It works in the endless loop, but later, I don't think I could turn it off?
#circuitpython-dev
meager turret
solar whale
if you have otehr stuff goin on the it will stay lit if set onece outsisde the loop, as long as there is a loop and code.py does not exit.
it will turn off when code.py exits.
meager turret
I'll try the time.sleep and see if that makes a difference. I thought i could just set it high and leave.
Thanks
solar whale
https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/blob/master/main.c#L205 the board is reset when code.py exits.
meager turret
Thanks! This is making more sense now. I put time.sleep(10) and it stayed lit for 10 seconds and then the program exited.
solar whale
secifically the red_led is reset! https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/blob/master/main.c#L206
actaull, I think the status_led (line 206) is the neopixel, but the board reset is probably what truns off the D13 LED.
basically you have a"clean start" after code.py exits.
meager turret
That's awesome. I'd struggle for awhile before I saw the Discord channel on Adafruit. Thanks so much.
solar whale
you are welcome! We are here to help any time.
slender iron
@idle owl want to run tomorrow's meeting?
idle owl
@slender iron Oh right, I think we had planned on that. Can you send me a link to a notes template though? I couldn't get the Google doc headers to work last time.
slender iron
did you have trouble after copying the stats?
idle owl
I don't remember now.
slender iron
I think the line endings in it are wrong
idle owl
Ah
slender iron
I don't have trouble until I copy that it
idle owl
Well we end up changing it up for GitHub anyway. I guess it doesn't matter.
Right on, good to know
@slender iron Do you want to take notes?
slender iron
ya, I can help
idle owl
I ended up doing both for the meeting you weren't here, so it's doable
idle owl
😃
slender iron
😃
idle owl
Feel free to remind me about time codes though. We'll see if it's sunk in yet 😄
slender iron
haha, ok. still want me to start the doc?
meager fog
@umbral dagger elu! we've had some reqs for "how to burn the bootloader" onto a bricked M0 or M4 feather/metro/itsy/gemma/trinket
would you be interested in writing a guide?
i think easiest way is with jlink + arduino IDE
but command line would also be helpful perhaps
idle owl
@slender iron Sure if you could, then I can have your template to start with. And I'll have it for next time.
slender iron
I don't have a template but I can create one
idle owl
Oh. I can create one then. Don't worry about it. I was thinking you had one.
slender iron
nope, 😃
idle owl
Fair enough 😄
slender iron
kk, thanks! I'm off to run since the sun is out
idle owl
Have fun!
slender iron
thanks!
solar basin
I've made a lot of progress rendering things on the 2.4" TFT FeatherWing with the Feather M4 Express: https://gist.github.com/tjpeden/eebb85001aee98489723453510246fa9
river quest
posted this up today, and will be in newsletter, good stuff' https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/01/13/adafruit-library-usage-on-raspberry-pi-raspberry_pi-adafruit-circuitpython-raspberrypi-circuitpython/
solar basin
I also made an Angular app to convert images to the binary format that the ILI9341 expects (16 bit color; big endian) which has made rendering a bit faster, but it's still not as fast as I'd like (reading from SD card in chunks and then writing those chunks to the display in turn adds some unavoidable overhead)
I'll post more about that after I get a few things cleaned up on it
ruby atlas
solar basin
Does anyone have a better way to use the stmpe610 than what I've done? It's pretty clunky the way I've done it.
main meteor
I wrote an app once that pulled images off an SD card and displayed them, but it was tough to get smooth animation. I ended using the on-chip flash for my images, which was much faster.
solar basin
The 2MB flash?
main meteor
Yes. If your images will fit there along with the code (mine did), it's an option.
Or the program flash on the CPU (which is what I used)
pastel panther
@solar basin That sounds awesome! I would love to check it out when you have something you're willing to share
solar basin
@pastel panther I'll share it in a day or two
pastel panther
@solar basin have you done any work with html5 canvas or other similar things?
