through building the toolchain 😓

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 5:01 AM

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📎 factory_WROOM-32.bin

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/usr/local/bin/esptool.py --chip esp32 --port /dev/ttyUSB0 --baud 115200 --before default_reset --after hard_reset write_flash -z --flash_mode dio --flash_freq 40m --flash_size detect 0 factory_WROOM-32.bin

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 5:02 AM

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Wooo!

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ty sir!

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 5:02 AM

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it has teh full 4Mbytes filled in

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 5:02 AM

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burning now

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📎 Screen_Shot_2018-12-18_at_9.07.58_PM.png

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interestiiing

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 5:08 AM

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I have to get to bed --- I hope it works! 💤

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 5:08 AM

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night night! thanks again @solar whale

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 5:09 AM

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it taht via tx/rx -- it wont work via USB

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 5:09 AM

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yep via TX/RX

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 5:10 AM

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hmmm -- try hooking it up to the M4 and use my esp8266comm program

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if that does not work, I'm stumped

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I'll be around tomorrow if you are still having trouble -- good luck and good night!

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 5:17 AM

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psst it worrks @solar whale

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sleep well!

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 5:17 AM

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does it really work?

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 5:17 AM

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<--- b'CLOSED\r\n\r\nOK\r\n'
OK
Parsing JSON response...USD per bitcoin: 3770.2
Free memory: 137.078
0

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oh yeah 😄

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im scrolling on a charlieplex display too 😃

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 5:18 AM

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yay -- I will sleep well! hanve fun!

manic glacierBOT Dec 19, 2018, 9:45 AM

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nickzoic

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on issue #1048: nrf: implement touchio\.TouchIn

I've attached UF2 builds for the development kit and for the much awaited feather 52840!

firmware_uf2_pca10056.zip
firmware_uf2_feather_nrf52840_express.zip

manic glacierBOT Dec 19, 2018, 12:22 PM

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framlin

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on issue #519: More accurate time reporting

Hello, I am totally new to this circuitpython stuff.
What I am looking for, is a timer-callback, that will be executed repeatedly after a certain period of time (something like setInterval(callback, period) in JavaScript).
This should run asynchronous, that means, that my program is not sleeping, but could do other stuff meanwhile.
Is that possible with circuitpython? If so, is there any example?

manic glacierBOT Dec 19, 2018, 12:46 PM

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deshipu

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on issue #1409: Driver for SHARP memory displays

I had several attempt at writing a driver for those, but somehow I can't get them to work, even if I reproduce the Arduino logic exactly. There is some black magic at work in there, possibly having to do with timings.

manic glacierBOT Dec 19, 2018, 1:05 PM

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deshipu

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on issue #1409: Driver for SHARP memory displays

By the way, is there a datasheet available for the 168x144 one somewhere? I couldn't find anything.

marble hornet Dec 19, 2018, 1:45 PM

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How is the dma spi activated?

manic glacierBOT Dec 19, 2018, 2:07 PM

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dhalbert

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on issue #519: More accurate time reporting

@framlin - sorry, we don't have callbacks or other asynchronous features right now (they are in MicroPython but we're not using them). We're working on coming up with simpler concurrency mechanisms that are easy to understand, e.g. https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/issues/1380.

teal bear Dec 19, 2018, 3:12 PM

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https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/blob/master/README.rst#core "mpy-cross A cross compiler that converts Python files to byte code prior to being run in MicroPython"

GitHub

adafruit/circuitpython

CircuitPython - a Python implementation for teaching coding with microcontrollers - adafruit/circuitpython

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should that be CircuitPython ?

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 3:14 PM

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It is part of the "core" common to MicroPython and CircuitPyhohn

teal bear Dec 19, 2018, 3:23 PM

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similar question about the MicroPython listed under https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/blob/master/README.rst#ports

GitHub

adafruit/circuitpython

CircuitPython - a Python implementation for teaching coding with microcontrollers - adafruit/circuitpython

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and what I a really looking for is build instructions

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 3:27 PM

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@meager fog I made new .bins for the ESP32 -- I have a single file (all 4Mbytes) for an external ESP32 using the Tx?RX pins and I did a little cleanup on the "argon" build so have a new zip file and I new exable script witht he updated md5 checksums. Do you want me to post them here? and submit a PR for the miniesptool_esp32multifile.py or ido you want to hold off for now? Also, do oyu have some changes you are going to PR to ESP_ATcontrol? I have one change so far for the connect() but did not want to confuse things. I can wait until you have your changes in. I still want to do some more work on send() parsing.

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@teal bear there is a guide here https://learn.adafruit.com/building-circuitpython or there are buil instruction for specific ports in the repostories for each port https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/tree/master/ports/atmel-samd#building

Building CircuitPython

How to build CircuitPython yourself on different platforms

GitHub

adafruit/circuitpython

CircuitPython - a Python implementation for teaching coding with microcontrollers - adafruit/circuitpython

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what board are you trying to build CP for?

teal bear Dec 19, 2018, 3:42 PM

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@solar whale eventually https://github.com/fupy/micropython/tree/master/ports/fupy

GitHub

fupy/micropython

MicroPython port to litex FPGA platforms. Contribute to fupy/micropython development by creating an account on GitHub.

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but first I want to build it for something supported, then unix, then qemu

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fupy on Arty, and later https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/fomu/

Crowd Supply

Fomu

An FPGA board that fits inside your USB port

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 3:44 PM

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ah -- interesting, but out of my area of experince -- I'll let others follow-up

manic glacierBOT Dec 19, 2018, 3:47 PM

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framlin

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on issue #1380: Using message queues for asynchronous processing $thoughts$

Hm, I do not fully understand, why such a MessageQueue model should be easier to understand than callbacks. Maybe it's, because I am used to callbacks ;-)
What is so special with your target customers, that you think, they do not understand callbacks?

I think, you have to invest much more brain in managing a couple of MessageQueues for different types of events (ethernet, i2c, timer, exceptions, spi, .....) or one MessageQueue, where you have to distinguish between different types of even...

teal bear Dec 19, 2018, 3:54 PM

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@solar whale pointing me to the readme in ports helped, missed that.

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 3:55 PM

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@teal bear for some ports there are more specific instructions for each board in the boards folder (see the nrf ports and various boards)

tawny creek Dec 19, 2018, 5:16 PM

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@solar whale been running the esp32 example overnight and it’s running without issues so far😊

manic glacierBOT Dec 19, 2018, 6:22 PM

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CarlFK

[adafruit/circuitpython] Issue opened: #1410 build Zerro error

docs and reality don't match:

https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/tree/master/ports/atmel-samd#building

To build for the Arduino Zero:
make

carl@twist:~/src/circuitpython/ports/atmel-samd$ make
Makefile:3: *** You must provide a BOARD parameter.  Stop.
carl@twist:~/src/circuitpython/ports/atmel-samd$

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ladyada

[circuitpython:ladyada\-patch\-1] 1 new commit

a9f0b31 Update README.rst - ladyada

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ladyada

[adafruit/circuitpython] New branch created: ladyada\-patch\-1

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ladyada

[adafruit/circuitpython] Pull request opened: #1411 Update README\.rst

https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/issues/1410

stuck elbow Dec 19, 2018, 6:45 PM

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Did anyone recently test the OLED FeatherWing with CircuitPython?

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 7:14 PM

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how recently -- what problem are you haveing

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@stuck elbow I have one connected if there is something you want me to try

manic glacierBOT Dec 19, 2018, 7:19 PM

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dhalbert

[adafruit/circuitpython] Pull request closed: #1411 Update README\.rst

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dhalbert

[circuitpython:master] 2 new commits

a9f0b31 Update README.rst - ladyada
ca60a03 Merge pull request #1411 from adafruit/ladyada-... - dhalbert

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 7:22 PM

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@stuck elbow I can write to mine 128x32 OLED featherwing -- using bitmapfont and framebuf.py

idle owl Dec 19, 2018, 7:24 PM

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@tulip sleet Did we ever figure out why the new repos aren't showing up on Travis?