( i think canvas is html5, maybe not)
solar basin
Yeah, that's actually what I'm using. I load the images using the browser, draw them to canvas and then I can read the image from canvas in 32 bit color
pastel panther
nice! Mind if I hit you with a DM?
solar basin
Not at all
ruby atlas
hah using canvas is awesome. i'd probably have use Python and PIL.
solar basin
I'm a web developer in my day job so I am more comfortable in JS, I've only been writing Python for a little over a week, and only CircuitPython lol
idle owl
@solar basin I learned Python through CircuitPython! 😃
solar basin
It's certainly a lot easier than writing c/c++ for hardware lol
ruby atlas
That is true!
Are you a C/C++ hardware coder guy by day?
(I'm a polyglot, dealing with many languages most days, but preferring Python)
solar basin
I too am a polyglot. I use JS/NodeJS at work, C/C++ for most of my hardware project (until now), I'm also super interested Rust for hardware
solar basin
Ooo in the Embedded Working Group?
exotic pumice
sorta, not contributing to the working group directly, we have our own github organization for samd
solar basin
Does that work on the atsamd51?
solar basin
Now that I have the M4 Express, it'd be fun to play with Rust on it
exotic pumice
I have a blinky working on samd51, but not uart/spi/i2c afaik so some things still need work
but the 21 is plenty competent
it's not like rust is so memory hungry or something you need the 51
the PR for '51 is here https://github.com/atsamd-rs/atsamd/pull/31
and neopixel stuff is going down here https://github.com/smart-leds-rs
solar basin
@exotic pumice I don't have a 21 lol
exotic pumice
ok
maybe you can help me figure out what's wrong with the 51 lol
I think it's to do with peripheral clocks but it's hard to tell
do you have metro m4 express or feather or what?
solar basin
Feather M4 Express
exotic pumice
ok, that's good, once we get this pr in I can add a board def for that and get you to test it
if you'd be willing
exotic pumice
would you like to join our gitter? https://gitter.im/atsamd-rs/community?utm_source=share-link&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=share-link
solar basin
Done
meager turret
Does anybody know of a straightforward way of mixing RGB colors in CircuitPython for a "dumb" RGB strip led? I found FancyLED, but I think it's just for the NeoPixel.
pastel panther
@meager turret You can probably pull the individual RGB values out of the FancyLED magic and feed them to the individual LEDs
It doesn't directly drive the addressable leds, it just generates color values so the end target should be flexible
meager turret
I'm trying to usePWM and the duty cycle to mix the colors. Do you mean to scale the duty cycle consistent with the value of 255 for each color?
pastel panther
Yes
meager turret
I'll give it a go. I was googling for some sort of library, but I don't think it exists. Thanks!
pastel panther
If you roll your own class to handle the color setting for the individual LEDs, it would be cool to share it here if you're willing
meager turret
That's a bit beyond my skill level, but it'll be my stretch goal 😃
pastel panther
Don't short change yourself. I think you can probably do it 😉
meager turret
Thanks for the encouragement. If I get it, I'll absolutely share it.
cinder dune
So I have yet another question
I'm using a for loop to make a fade animation with my strip of neopixels
It looks something like this:
for i in range(251):
pixels[0:150] = [(0,0,i)] * 150
pixels.show()
for i in reversed(list(range(251))):
pixels[0:150] = [(0,0,i)] * 150
pixels.show()
Now I want to be able to make every other pixel be a different color
Than the pixel before it
Oh wait I think I figured it out!
raven canopy
@cinder dune adding a step to the slice? did it work? (not sure if stepping is implemented)
cinder dune
I did this pixels[1::2] = [(0,0,i)] * 75 @raven canopy
Not sure if that is what stepping is or not
raven canopy
yep. that is stepping. [start:end:step]
raven canopy
no worries. its basically the same thing that range will do: for i in range(0, 10, 10) is the same as for i in range(1).
raven canopy
Python 3.6.2 (v3.6.2:5fd33b5, Jul 8 2017, 04:57:36) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>>> for i in range(0,10,10):
print(i)
0
>>>
oh. hehe. happens. 😄
cinder dune
I really am enjoying my neopixels, I'm trying to get it where I can get a nice rainbow effect on each indvidual led
All at the same time
pastel panther
@cinder dune It can be fun and educational to code something like that yourself, however if you'd like a canned solution, the FancyLED library does fades very well
main meteor
It's easy enough to have all the LEDs progress through a rainbow in synchrony. It's a little trickier to have them out of phase, so the rainbow appears to move down the road, but not that hard.
idle owl
<@&356864093652516868> Here is the notes doc for tomorrow's CircuitPython Weekly: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14lsAkhJql6-TrnJUBMyj5CPC2iu-hz2ry3HFqY2VHyo/edit?usp=sharing
main meteor
Yeah, 1 pixel between glyphs doesn't always look right
raven canopy
note to self: when subtracting unsigned integers, and checking if the result is greater than n...make sure you place the numbers on the correct side of the operator. or, remain puzzled... 😄
main meteor
I've made that gaffe too.
raven canopy
i started looking into my debug output, thinking that the number resolution was getting reduced. then that moment came: "i'm subtracting a larger number, from a smaller number, all without a sign bit. aren't i?". 🤦
main meteor
That sounds all too familiar! You aren't the only one who's done that!
raven canopy
woohoo! i am not alone! hehe
meager fog
@solar whale heya since you have it set up could you make me a custom esp32 firmware zip
with RTS on IO33
(and RX/TX on the RXD0 and TXD0 pads)
slender iron
@main meteor @raven canopy its best done when looping
ruby atlas
oh fun, fighting with submodules
raven canopy
bleh. i don't look forward to fixing the conflicts if i ever get FrequencyIn finished. i think i'm still pre-tinyusb. 😬
ruby atlas
I gave up because I couldn't get the build to go anymore thanks to submodules.
I did make the merge succeed, with effort, but then just copied everything over to a clean repo
And then force pushed that to my fork
raven canopy
hehe. manual copy files, hard reset, glue everything back in. 😄
ruby atlas
yep.
much easier w/o submodules
but add submodules in and... ... not worth the time.
raven canopy
well, mine requires a submodule update of its own. adds that extra layer of fun.
raven canopy
which one(s) are you getting stuck on?.... oh, n/m. looks like you got it. 🎉
ruby atlas
I'm likely going to need submodule updates, but I've got like 5 different ideas about how we might migrate to pixelbuf.
oh, i wasn't stuck.
I gave up and did it the "easy" way.
I've been doing git for ... uh ... since 2006.
raven canopy
its a magical place, that git.
ruby atlas
better than svn, cvs, rcs, hg.
raven canopy
my only experience is with git. can't imagine others having a higher barrier to entry... 😬
raven canopy
then git is where i'll stay. well, assuming that is a logical line to draw in the sand.
solar whale
@meager fog here is the esp32-at build with RTS on gpio33 - also attaching the flash command I used to load it via USB. I loaded it to an ESPRESSIF ESP32 board. After loading, I can talk to it via the USB port so it looks like it is using RX0,TX0 OK but I am not able to get it to work with a feather_m4_express. Not sure why. How are you planning to use this? Let me know if you need something different.
solar whale
@meager fog FYI -- I have never been able to get the ESPRESSIF ESP32 board to work with my featherm4_express via TX0/RX0 -- it works if I lost the standard AT firmware and use GPIO16/17.
solar whale
@meager fog do I have to remove the R17/R18 (zero ohm resistors) to TXD0/RXD0 on the ESPressif board to be able to ust the TX/RX GPIO pins? From the schematic, they are tied to the USB bridge via R17/R18. https://dl.espressif.com/dl/schematics/esp32_devkitc_v4-sch-20180607a.pdf I think this explains why I have not been able to get this to work via TX/RX. If I remove them, then USB wont work, but I should be able to use miniesptool, correct? Looks like you cannot have the USB connected via R17/R18 and use TX/RX
modern wing
Would it be allright if I joined today's call just as a fly on the wall? I'm working on a few things here so I can't chat, but I'd like to hear what's new....