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There is one

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wait... hold on

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the link is all wrong

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it's there.

tulip sleet Dec 19, 2018, 7:26 PM

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@idle owl I fixed miniesptool and ATControl. They had webhook integrations with Travis. I deleted the webhooks but they did not show up as available to migrate. I asked travis support and they had me change the list of repos temporarily to specific ones (those) instead of "all". Then they showed up, I migrated them, and then switched back to all. I'll forward you an email.

idle owl Dec 19, 2018, 7:26 PM

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Thank you

stuck elbow Dec 19, 2018, 7:49 PM

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@solar whale thanks, I had some problems with it, turns out it's related to reset

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it only works after you reset it once manually

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 7:52 PM

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hmm -- not seeing that on mine

stuck elbow Dec 19, 2018, 7:52 PM

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maybe the reset circuit is broken on mine

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you didn't pass a reset pin, did you?

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 7:52 PM

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just a secon have to look

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no - no reset pin defined

stuck elbow Dec 19, 2018, 7:54 PM

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were there several revisions of that wing?

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 7:54 PM

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If I recall correctly yes -- and a change to RESET was part of it.

stuck elbow Dec 19, 2018, 7:54 PM

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ah, that would explain it

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 7:55 PM

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some times they come up as a scatter of pixels

stuck elbow Dec 19, 2018, 7:55 PM

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mine is really old

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yeah, basically they don't accept data

old tangle Dec 19, 2018, 7:55 PM

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Is it possible for the Trinket Pro 5V to use circuit python or is it FTDI only?

stuck elbow Dec 19, 2018, 7:56 PM

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@old tangle it's Arduino only

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you need at least Trinket M0 for CircuitPython

old tangle Dec 19, 2018, 7:56 PM

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Ah, okay, thanks.

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 7:57 PM

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I think one of mine behaves taht way

manic glacierBOT Dec 19, 2018, 7:57 PM

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siddacious

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on issue #1380: Using message queues for asynchronous processing $thoughts$

I like the idea of message queues but I'm not convinced that they're any easier to understand than interrupt handers. Rather I think that conceptually interrupt handlers/callbacks are relatively easy to understand but understanding how to work with their constraints is where it gets a bit more challenging. Message queues are a good way of implementing the "get the operable data out of the hander and work on it in the main loop" solution to the constraints of interrupt handlers but as @deship...

stuck elbow Dec 19, 2018, 8:03 PM

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Got it to work with my tutorial, now I just need to change all the code examples.

📎 IMG_20181219_210103.jpg

prime flower Dec 19, 2018, 8:56 PM

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@tulip sleet Does the RFM9x build exclude framebuf?

tulip sleet Dec 19, 2018, 8:57 PM

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yes because it's non-Express, so no room

prime flower Dec 19, 2018, 8:57 PM

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okay

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thanks, whipping up a ping-pong-y demo and wasnt sure if i could use the ssd1306 with it

tulip sleet Dec 19, 2018, 8:58 PM

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could try a feather express + rfm9x wing + display (use a doubler or tripler)

prime flower Dec 19, 2018, 8:58 PM

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Yep - going to do that next 😃

manic glacierBOT Dec 19, 2018, 8:59 PM

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kattni

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on issue #1335: Order of import statements impacts memory?

Added to Expectations FAQ.

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ladyada

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on issue #1410: build Zerro error

closin' cause i think dox are now clear. please reopen if its still not right :)

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ladyada

[adafruit/circuitpython] Issue closed: #1410 build Zerro error

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 9:20 PM

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@buoyant wigeon this eample is working on my feather_m0_express with esp8266 AT -- I lowered the baud rate for the ESP8266 after initializing it. esp.baudrate = 9600 ```import time
import board
import busio
from digitalio import DigitalInOut
import adafruit_espatcontrol

MY_SSID = "yourssid"
MY_PASS = "yourpassword"

URL = "http://api.coindesk.com/v1/bpi/currentprice.json"

uart = busio.UART(board.TX, board.RX, baudrate=115200, timeout=0.1)
resetpin = DigitalInOut(board.D5)

print("Get bitcoin price online")

esp = adafruit_espatcontrol.ESP_ATcontrol(uart, 115200, reset_pin=resetpin, debug=True)
esp.baudrate=9600
print("Connected to AT software version", esp.get_version())

while True:
try:
# Connect to WiFi if not already
print("Connected to", esp.remote_AP)
if esp.remote_AP[0] != MY_SSID:
esp.join_AP(MY_SSID, MY_PASS)
print("My IP Address:", esp.local_ip)
# great, lets get the JSON data
print("Retrieving price...", end='')
header, body = esp.request_url(URL)
print("OK")
print(body)
except RuntimeError as e:
print("Failed to connect, retrying")
print(e)
continue

time.sleep(60)

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<---: b'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Type: application/javascript\r\nContent-Length: 673\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\nAccess-Control-Allow-Origin: *\r\nCache-Control: max-age=15\r\nDate: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 21:20:32 GMT\r\nExpires: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 21:21:07 UTC\r\nServer: nginx/1.12.1\r\nX-Powered-By: Fat-Free Framework\r\nAge: 12\r\nX-Cache: Hit from cloudfront\r\nVia: 1.1 0e13fb4d27ad66ea3b1e7f3e7e64b042.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)\r\nX-Amz-Cf-Id: dY6P-qqCLaTowqucvL9a32d79JvYAVlamzxsFrGeyR9jJpWHHf2PCQ==\r\n\r\n'
[b'HTTP/1.1 200 OK', b'Content-Type: application/javascript', b'Content-Length: 673', b'Connection: keep-alive', b'Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *', b'Cache-Control: max-age=15', b'Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 21:20:32 GMT', b'Expires: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 21:21:07 UTC', b'Server: nginx/1.12.1', b'X-Powered-By: Fat-Free Framework', b'Age: 12', b'X-Cache: Hit from cloudfront', b'Via: 1.1 0e13fb4d27ad66ea3b1e7f3e7e64b042.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)', b'X-Amz-Cf-Id: dY6P-qqCLaTowqucvL9a32d79JvYAVlamzxsFrGeyR9jJpWHHf2PCQ==', b'', b'']
---> AT+CIPCLOSE
<--- b'20:00 UTC","updatedISO":"2018-12-19T21:20:00+00:00","updateduk":"Dec 19, 2018 at 21:20 GMT"},"disclaimer":"This data was produced from the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (USD). Non-USD currency data converted using hourly conversion rate from openexchangerates.org","chartName":"Bitcoin","bpi":{"USD":{"code":"USD","symbol":"&#36;","rate":"3,755.4933","description":"United States Dollar","rate_float":3755.4933},"GBP":{"code":"GBP","symbol":"&pound;","rate":"2,976.8857","description":"British Pound Sterling","rate_float":2976.8857},"EUR":{"code":"EUR","symbol":"&euro;","rate":"3,301.9762","description":"Euro","rate_float":3301.9762}}}CLOSED\r\n\r\nOK\r\n'
OK
b''

buoyant wigeon Dec 19, 2018, 9:23 PM

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@solar whale Thanks.. will test it...

manic glacierBOT Dec 19, 2018, 9:30 PM

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ladyada

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on issue #1048: nrf: implement touchio\.TouchIn

ok tested with a repl - works! do you want to start a PR?