raven canopy
@modern wing of course it is! Just mention you're lurking at the start..
modern wing
@raven canopy Awesome 😃 Is it at 11 eastern today, or did I get that mixed up?
solar whale
@modern wing The CP weekly is at 2PM EST 11 PST
modern wing
Thank you @solar whale 😃 Usually I'm a day late and a dollar short....I'm way early this time.
dark prism
hey that's me ^ 😅
solar basin
Using adafruit_stmpe610, what is the best way to detect a single "click"? I've tried reading the first touch point from the buffer and "draining" the rest, but it's kind of flakey that way. Some "clicks" don't tend to start out in the boundaries of "buttons" but I feel like the "average" of the touch points of a "click" might be a more accurate representation of "where the click happened." Thoughts? Examples (other than the two in the library)? Solutions?
tidal kiln
@slender iron @idle owl can't make meeting today. nothing much to report on the CP front. hugs added to notes. cheers.
idle owl
@tidal kiln cheers! Thanks for letting us know!
pastel panther
hey all, here is my #circuitpython-dev2019 post; better late than never?
https://github.com/siddacious/CircuitPython2019
idle owl
@slender iron I haven't proofed it yet, and I will blog it up sometime today, but here is my post: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mEuxN9sHbZF4jKvBpvjcfztR1SgtD8ANqxvnDMHqoNw/edit?usp=sharing
idle owl
No idea, lol. I'm kind of out of the meme loop.
slender iron
😃
idle owl
<@&356864093652516868> and anyone else interested, CircuitPython weekly meeting in a few minutes!
modern wing
Howdy everyone -- I'll be just lurking during the call if that's allright 😃
idle owl
@modern wing That's perfect 😃
fluid helm
Text only for me today!
idle owl
We're still in another meeting - so we're going to be a few minutes late.
fluid helm
Happy new year everyone, not been on here since the start of Jan.
marble hornet
I'm lurking
gilded cradle
I'm lurking too
pastel panther
@idle owl I can't make it today; if someone can read my notes, that would be great
fluid helm
I know we have micropython on the micro:bit but will CircuitPython ever come to the micro:bit? there may be no need but was just wondering
tulip sleet
@tall yacht it would require incredible trimming to make it fit
fluid helm
Yeah, i've noticed that a lot of add ons skip micropython due to the size limits. it's hard to fit their libraries on
raven canopy
Had a day_job call. Should be back in a few...
slender iron
anyone lurking but haven't let us know?
fluid helm
i'll be able to do voice now btw, got a working mic
slender iron
kk
notes doc is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14lsAkhJql6-TrnJUBMyj5CPC2iu-hz2ry3HFqY2VHyo/edit#
pastel panther
Have a good day everyone! 👋 Viva #circuitpython-dev2019!
fluid helm
Yay for BLE!
gilded cradle
I'm lurking
raven canopy
back
slender iron
@meager fog hug reports and status updates we can read later?
raven canopy
- @Takaklas for, I think, their first contribution with a PR to the LSM303 library.
- Just a group hug beyond that!
meager fog
hiya current status is more wifi and displayio testing - grand central is shipping
hugz to @idle owl for helping with getting guide done!
my audio's not working so can't listen/speak
prime flower
(was talkin to ladyada - no hugz this week)
stuck elbow
thanks to @tulip sleet and @solar whale for help with nrf52 feathers and to @meager fog and @slender iron for work on displayio
errant grail
@idle owl 🦅 !
raven canopy
Last Week:
- Adabot:
- Added Blinka to PyPi download stats. How did I miss that?
- Added total PyPi download stats, and re-fotmatted to a Markdown table.