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 9:56 PM

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@buoyant wigeon FYI -my test evetually failed witha memory allocation error

buoyant wigeon Dec 19, 2018, 9:59 PM

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@solar whale I had something other to do... but testing now... It seems it is working OK... not all attempts BUT YES

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 10:00 PM

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good -- yes, there will be many retries. Hopfully there will be updates soon to reduce them.

buoyant wigeon Dec 19, 2018, 10:24 PM

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@solar whale You are right ... sometimes "MemoryError: memory allocation failed, allocating 1099 bytes"

solar whale Dec 19, 2018, 10:25 PM

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yes ... sigh... this is pushing the M0 to it's limits

manic glacierBOT Dec 20, 2018, 12:18 AM

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nickzoic

[adafruit/circuitpython] Pull request opened: #1412 Nickzoic/circuitpython nrf touchin 1048

Adds touchio.TouchIn to the NRF port. Works by driving an analog-capabile pin high and then measuring the rate of discharge through a 1Mohm resistor to ground. See #1048 for details of implementation.

teal bear Dec 20, 2018, 12:30 AM

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circuitpython/ports/unix$ ./micropython
MicroPython 4.0.0-alpha.5-26-g5e4b3a8 on 2018-12-19; linux version

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what can I do to confirm this is CP and not MP?

tulip sleet Dec 20, 2018, 12:39 AM

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@teal bear we don't have a unix port for CircuitPython. What are you trying to do?

teal bear Dec 20, 2018, 12:47 AM

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@tulip sleet you do now 😉

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PR coming once I dig out what was needed - mostly installing packages

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my short term goal is CP on Arty fpga

tulip sleet Dec 20, 2018, 1:02 AM

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@teal bear That sounds great! We have done zero with the unix part of the tree. That's just left over from MicroPython. So it doesn't include all the CircuitPython-specific stuff like GPIO and peripheral support. You might want to start with ports/atmel-samd and gut the common-hal part and replace it with what works on the fpga board.

There are people trying to get TinyUSB running on an FPGA. Scott is helping them and that will bootstrap getting USB support in CPY (if your board has that).

fierce girder Dec 20, 2018, 1:44 AM

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@teal bear what soft CPU core is loaded on the FPGA?

teal bear Dec 20, 2018, 1:46 AM

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lm32

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im confused: >>> sys.implementation
(name='circuitpython', version=(4, 0, 0))

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good.

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import storage
ImportError: no module named 'storage'

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all the modules seem to be micropython flavor

fierce girder Dec 20, 2018, 2:00 AM

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Are you running the Linux kernel on the lm32 in this configuration?

teal bear Dec 20, 2018, 2:03 AM

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I have lots of configs going on right now :p

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I just got CP to build on linux - that's what I am pasting from above

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I have MP compiled for lm32, that's running on the fpga

fierce girder Dec 20, 2018, 2:12 AM

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It would make more sense to use CPython on Linux and leverage Blinka. Add support for lm32 / Arty to Blinka and then you can use the CircuitPython libraries. I added BeagleBone support to Blinka, so CPython (Python 3) on BeagleBone can now make use of the CircuitPython libraries from PyPI

manic glacierBOT Dec 20, 2018, 2:13 AM

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nickzoic

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on issue #1048: nrf: implement touchio\.TouchIn

I opened https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/pull/1412 but I
should do some minor code cleanup of stuff like comments.

teal bear Dec 20, 2018, 2:48 AM

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@fierce girder how does that get me CP on fpga?

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er, is CPython Cpython or CircuitPython?

fierce girder Dec 20, 2018, 2:52 AM

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I mean CPython, e.g. normal Python

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Once you have a processor running Linux, there isn't really a point to having CircuitPython. Because you have normal Python implementation (CPython or PyPy). Blinka is a Python 3 library that supports Pi and BeagleBone. Blinka allows CircuitPython libraries to used from Python 3. This means that drivers for sensors can be written as CircuitPython libraries and then used on Pi and BeagleBone by leveraging Blinka.

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Alternatively, you could port CircuitPython to the lm32 just as MicroPython was ported to the lm32. In which case, that firmware is running on the lm32, not the Linux kernel.

manic glacierBOT Dec 20, 2018, 3:10 AM

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dty717

[adafruit/circuitpython] New star added

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 3:11 AM

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@meager fog ugh -- now I see that my concern the the connect() function in ESP_ATcontrol was incorrect. its fine. I find that slowing down to 9600 baud helps the reliability a lot. I still think I can imporve the send() parsing, but haven't made any progress. I plan to work on getting a "POST" command working so I can send data to Adafruitio via webhooks. I think I'll concetrate on that for awhile.

lone sandalBOT Dec 20, 2018, 3:17 AM

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franksalas

[adafruit/awesome-circuitpython] Fork created: franksalas/awesome-circuitpython

teal bear Dec 20, 2018, 3:20 AM

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@fierce girder not sure linux+cPython will fit on https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/fomu/

Crowd Supply

Fomu

An FPGA board that fits inside your USB port

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it is only that big 😉

fierce girder Dec 20, 2018, 3:24 AM

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Sure. That is a good reason to avoid running Linux kernel on lm32

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So it does make sense to run a small Python implementation as firmware, like MicroPython, instead of Linux

teal bear Dec 20, 2018, 3:27 AM

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more fun too 😉

fierce girder Dec 20, 2018, 3:29 AM

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I guess an issue is that fupy has a fork of MicroPython. https://github.com/fupy/micropython/tree/master/ports/fupy

GitHub

fupy/micropython

MicroPython port to litex FPGA platforms. Contribute to fupy/micropython development by creating an account on GitHub.

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It's unclear to me how much work it would be to add fupy port to CircuitPython

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It's too bad that fupy isn't in the upstream MicroPython

teal bear Dec 20, 2018, 3:31 AM

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it is in my local repo 😉

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doesn't build yet. but it's on my list

teal bear Dec 20, 2018, 5:54 AM

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https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/blob/master/py/py.mk#L292 calls makeversionhdr.py to make $(HEADER_BUILD)/mpversion.h

GitHub

adafruit/circuitpython

CircuitPython - a Python implementation for teaching coding with microcontrollers - adafruit/circuitpython

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never mind.. it is getting called, but mpversion.h isn't being used.. I guess

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juser@gator:~/temp/circuitpython/ports/unix$ ./micropython
MicroPython 4.0.0-alpha.5-28-gca60a034c on 2018-12-19; linux version
juser@gator:~/temp/circuitpython/ports/unix$ grep MICROPY_FULL_VERSION_INFO build/genhdr/mpversion.h
#define MICROPY_FULL_VERSION_INFO ("Adafruit CircuitPython " MICROPY_GIT_TAG " on " MICROPY_BUILD_DATE "; " MICROPY_HW_BOARD_NAME " with " MICROPY_HW_MCU_NAME)

teal bear Dec 20, 2018, 6:18 AM

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circuitpython/ports/unix/build/genhdr$ ack MicroPython
qstr.i.last 619974: mp_hal_stdout_tx_str("MicroPython " "4.0.0-alpha.5-28-gca60a034c-dirty" " on " "2018-12-20" ";

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that. make that not be that. >:

manic glacierBOT Dec 20, 2018, 8:24 AM

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CarlFK

[adafruit/circuitpython] Pull request opened: #1413 Document building for Unix/Linux

I'm not sure how complete this is, it is what I needed, so I'm done for now.

TODO.txt lists 4 issues.
They aren't blockers, and not even worth cluttering up the issue tracker.
But some day someone may wander in here and it will be nice to know the landscape.

and hey, the tests pass.

672 tests performed (19057 individual testcases)
672 tests passed
26 tests skipped: buffered_writer builtin_help builtin_range_binop class_delattr_setattr cmd_parsetree extra_coverage framebuf1 fra...

buoyant wigeon Dec 20, 2018, 1:26 PM

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@solar whale Some news about ESP_ATcontrol?