- Catgeorized "needs release, new commits" by time elapsed since the oldest-new-commit.
- FrequencyIn:
- Changed the event action from RETRIGGER to COUNT. This helps fold @notro's counter in. Working out timing relations with the reference and capture TCs (overflow, resolution, etc).
This Week:
- FrequencyIn
prime flower
Last Week:
- Not much circuitpython, but some python goin' on, workin on other adafruit things.
- Updated the #help-with-wippersnapper-and-adafruitio Python Client to include the Dark Sky Weather API
integration (for IO Plus users!)..API HTTP and MQTT examples added - Adafruit IO Project with the Ruiz Bros that'll go live this week :)
This Week: - going back to working on LoRa & circuitpython things
marble hornet
Congrats!
stuck elbow
no progress on the TextMode library, maybe I can do something this week, started work on a 2xanalog joystick shield for controlling robots
slender iron
@stuck elbow see this? https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_Display_Text/
stuck elbow
@slender iron not yet, I saw some issues reported on github, but didn't dig any deeper yet
slender iron
kk
raven canopy
day_job is disruptive today. gotta run. if I can't make it back, have a great day everyone!
slender iron
you too @raven canopy
prime flower
I'll write one this afternoon @slender iron
solar whale
will next weeks meeting be on Monday?
gusty kiln
(cool, i'll give it a shot. have a few paragraphs worth of thoughts anyhow.)
marble hornet
where can we see what people have written before?
marble hornet
thanks!
tulip sleet
links in there
meager fog
back
prime flower
👋
fluid helm
marble hornet
thanks !
modern wing
thank you 😃
gilded cradle
Thanks
meager fog
@solar whale heya yeah - this is for a 'hardwired' board like the argon
solar whale
@meager fog OK -- I hope it works - let me know if not...
fluid helm
Is there any major core stuff coming up in 4.0 that's wortha adding to edublocks? @slender iron
solar whale
Np -- its real easy to set up
tulip sleet
meager fog
@solar whale @ruby atlas id like to get into socket implementation and then requests for URL fetching
so you can have it more like CPython
@slender iron i have a question on how to do that
because there's import weirdness i think
marble hornet
How do I update my fork to match the master cp repo?
solar whale
git pull
git pull --rebase upstream master
git push --force-with-lease origin master```
marble hornet
thnx
trying....
fatal: 'upstream' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
Jonahs-MacBook-Pro:circuitpython jonahym$ ```you need to add another remote, usually named either upstream or adafruit
git remote add adafruit https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython
scott recommends using adafruit rather than upstream, since you might have multiple remotes. I had to break my muscle memory, but have switched over.
marble hornet
awesome thanks! and noted! this remote is new to me
(resists making pirkey / remote pun)
is blob the non-sun mirosystems bwos?
in:
and being serious:
what is the sh module? in the build_too_info.py tool
slender iron
it makes it easy to run shell commands
solar basin
@slender iron is there some way I can be of help in displayio development? I'm new to Python and the C code behind it isn't immediately obvious, but I'd be willing to learn if I can be of help there. I also have a Feather M4 Express with a 2.4" TFT FeatherWing so I could do some testing if that is helpful.
marble hornet
Use make V=1, make V=2 or set BUILD_VERBOSE similarly in your environment to increase build verbosity.
make: *** No rule to make target `peripherals/samd/clocks.c', needed by `build-metro_m4_express/genhdr/qstr.i.last'. Stop.
Jonahs-MacBook-Pro:atmel-samd jonahym$ ```just cloned and submoduleded
solar whale
@marble hornet try git submodule sync then redo the git submodule update --init --recursive
slender iron
@solar basin that would be cool! its a bit tricky to get going but help on the python libs would be welcome
meager fog
@gilded cradle did i see you wanted to work on an RA8875 library 😃
umbral dagger
@meager fog Re: burning a bootloader guide. Not something I've had much need to do, so I'm sure that there are some others in here more qualified to write it.
meager fog
npnp
just trying to think of stuff you may be interested in
do you like floppy drives?
umbral dagger
You want a CP controlled floppy drive synthesizer?
main meteor
Who doesn't? I seriously considered learning how to program FPGAs to run a bunch of floppy drives.
umbral dagger
I do kind of miss that grinding noise ... SSD is just not the same acoustically.
marble hornet
Although I tried it
meager fog
a grand central could control many 😃
magic wing
Am I wrong for wishing we could have a C64 SID on a chip?
meager fog
and there's MIDI
magic wing
floppy drive synths would be cool, though
marble hornet
magic wing
can you simplify it down to just the steppers or do you really need the whole floppy?
pastel panther
@magic wing ask and ye shall receive
http://www.fpgasid.de/project-definition
@magic wing I hope you're OK with two SIDs on one chip
magic wing
@pastel panther oh the horror
pastel panther
I already sent an email to ask if they're willing to open source it but no dice so far
magic wing
Yeah, that would be a cool breakout board -- FPGASID + amp + connectors for speakers
pastel panther
To be fair they never responded so for all I know they're working on a push to github as we speak, but I doubt it. They have a lot of work put into it
solar whale
@marble hornet did you do make BOARD=metro_m4_express clean before final make?
I just ran make BOARD=metro_m4_express V=2 and it completed normally.
tough flax
Just got a big batch of WS2801 LED strands donated for the Magic Wheelchair. Before I go forward with the Raspberry Pi Python library, has anyone gotten these working using CircuitPython on M0/M4?
I know they're SPI based so it should be possible, just looking for the shortest path
solar whale
but wow - that V=2 produces a lot of output !!!
marble hornet
okay, i just re-cloned
and i am trying to make build_release_files.py
**run
and i am getting this error
meager fog
@tough flax there's a driver https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_WS2801
marble hornet
Use make V=1, make V=2 or set BUILD_VERBOSE similarly in your environment to increase build verbosity.
usage: mpy-tool.py [-h] [-d] [-f] [-q QSTR_HEADER]
[-mlongint-impl {none,longlong,mpz}] [-mmpz-dig-size N]
files [files ...]
mpy-tool.py: error: the following arguments are required: files
make: *** [build-pca10059/frozen_mpy.c] Error 2
make: *** Deleting file `build-pca10059/frozen_mpy.c'
Cannot find file ../ports/nrf/build-pca10059/firmware.uf2
for every single board and language
i have not edited the script
gilded cradle
@meager fog Possibly. I want to do some CP work, but have been slowly familiarizing myself with the codebase and the guides for working on it. Just came across the one for creating libraries and was reading it.
meager fog
@gilded cradle i'd love to help you with it if you'd like to try it out!
its a lot easier to write drivers in circuitpy than arduino, i think
and i dont know when i'd get to the RA8875 driver on my ow
but with an M4 - could be fun to have a big display 😃
solar whale
@marble hornet is this a new clone -- you may have to make -C mpy-cross not sure
gilded cradle
Thanks. I will probably take a stab at it. I have all the datasheets for the RA8875 already, but feel I need to do some prerequisite reading first. 😃
Also I have a Feather M4 and a nice 5" display.
marble hornet
trying
meager fog
@gilded cradle sounds good, you can ping me on github when you need eyez 👀
marble hornet
okay, it is running
gilded cradle
For developing CP libraries, should they be developed against 4.0A5 or the latest stable?
idle owl
@gilded cradle You may run into bugs with the alpha release, but it'll have all the newest features we're working on. You'll eventually want to test it with both, but I think it's probably up to you. Simply be aware that if you run into an issue while testing with the alpha release, it might not be your library. At that point you can swap to the stable release and test it pretty easily. I've been doing my dev with the alpha.
gilded cradle
Thanks @idle owl
tough flax
@meager fog - thanks for the pointer!