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 1:26 PM

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@buoyant wigeon I have nothing new.

buoyant wigeon Dec 20, 2018, 1:30 PM

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@solar whale I have seen something in communication, and it seemed to me that it was something new... OK, I'm still at work 🙁

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 1:33 PM

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I reported last night that one issue I thought I found was actually OK so does not need to be fixed. I have found that lowering the baud rate to 9600 seems to help make it more reliable.

buoyant wigeon Dec 20, 2018, 3:33 PM

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@solar whale FYI ... with baudrate=9600 and esp8285 success 😀

📎 unknown.png

gusty topaz Dec 20, 2018, 3:35 PM

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Saw the latest post on CP support for Particle Argon (nRF52 + WiFi). Excellent work, you guys are moving fast!. Quick question: any news on supporting the Bluefruit nRF52 currently on Adafruit?. I understand it's in early Alpha, but I'm not sure if bluetooth capabilities are currently available.

main meteor Dec 20, 2018, 3:39 PM

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I'm not holding my breath for CP on nRF8001, though!

gusty topaz Dec 20, 2018, 3:40 PM

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I meant CP support for this feather: https://www.adafruit.com/product/3406

Adafruit Feather nRF52 Bluefruit LE

The Adafruit Feather nRF52 Bluefruit is another easy-to-use all-in-one Bluetooth Low Energy board, with a native-Bluetooth chip, the nRF52832! It's our take on an ...

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 3:45 PM

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@gusty topaz there has been alpha support for it up to now, but last week it was decided to drop it since it does not support native USB. The focus is on the nrf52840s.

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I think I'll revert mine back to MyNewt

gusty topaz Dec 20, 2018, 3:48 PM

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That's too bad... I was waiting for at least beta support for the nRF52832

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What's MyNewt?

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 3:50 PM

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https://www.adafruit.com/product/3574 same board - with a SWD header ,DFU button and MyNewt Firmware.

Adafruit Feather nRF52 Pro with myNewt Bootloader

The Adafruit Feather nRF52 Pro is another Bluetooth Low Energy board for advanced projects and users who want to use a fully open source Bluetooth Low Energy 5.0 stack. It has ...

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really need the JLink to set it up.

gusty topaz Dec 20, 2018, 3:52 PM

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What benefit does MyNewt bring to the table?

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 3:53 PM

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just another development environment/RTOS

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https://mynewt.apache.org

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I only did some simple examples with it before switching to CP. Looking forward to finding time to get back to it.

gusty topaz Dec 20, 2018, 4:15 PM

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Got it.

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So, is there currently BLE stack support in the CP alpha for the upcoming nRF52840 Feather Express?

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 4:28 PM

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the bleio module is a "work in progress"

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yes it is supports the nrf52840

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https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/tree/master/ports/nrf/common-hal/bleio

GitHub

adafruit/circuitpython

CircuitPython - a Python implementation for teaching coding with microcontrollers - adafruit/circuitpython

gusty topaz Dec 20, 2018, 4:32 PM

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@solar whale thanks!.

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 4:34 PM

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@gusty topaz the support is pretty limited and there are issues to be resolved

gusty topaz Dec 20, 2018, 4:36 PM

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got it. I noticed the Particle Argon has an nRF52840 + ESP32.
Are there plans to bring full CP support to it?

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 4:40 PM

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The nrf52840 support is the the full CP -- same as the other 52840 boards. Right now hte only way to use the ESP32 is to flash the AT firrmware to it and use the new ESP_ATControll library. https://learn.adafruit.com/adding-a-wifi-co-processor-to-circuitpython-esp8266-esp32 It is also a "work in progress" but it is functional.

Adding a WiFi Co-Processor to CircuitPython

Surf the 'net with Blinka!

prime flower Dec 20, 2018, 4:43 PM

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experimental 😃

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 4:43 PM

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One warning -- I have installed this on an Argon and it is working well, but I have not attempted to restore the Argon to the Particle mesh firmware it was delivered with -- I don't know if can be done. I would expect so, but can't confirm that. I don't plan to "go back"

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@gusty topaz FYI -- I had been using an nrf52832 feather for a project and I found that he Particle Xenon board was an excellent replacement -- I expect the new feather 52840 to be the same. Looking forward to getting one.

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The xenon nad the feather 52840 are much nicer than the feather 52832 in that they have QSPI flash chips and native USB and work with the UF2 Bootloader.

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For the particle boards, you need to flash a new bootloader with a J-Link.

gusty topaz Dec 20, 2018, 4:56 PM

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ohh wait.. you are right!, I hadn't thought of it that way. The Xenon has the same hardware as the upcoming nRF52840 Feather Express, right?. So I could install CP on it? (I already have 2 Xenons).

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 4:57 PM

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yes -- Works great!

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it is in the Alpha5 release

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BTW -- particle finally updated their firmware so My (other) xenon is also able to join a mesh network with an (other) Argon -- pretty slick!

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before it would not work with Xfinity routers...

gusty topaz Dec 20, 2018, 5:01 PM

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Wait, when you say the Xenon is capable to join a mesh network with an Argon... none of those boards is running CP, right?

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 5:02 PM

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no -- those are with the Particle.io firwmare installed

gusty topaz Dec 20, 2018, 5:03 PM

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that;s what I thought. IF the regular CP for nRF52840 runs smoothly on a Xenon, I might just sacrifice one and install CP on it just to play with it. Have you tried to "go back" to Particle's firmware?

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 5:03 PM

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no - not yet ...

gusty topaz Dec 20, 2018, 5:07 PM

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Well.. I think it's worth the risk! 😬

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 5:07 PM

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me too! blinka

gusty topaz Dec 20, 2018, 5:09 PM

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Thanks @solar whale , I really appreciate it. You just gave me some ideas for future projects. Hopefully CP will be released as a stable version for these boards soon.

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 5:10 PM

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Good luck with your projects. There is a lot of rapid development underway -- Fun times 😉

manic glacierBOT Dec 20, 2018, 5:22 PM

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dhalbert

[adafruit/circuitpython] branch deleted: ladyada\-patch\-1

manic glacierBOT Dec 20, 2018, 5:59 PM

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ladyada

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on pull request #1413: Document building for Unix/Linux

hiya - thanks for the PR - i'm not sure why you'd want CircuitPython on unix since you can get full Python so easily :) is this for regression/testing purposes?

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ladyada

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on pull request #1412: Nickzoic/circuitpython nrf touchin 1048

thanks, we're having a lil nrf52 build issue but as soon as the builds work i can test this on hardware :)

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 6:12 PM

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@meager fog what's the nrf build issue?

idle owl Dec 20, 2018, 6:13 PM

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It's some weird ones.

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 6:13 PM

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I can build for the boards I am using

idle owl Dec 20, 2018, 6:14 PM

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@solar whale It builds but they're not working right apparently.

manic glacierBOT Dec 20, 2018, 6:15 PM

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CarlFK

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on pull request #1413: Document building for Unix/Linux

yes, regression/testing: having a reference to compare other builds to.

This is part of my plan to port CircuitPython to this FPGA board https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/fomu/

I can see it being useful to people writing in CircuitPython - they can quickly edit/test on their laptop or a remote machine, no need to have a device plugged in. But that's just me making stuff up, no idea if it will ever actually happen.

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 6:15 PM

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ah -- OK -- I'll look for details -- I have not had any problems recently.

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may be on code not yet merged to master

manic glacierBOT Dec 20, 2018, 6:26 PM

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ladyada

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on pull request #1413: Document building for Unix/Linux

ooh that's interesting! with tinyusb support for the fomu and us using tinyusb as the core usb library for circuitpython, it might work out nicely :) might be a couple weeks till we get to reviewing PRs, since its holiday break time, but please keep sending 'em!

idle owl Dec 20, 2018, 6:27 PM

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@solar whale I think it's master... Something with it resetting and making it a single click to the bootloader. They're trying to nail down where the issue started.