exotic pumice
OwO I missed the C64 discussion
I've been thinking it would be cool to make a sid-based ipod
ruby atlas
@meager fog that would be awesome (socket, requests). Stupid busy day at work today. Just reading discord now.
pastel panther
<@&356864093652516868> I assume retroactively changing the tag/version for a prior release of a library is a bad idea? the 34x releases are a bit out of whack because they're going from 1.0.0 to 1.10 to 1.1.1 and PyPi of course sees 1.10 as > 1.1.1
I considered retconning 1.10 to 1.1.0 but I'm now thinking that it could cause issues. Perhaps I could just either re-release the latest as 1.10.1 or edit the tag.
Thoughts?
tulip sleet
@pastel panther I'd do 1.10.1, don't try to go backwards. or is 2.0.0 in order?? As someone said, there are a lot of numbers available...
pastel panther
2.0.0 isn't in order, at least not for this version as it was just a bugfix. 1.10.1 sounds fine
idle owl
Yes retroactively changing it does nothing
There's a whole process for this
I can explain it
pastel panther
👂
idle owl
Ok if you want to delete a release, you have to first edit it and delete all the assets. Then it lets you delete the release. Then delete the tag. Then create a new release with a new tag number (the proper one in order this time, oops) and put the same notes in it and call it good.
idle owl
blergh.
pastel panther
Dropped refs/stash@{0} (f86e558c74ecc740cd9aaf4bd275a9647c0b7aad)
PyPI upload failed.
failed to deploy
previously, yes. I then removed it and did 1.10.1
idle owl
Ok you didn't delete the tag.
pastel panther
baaahg
pastel panther
looks like it barfed again.
idle owl
@pastel panther I went through this so many times when I did all the PyPI stuff. No worries. It is a Process ™
Rerunning it once. If it fails, we do the delete/delete process one more time so it runs on the correct tag on the first try.
I've burned through an entire set of 0.0.x numbers on one lib trying to get it right.
well single digit anyway.
pastel panther
It just kicked off another build; did you do that or is it automagic?
pastel panther
weee
idle owl
That last failure was a glitch type failure. So I reran it.
pastel panther
looks like PyPi is happy:
https://pypi.org/project/adafruit-circuitpython-adxl34x/
🖐
idle owl
My CircuitPython2019 final post: https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/01/14/a-story-and-some-thoughts-from-kattni-for-circuitpython2019/ @slender iron
idle owl
@pastel panther Mike blogged it...
pastel panther
I don't see it? Am I going blind?
not a big deal; it's in the notes and I posted it here so I imagine interested folks have seen it
tulip sleet
it's in process
idle owl
The scheduler on Wordpress didn't do the right scheduling. Should be coming right up!
It was scheduled for a couple of hours ago 😉
tulip sleet
@pastel panther ^^ https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/01/14/siddaciouss-take-on-circuitpython2019-circuitpython-adafruit-adafruit/
pastel panther
Yay! Thanks everyone!
tulip sleet
tnx @idle owl for following up with Mike
idle owl
@tulip sleet Np!
magic wing
@pastel panther and @idle owl In the adafruit-github-feed channel I'm seeing the announcement for 1.1.1 at 2.17pm and then for 1.10.1 at 3:10pm. Is that what the latest number is supposed to be or is the feed behind?
magic wing
yeah I was following the discussion I just wasn't sure what the latest version was supposed to be at the end
Sometimes I wish that versioning labels added the zeros so they were easily sortable by text tools
cinder dune
I have a quick question. So in place of using a swtich statement, which python does not have, I'm using a dictionary. My dictionary has this format:
myDict = {
1 : '(i,0,0)'
2 : '(0,i,0)'
3 : '(0,0,i)'
4 : '(i,i,0)'
5 : '(0,i,i)'
6 : '(i,0,i)'
7 : '(i,i,i)'
}
My question is can use it like this:
num=randint(1,7)
pixels[0:150] = [myDict.get(num)] * 150
I tested this in an interpreter and it returned the tuple with the quotes
Without the quotes python expectedly gives an error about i not being defined
If anyone has any tip they'd be much appreciated
I can probably use strip() to remove the quotes but I'd need some guidance because I can't get it working in my interpreter
waxen ermine
@cinder dune You should be able to use the tuples themselves in the dictionary. Is there a reason you're using strings?