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Which is apparently a big deal because we don't have CircuitPython reset when it borks, we have it hang so we can see what happened.

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 6:29 PM

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interesting -- I had not noticed that - is it the bootloader or CP?

idle owl Dec 20, 2018, 6:29 PM

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CP for sure. Bootloader is fine evidently.

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The single click is presumably because it's already reset once so one click gets you back to the bootloader

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There was a lot more to the discussion, but that's the easiest bit for me to extract

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 6:32 PM

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OK - thanks -- I wonder if it is only on the new feather nrf52840 or all nrf52s -- I have mostly been using the particle boards and have not noticed a problem.

idle owl Dec 20, 2018, 6:32 PM

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Oh.... that might be it yes, it might be related to the new one. That may be why you're not having an issue.

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 6:33 PM

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Thanks for the info. Hope it gets resolved soon.

tidal kiln Dec 20, 2018, 6:42 PM

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hey @idle owl how'd workshop go?

idle owl Dec 20, 2018, 6:43 PM

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@tidal kiln Really well, apparently! Thanks for asking! I have another one this evening. The first one was at the local hackerspace, this one is for the local Python Users group.

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There's a video of the one from Monday but I haven't reviewed it yet so it hasn't gone up.

tidal kiln Dec 20, 2018, 6:44 PM

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cool cool. good luck with one tonight!

idle owl Dec 20, 2018, 6:44 PM

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Thanks! I'm super nervous as always 😄

tidal kiln Dec 20, 2018, 6:45 PM

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ha! and it's python users. hopefully it won't digress into pythonic esoterica

idle owl Dec 20, 2018, 6:46 PM

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Right?... I had one person arguing how MicroPython compared before my talk even began on Monday 😆

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I said it was beginnery so we'll see. I'm sure my basic understanding of certain things will catch up with me at tonight's.

tidal kiln Dec 20, 2018, 6:47 PM

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"you should use a lambda function with a generator inside a list comprehension!!!"

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 6:49 PM

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You should never user the phrase "you should" ... 😉

manic glacierBOT Dec 20, 2018, 7:04 PM

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CarlFK

[adafruit/circuitpython] Issue opened: #1414 tinytest\-codegen\.py 't' is not defined

def script_to_map(test_file):
    r = {"name": chew_filename(test_file)["func"]}
with open(t) as test:

https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/blob/master/tools/tinytest-codegen.py#L24-L26

    with open(t) as test:
NameError: name 't' is not defined

obviously this is the fix: with open(test_file, "rb") as f:
but then more things break

   s = s.decode()
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

I suspect a merge mixed some python 2 and 3...

idle owl Dec 20, 2018, 7:38 PM

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@tidal kiln Ping me when you're around

tidal kiln Dec 20, 2018, 7:41 PM

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@idle owl ping

teal bear Dec 20, 2018, 7:42 PM

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does someone want to review Kattni's video? review = https://github.com/CarlFK/veyepar/wiki/Reviewer

GitHub

CarlFK/veyepar

Video Eyeball Processor and Review. Contribute to CarlFK/veyepar development by creating an account on GitHub.

idle owl Dec 20, 2018, 7:43 PM

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@tidal kiln I need a little help with archiving a library. There's some issues and PRs on it and I'm not sure if they should be merged/addressed/added to CP lib

tidal kiln Dec 20, 2018, 7:43 PM

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np. linky?

idle owl Dec 20, 2018, 7:43 PM

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https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Python_MPR121

GitHub

adafruit/Adafruit_Python_MPR121

Python library for interfacing with a MPR121 capacitive touch sensor on the Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone Black, etc. - adafruit/Adafruit_Python_MPR121

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The one with examples is probably fine I guess? But the other one changes core code

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and I think we have the functionality in all the issues, but I'm not certain

tidal kiln Dec 20, 2018, 7:50 PM

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ISS 4: not a repo issue, should ask in forums
ISS 6: i fixed that in CP driver
ISS 10: not a repo issue, should ask in forums
PR 1: CP driver takes a different approach, but supports what they are trying to do
PR 2: ask them to resubmit if they want using code with CP version of library

idle owl Dec 20, 2018, 7:51 PM

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Ooh well done, better than I would have done. Thank you.

tidal kiln Dec 20, 2018, 7:52 PM

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for iss 6, might as well give them links to the work done on the CP side....

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issue:
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_MPR121/issues/11
pr:
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_MPR121/pull/13

idle owl Dec 20, 2018, 7:53 PM

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Thank you

tidal kiln Dec 20, 2018, 7:53 PM

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still open in arduino land if anyone wants to fix it there :)
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_MPR121/issues/20

teal bear Dec 20, 2018, 8:46 PM

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ports/qemu-arm$ make => build/py/parsenum.o: In function mp_parse_num_integer': parsenum.c:(.text.mp_parse_num_integer+0x6e): undefined reference to translate'

stuck elbow Dec 20, 2018, 8:46 PM

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by the way, google summer of code org registration starts 15 Jan, should CP participate?

teal bear Dec 20, 2018, 8:46 PM

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how do the supported builds get translate ?

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im pretty sure I need to put this somwhere: #include "supervisor/shared/translate.h"

river quest Dec 20, 2018, 9:11 PM

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hi hi @stuck elbow !

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we'd like to do that if there was some help to make sure it was done good' if you are interested, let me know pt@adafruit.com

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we can work out how to make it happen together if ya want

stuck elbow Dec 20, 2018, 9:12 PM

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ok, I will try

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 9:20 PM

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@meager fog Do you want to update the .bin files for the ESP32 AT Firmware. I have a new set for the Argon (minor change - just got rid of an annyong erro message by disabling the console UART) and I have a single 4Mbyte file for the ESP32 Huzzah Feather (factory.bin) . I can drop them here and put in a PR for the miniesptool_esp32multifile.py with updated checksums if you want. I don't think there is any functional change. I thought the load file for the standalone ESP32 might be useful if you are going to recommend it for SSL.

manic glacierBOT Dec 20, 2018, 9:55 PM

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notro

[adafruit/circuitpython] Pull request opened: #1415 RFC: async/await \+ uselect \+ i2cslave

I've had a longterm goal to try and use i2cslave with async/await since it looked like a simple way of gettting multitasking in CircuitPython.
Inspired by issue #1380 I set out to see what it could look like.

I haven't done much testing, the main purpose at this stage is to serve as an async/await example in the async discussion.

I was pleased to find that uselect had a flexible signalling mechanism for I/O. I think it can also be used for pin interrupts.

This scheduler/eventloop is...

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notro

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on issue #1380: Using message queues for asynchronous processing $thoughts$

See #1415 for an async/await example.

meager fog Dec 20, 2018, 10:09 PM

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@solar whale heya i can make you an author of the guide

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and you can Go To Town

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wnna do that? 😃

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id prefer not hvaing a 4BMB file if we can avoid it - since express boards are 2mb

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sparse is better

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 10:10 PM

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sure -- the 4Mbye is not for miniesptool -- just for flashing via USB

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I also can make a zip of the sparse files -- I can't test uing miniesptool to an external ESP32 though.

meager fog Dec 20, 2018, 10:11 PM

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you'd have to maintain 2 then

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which is ok by me

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just FYI

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you could try trimming' 0xFF's from the end

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might fit on an argon

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 10:12 PM

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but not needed on argon -- teh zip file has the sparse load for the argon now

meager fog Dec 20, 2018, 10:13 PM

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@solar whale are you in the learning system

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i cant remember :/

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 10:13 PM

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Yes

meager fog Dec 20, 2018, 10:13 PM

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can you point me at a guide you did

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so i can grab yr username

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 10:14 PM

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just a sec -- I just made some adds to a few --

meager fog Dec 20, 2018, 10:14 PM

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ok brb

solar whale Dec 20, 2018, 10:14 PM

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https://learn.adafruit.com/micropython-hardware-sd-cards

CircuitPython Hardware: SD Cards

Learn how to use a microSD card to store code & data with CircuitPython and MicroPython!

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and some additions to this one https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-bme280-humidity-barometric-pressure-temperature-sensor-breakout

Adafruit BME280 Humidity + Barometric Pressure + Temperature Senso...

Buld your next weather and enviromental sensing system

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@meager fog I was kind of thinking that the miniesptool example would only be for loading to the argon and then provide the big.bin for a simple way to flash a feather HuzzahESP32 via USB. Do you also want an example of flashing ann external EPS32 via miniesptool? I'll need to get one of the Espressif boards to be able to test that since it did not work with wires on my Huzzah. I can do that if you want , but it will take some time. I'll work on the rest over this weekend.

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I have to go for awhile -- will check back later.

meager fog Dec 20, 2018, 11:19 PM

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@solar whale ahh ok you're now added

solar whale Dec 21, 2018, 12:11 AM

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Thanks. I’ll try not to mess it up 😉

manic glacierBOT Dec 21, 2018, 1:34 AM

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CarlFK

[adafruit/circuitpython] Pull request opened: #1416 ports/qemu\-arm builds

Add CP files to micropython's Makefile.
It builds, it runs, but tests aren't happy. - see TODO.txt for notes about that.

manic glacierBOT Dec 21, 2018, 1:56 AM

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CarlFK

[adafruit/circuitpython] Pull request opened: #1417 Sync with micropython\. closes \#1414

tools/tinytest-codegen.py
allows this to run:
ports/qemu-arm $ make -f Makefile.test test

manic glacierBOT Dec 21, 2018, 2:36 AM

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dhalbert

[adafruit/circuitpython] Pull request opened: #1418 Don't check for corrupt heap too early; Fix QSPI timing

RGB led was being used before stack_init(), so assert_heap_ok() was being called too early. Ignore heap check if stack not allocated yet.
Multiple issues with nrf qspi_flash.c:

Two bitfield setting bugs: wrong or missing Pos values.
read function didn't return false if error
minor cleanup.
32 MHz QSPI frequency was too fast when paired with GD25Q16C, even though that chip is supposed to be good up to 104 MHz. Not clear if it was SPI flash chip's fault or an issue ...

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dhalbert

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on pull request #1416: ports/qemu\-arm builds

@CarlFK I'm sorry to say we don't want to support the qemu-arm build. It has no CircuitPython features added to it. We took it out of our build several months ago because it wasn't useful to us at all.

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dhalbert

[adafruit/circuitpython] Pull request closed: #1416 ports/qemu\-arm builds

tulip sleet Dec 21, 2018, 2:47 AM

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@teal bear could we talk about the qemu-arm and other non-supported CPy ports? I want to understand what your goals are; don't want to discourage you, but want to make you aware of the changes we've made relative to MPy.

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We have a bunch of devices under ports/ that are just left over from forking MicroPython. We haven't brought these up to date, but haven't deleted them either, to make merging from upstream easier.

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the nrf and atmel-samd ports are active. We are going to discontinue esp8266 in 4.0.

teal bear Dec 21, 2018, 2:49 AM

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@tulip sleet - my long term goal is CP on https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/fomu/

Crowd Supply

Fomu

An FPGA board that fits inside your USB port

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so I want various 'simpler' ports before I dive into 'that'

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i not looking for a fully functional CP, just something that builds and boots/runs/doesn't crash

tulip sleet Dec 21, 2018, 2:51 AM

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nrf and atmel-samd depend on shared-bindings, shared-modules, and each has their own common-hal. We added that structuring to the source tree. it's not used by the other ports. We've also refactored main.c into a common one (not per port), etc., etc. All the other non-CPy ports don't have all this, and we don't expect them to build. We just keep them around so the merges will happen as fast forwards in those directories.

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got it - does the fomu support an ARM core, or does it have its own architecture and its own toolchain for its CPU core?

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ok, I clicked the link - I see a RISC-V core

teal bear Dec 21, 2018, 2:53 AM

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it supports lm32 and I think risk-v

tulip sleet Dec 21, 2018, 2:53 AM

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are both little-endian? we make that assumption a lot of places

teal bear Dec 21, 2018, 2:54 AM

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don't know, but just a sec I have the dev's ear just now...

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if you do IRC, freenode #timvideos xobs

tulip sleet Dec 21, 2018, 2:54 AM

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i don't have irc right now

manic glacierBOT Dec 21, 2018, 2:55 AM

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hathach

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on pull request #1418: Don't check for corrupt heap too early; Fix QSPI timing

maybe we should check for NRFX_RETURN for spi_flash_write_command and spi_flash_read_command as well

tulip sleet Dec 21, 2018, 2:56 AM

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@teal bear are there gcc-based toolchains for lm32 and risc-v?

teal bear Dec 21, 2018, 2:56 AM

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yes

manic glacierBOT Dec 21, 2018, 2:56 AM

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hathach

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on pull request #1418: Don't check for corrupt heap too early; Fix QSPI timing

need an eagle eye to catch this typo :+1:

tulip sleet Dec 21, 2018, 2:57 AM

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A RISC-V port would be great! We just haven't had anyone start with that yet. THe RISC V chips we know of don't have native USB, so they were less interesting due to not being able to do CIRCUITPY mass storage.

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The Fomu would just be one board under a general RISC-V port.

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The way to start would be to, say, copy the atmel-samd tree, and then start replacing all the samd-specific stuff

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it's not worth trying to start with qemu-arm or something else that hasn't already been adapted to our port style

solar whale Dec 21, 2018, 2:59 AM

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@tulip sleet Did not see these
issues on the particle boards. Do they used a different flashchip? Or did I just not trigger the problems?

teal bear Dec 21, 2018, 2:59 AM

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we have micropythron running on lm32 on Arty https://github.com/timvideos/litex-buildenv/wiki/HowTo-FuPy-on-a-Digilent-Arty-A7

GitHub

timvideos/litex-buildenv

An environment for building LiteX based FPGA designs. Makes it easy to get everything you need! - timvideos/litex-buildenv

tulip sleet Dec 21, 2018, 3:02 AM

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@solar whale i don't know the answer to that. It may be layout or something about the flash chips. Those flash chips are rated 133 MHz, so they would be the highest speed. So these fixes will cut their speed in half.

solar whale Dec 21, 2018, 3:02 AM

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Ah- I see that the particle are same as pca10056

tulip sleet Dec 21, 2018, 3:03 AM

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I see MX25L. The PCA10056 is MX25R, which is 8 MHz in our table.

solar whale Dec 21, 2018, 3:03 AM

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Oops. Sorry.

tulip sleet Dec 21, 2018, 3:04 AM

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@teal bear you could reuse parts of the hal layer from micropython for that, same idea as above

teal bear Dec 21, 2018, 3:04 AM

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@tulip sleet xobs: They're different endiannesses. I think it's lm32 that's big.

tulip sleet Dec 21, 2018, 3:04 AM

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yeah, I think scott mentioned that. oy.

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we assume stack grows down, etc.

teal bear Dec 21, 2018, 3:05 AM

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does that mean I shouldn't bother trying CP on lm32?

tulip sleet Dec 21, 2018, 3:05 AM

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there would just be a lot of code to check or conditionalize for endianness

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it would certianly be possible, but more work - maybe not a huge deal

teal bear Dec 21, 2018, 3:06 AM

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sounds like too much work for .. likely no point.

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the point of the intermediate steps is to have references of things that work, and not a 2nd thing that doesn't work either

tulip sleet Dec 21, 2018, 3:06 AM

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yes, it's like a huge problem set, and how many lm32 boards really want to run CPy?

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what are the flash and ram sizes for the fomu?

teal bear Dec 21, 2018, 3:08 AM

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128 and 2m

tulip sleet Dec 21, 2018, 3:09 AM

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128kB?

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flash?

teal bear Dec 21, 2018, 3:09 AM

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yes - heres the specs https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/fomu#comparisons

Crowd Supply

Fomu

An FPGA board that fits inside your USB port

tulip sleet Dec 21, 2018, 3:09 AM

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other way round?

teal bear Dec 21, 2018, 3:09 AM

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er, no.

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too many tabs :p

tulip sleet Dec 21, 2018, 3:10 AM

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that's plenty roomy

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@solar whale argon is set up as SPI flash, not QSPI for some reason.

manic glacierBOT Dec 21, 2018, 3:11 AM

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dhalbert

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on pull request #1418: Don't check for corrupt heap too early; Fix QSPI timing

@jerryneedell points out this will affect the Particle boards too. It will cut their QSPI speed in half. They are using MX25L which has 133 MHz max, so they'll run at 16 MHz instead of 32 MHz.

I don't know why they appear to work but the Feather does not.

solar whale Dec 21, 2018, 3:12 AM

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Is xenon the same as argon. I'm not sure where to look.

tulip sleet Dec 21, 2018, 3:13 AM

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look in ports/nrf/boards/*/mpconfigboard.mk. QSPI_FLASH_FILESYSTEM vs SPI_FLASH_FILESYSTEM. I seem to remember maybe there were schematic diffs, but I might be making that up.

solar whale Dec 21, 2018, 3:14 AM

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Xenon is qspi

tulip sleet Dec 21, 2018, 3:15 AM

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it's possible they needed the pins for something else

solar whale Dec 21, 2018, 3:16 AM

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In the morning. I can pull the or and try it on argon and xenon if that would be helpful.

tulip sleet Dec 21, 2018, 3:18 AM

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sure, it should work. if you've seen that CIRCUITPY is stable on those boards, then good, if not, then this might be the reason. Limor was testing and CIRCUITPY seemed very flaky. It might also be that the GD25Q16C's are flaky, but they work OK on the itsy M4. could be a combination of the nrf chip peripheral and the GD25Q's. I await advice from the more experienced folks on this.

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@teal bear so see how things go and feel free to circle back for consultations

solar whale Dec 21, 2018, 3:19 AM

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I have not noticed any problems and I've been using them a lot this past week.

tulip sleet Dec 21, 2018, 3:20 AM

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i just have one Feather 52840 to test with, but Limor saw similar probs. I'm not sure Scott did, he has just one also.

solar whale Dec 21, 2018, 3:24 AM

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I'll let you you know if I see any impact with the PR. Should be able to try it in the morning.

tulip sleet Dec 21, 2018, 3:24 AM

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thanks

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i will relax for the rest of the evening 😃

solar whale Dec 21, 2018, 3:25 AM

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Well deserved!

manic glacierBOT Dec 21, 2018, 5:33 AM

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notro

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on pull request #1415: RFC: async/await \+ uselect \+ i2cslave

Here's the output of a run: https://gist.github.com/notro/6e1028f000dd7d54de07a868d7519181
These are the i2c requests from that run:

$ i2cget -y 1 0x30 0x02
0x00
$ i2cset -y 1 0x30 0 1

manic glacierBOT Dec 21, 2018, 6:17 AM

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eighthree

[adafruit/circuitpython] Pull request opened: #1419 Updated Tagalog translations

New translations for 4.x
Updated modified translations

manic glacierBOT Dec 21, 2018, 11:32 AM

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jerryneedell

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on pull request #1418: Don't check for corrupt heap too early; Fix QSPI timing

I downloaded this PR and built images for the Particle Xenon and Argon boards. Both appear work normally. No obvious impact.
I also tried changing the setting for the Argon in mpconfigboard.mk from using SPI_FLASH_FILESYSTEM = 1
to
QSPI_FLASH_FILESYSTEM = 1
and rebuilt. This also works normally on the Argon
Was this a "typo". Should it be changed?

FYI - I accidentally loaded the Xenon build to the Argon and it worked fin except for the missing pin definitions...

manic glacierBOT Dec 21, 2018, 12:36 PM

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raveenb

[adafruit/circuitpython] New star added

solar whale Dec 21, 2018, 2:55 PM

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@tulip sleet my Argon has been happily running for a few hours with the PR installed (and using QSPI ) no issues -- happliy checking bitcoin prices 😉

waxen basin Dec 21, 2018, 3:42 PM

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Hello everyone !! I'm Ben and I just joined the circuitPython family. I got a Huzzah32. It's up and running. Here's my question. I'm kind of new to Python, and I'm use to VS Code for development. I would love to benefit from Intellisense , formatting and llinting wile writing my code. Right now, because MicroPython is not installed on my mac, I don't have any of that. What is your workflow? Should I create a Micropython environment on my mac, or can I just grab all the libraries and add them to my PATH in Python 3? I'm exciting to learn more on Python / MicroPython for Microcontrollers !! Thank you for your help !!

stuck elbow Dec 21, 2018, 3:46 PM

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@waxen basin I'm afraid it's non-trivial to get that to work with VS Code

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@waxen basin part of the problem is that even if you install micropython on your mac, it will be the unix version of micropython, with different libraries than the esp32 micropython

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(plus, I doubt VS code can use it)

waxen basin Dec 21, 2018, 3:47 PM

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ohhhh ... okay, I didn't know that. Thanks gor the info

stuck elbow Dec 21, 2018, 3:48 PM

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so one thing that people have done, they made "stub" libraries of all the libs they use, but for python3

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they only contain all the classes and functions, without actual code

waxen basin Dec 21, 2018, 3:49 PM

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I don't know what a "stub" library is, but that sounds like the second option I had in mind

stuck elbow Dec 21, 2018, 3:49 PM

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yeah, that's pretty much it

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except many of the libraries are implemented in C in the micropython itself, so they don't have python code

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so for those you will have to write "dummy" libraries

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just to get the code completion working

waxen basin Dec 21, 2018, 3:50 PM

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that would be all i need. I'm not planning on using Micropython anywhere else than embedded on a microcontroller

stuck elbow Dec 21, 2018, 3:51 PM

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you might try googling around, it's possible someone already did all the work

waxen basin Dec 21, 2018, 3:51 PM

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I'm gonna try to find some

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would be awesome

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something like that : https://github.com/dastultz/micropython-pyb

GitHub

dastultz/micropython-pyb

Pyboard placeholder module for IDE code completion - dastultz/micropython-pyb

stuck elbow Dec 21, 2018, 3:54 PM

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yeah, though the pyb module is specific to the PyBoard

waxen basin Dec 21, 2018, 3:57 PM

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yes, just the first one I found, but I imagine that if it exists for the pyBoard, a more generic version should exists somewhere.🤞

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what's your worflow?

stuck elbow Dec 21, 2018, 4:04 PM

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I just use vim, nothing fancy

manic glacierBOT Dec 21, 2018, 4:18 PM

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bboser

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on pull request #1418: Don't check for corrupt heap too early; Fix QSPI timing

The particle argon and xenon eagle files spec different flash chips. Not clear what is actually on the PCBs or if this matters (flash on both boards works with CP, but I tested with slower speeds than the CP repo).

Would it be feasible to check which chip is actually on the board, rather than getting this information from a configuration file?

manic glacierBOT Dec 21, 2018, 4:58 PM

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dhalbert

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on pull request #1418: Don't check for corrupt heap too early; Fix QSPI timing

@bboser We do actually check the chip id. We just list the possible chips for each board in mpconfigboard.mk, and we only include the settings for chips known to be on the board in the firmware for that board. That saves a little space. For many boards, it's just one chip, for some of our boards, we've used more than one chip.

manic glacierBOT Dec 21, 2018, 5:31 PM

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dhalbert

[adafruit/circuitpython] New comment on pull request #1418: Don't check for corrupt heap too early; Fix QSPI timing

I tried setting the pin drives to high and it didn't help. Leaving at 16 MHz for now. Did a new push with some minor cleanup.

solar whale Dec 21, 2018, 5:43 PM

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@tulip sleet is it working now on the feather52840?

tulip sleet Dec 21, 2018, 5:45 PM

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Yes, for me at 16 MHz. Tried some things to get it back to 32 that didn’t work, so I’ll leave it there for now.

solar whale Dec 21, 2018, 5:53 PM

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Good to know -- pulled updated PR and ran on Argon - still happy -- should I put in a PR to change the SPI to QSPI on the Argon?

upbeat plover Dec 21, 2018, 5:58 PM

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https://learn.adafruit.com/circuitpython-on-raspberrypi-linux/installing-circuitpython-on-raspberry-pi

CircuitPython on Linux and Raspberry Pi

Make hardware and interface with sensors super easy using CircuitPython

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im stuck on enable second spi, is it needed?

solar whale Dec 21, 2018, 6:02 PM

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only if you have the main SPI already tied up.

upbeat plover Dec 21, 2018, 6:02 PM

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okay

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also i did
ls /dev/spi*
and it shows only
/dev/spidev0.0 /dev/spidev0.1

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pi zero w

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should it have the
/dev/spidev1.0 /dev/spidev1.1 /dev/spidev1.2
?

solar whale Dec 21, 2018, 6:05 PM

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no just 0.0 and 0.1

upbeat plover Dec 21, 2018, 6:05 PM

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okay thank you, ill continue on tut and see how it goes

solar whale Dec 21, 2018, 6:06 PM

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I don't use the 2nd SPI

upbeat plover Dec 21, 2018, 6:06 PM

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im actually not going to be using the SPI, but just wanted to install everything correctly

tidal kiln Dec 21, 2018, 6:07 PM

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@upbeat plover yah, you don't need it unless you need it. but what problem did you run into? does guide need fixing?

solar whale Dec 21, 2018, 6:07 PM

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good idea -- as long as blinkatest runs its should be OK

upbeat plover Dec 21, 2018, 6:09 PM

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enabling second SPI is where i was having issues, i think i followed tut correctly

but when i
sudo nano /boot/config.txt
couldnt find where to place
dtoverlay=spi1-3cs

tidal kiln Dec 21, 2018, 6:10 PM

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just add it at the end is fine

upbeat plover Dec 21, 2018, 6:10 PM

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okay thanks ill do that

tidal kiln Dec 21, 2018, 6:10 PM

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and you have to reboot for them to show up in /dev

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but, yah, you can skip that for now

upbeat plover Dec 21, 2018, 6:11 PM

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that should be added to tut, nothing says something about reboot there

tidal kiln Dec 21, 2018, 6:11 PM

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it does 😃

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to the bottom of /boot/config.txt and rebooting

upbeat plover Dec 21, 2018, 6:12 PM

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oh dargh

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your correct

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ill see what pops up now for the
ls /dev/i2c* /dev/spi*
now

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Everything is there. 😃 thank you @tidal kiln & @solar whale

tidal kiln Dec 21, 2018, 6:15 PM

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np. getting the blinkatest.py to run is the important thing.

upbeat plover Dec 21, 2018, 6:15 PM

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installing blinka now

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i hope it works, want to use pi zero w to check stuff in the grow room with VNC from my phone anywhere

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works well, had a type but other then that works very well... im happy with it. had "budio" instead of

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"busio"

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i notice ill have to change some code for my feather m4 stuff to work
board.SCLK
from
board.SCK

tidal kiln Dec 21, 2018, 6:27 PM

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hmmm. wonder why that's different on the pi?

upbeat plover Dec 21, 2018, 6:27 PM

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i was wondering the same

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i did a
print(dir(board)) with my blinka test and noticed that SPI is labeled a little differently

tidal kiln Dec 21, 2018, 6:29 PM

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not sure, but may just be following existing naming convention already in place for the various boards

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so, rpi has SCLK:
https://pinout.xyz/#

upbeat plover Dec 21, 2018, 6:29 PM

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its not really a big deal just need to remember it when copying code from other projects

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hmm didnt realize i need ADC for analog

upbeat plover Dec 21, 2018, 6:53 PM

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to read analog i need ADC? and to write analog i need DAC?

stuck elbow Dec 21, 2018, 6:57 PM

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yup

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analog to digital converter, and digital to analog converter, respectively

solar whale Dec 21, 2018, 7:02 PM

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@idle owl @raven canopy 🛠 the floodgates are open 😉

idle owl Dec 21, 2018, 7:02 PM

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WE ARE DOING THIS

raven canopy Dec 21, 2018, 7:02 PM

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mayyyybe 😆

meager fog Dec 21, 2018, 7:03 PM

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OMG RIP MY INBOX

idle owl Dec 21, 2018, 7:03 PM

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BLOWING IT UP

raven canopy Dec 21, 2018, 7:03 PM

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Belated warning: Email boxes will feel pain today. Sowwy! (but its for a good cause)

meager fog Dec 21, 2018, 7:04 PM

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@upbeat plover we just did a re-release of blinka, if you can pip3 update it

solar whale Dec 21, 2018, 7:04 PM

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Im going to reply to every one of those emails 😉

meager fog Dec 21, 2018, 7:04 PM

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@upbeat plover you can help test it 😃

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me too!

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@solar whale ill get to wifi stuff again this weekend

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i have some gfx cleanup i want to do

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get soft-framebuf implemented, oleds working again

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then oleds working with pillow on linux

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then deprecating the old oled lib

raven canopy Dec 21, 2018, 7:05 PM

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btw...the flood is not over. i missed a conditional check and we aborted on it.... re-launch in 3, 2, 1... 🚀

solar whale Dec 21, 2018, 7:05 PM

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@meager fog np -- I'll try to get guide updates in this weekend as well

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look forward to framebuf -- I'll be happy to test.

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upgraded blinka on a RPi 3B+ -- nothing broken ... yet

meager fog Dec 21, 2018, 7:14 PM

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thanks, it should now work on pi zero as well

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and we can do the original pi's next

solar whale Dec 21, 2018, 7:14 PM

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cool! I've been using zerow's but not zeros

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ohh - i have a zero

upbeat plover Dec 21, 2018, 7:15 PM

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how do you update?

solar whale Dec 21, 2018, 7:18 PM

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@upbeat plover pip3 install --upgrade adafruit-blinka

tidal kiln Dec 21, 2018, 7:21 PM

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Mugatu: "That Travis Badge...."

raven canopy Dec 21, 2018, 7:22 PM

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😆

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Did anyone warn the Prime Minister of Malaysia?

solar whale Dec 21, 2018, 7:23 PM

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We should forward all the messages to @raven canopy

raven canopy Dec 21, 2018, 7:24 PM

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i think its almost over. @solar whale i'm feeling it too. I'm getting the Travis passed/failed plus merge emails. 😄

idle owl Dec 21, 2018, 7:24 PM

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Just be glad I'm not taking the time to approve them all before merging 😆

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I just created a Travis filter. Like... 5 minutes ago. 😄