cinder dune
Because i is not defined
I don't define it until the for loop
And this needs to work across for loops
waxen ermine
You can redefine the myDict in every iteration of the loop (assuming i is the iterated value)
cinder dune
I feel like there is a way where I could only define it once lol but I guess that would require a function with multiple arguments
One for the key I'm getting and one for i
waxen ermine
That's an option, sure. Define seven functions that take i as the parameter, then put those seven functions in the dictionary
cinder dune
Oh I was thinking a function with just the single dictionary
Two arguments: i and the key
😃
Wouldn't be that hard
slender iron
thanks @idle owl will read it once I'm through this code work
waxen ermine
Sure, but it may be faster to have seven functions stored in a dictionary.
Caveat: I'm new here, and I haven't explored all of Circuit Python, so my next suggestion may not work:
You could even (shudder) build it with lambda expressions (assuming CP can handle them)
idle owl
CP supports lambdas.
waxen ermine
Great. Ugly, but great : )
slender iron
I recommend using if/elif where a switch/case would be. dictionary of functions is much more advanced
cinder dune
Yeah....
I think I'm going to do that
I have everything writtern
*written
But python doesn't like keys that are integers in dictionaries
at least in my solution
waxen ermine
That's strange. I haven't heard of Python griping about integers as keys. Is it throwing an error?
cinder dune
2 : (0,0,i)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
That's inside the dictionary definition?
waxen ermine
Add a comma to the end of the line
cinder dune
Oh my goodness lol
Okay, I'm dumb
But also that did not do what I thought it would lol
Like with the lights
waxen ermine
I doubt that. Python is very good at doing what you tell it to, not what you want it to do : )
What were you expecting and what did you get?
cinder dune
I have a fade animation thing that runs through for loops and brightens every other light and then does the ones that aren't lit
I had just been doing a color for the first set to come and a color for the last set
I was trying to make it random
But this makes the lights flicker, which makes sense sense it radomizes the incremented value of i in the tuple
If you can follow that explanation I commend you lol
waxen ermine
I think I see what you're running into. You are setting all 150 lights in a loop, right?
waxen ermine
right: pixels[0:150] was in your original question
cinder dune
import neopixel
import board
from random import randint
num_pixels = 150
ORDER = neopixel.GRB
pixels = neopixel.NeoPixel(board.D18, 150, brightness=1, auto_write=False, pixel_order = ORDER)
def randColor(i):
num = randint(1,7)
myDict = {
1 : (i,0,0),
2 : (0,i,0),
3 : (0,0,i),
4 : (i,i,0),
5 : (0,i,i),
6 : (i,0,i),
7 : (i,i,i)
}
return myDict.get(num)
def fade():
for i in range(251):
pixels[1::2] = [randColor(i)] * 75
pixels.show()
for i in range(251):
pixels[::2] = [randColor(i)] * 75
pixels.show()
for i in reversed(list(range(251))):
pixels[1::2] = [randColor(i)] * 75
pixels.show()
for i in reversed(list(range(251))):
pixels[::2] = [randColor(i)] * 75
pixels.show()
def Main():
try:
while True:
fade()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
for i in reversed(list(range(251))):
pixels[0:150] = [(0,0,0)] * 150
pixels.show()
Main()
I'm using slicing to select every other pixel
And light it
waxen ermine
Aha. I think I see it.
You're using i as the index of each for loop, and you're calling randColor with i as the parameter
cinder dune
I see why I got the behavior I did
I just am not sure how to go about getting the behavior I want
And yes
slender iron
@tulip sleet got the subclassing working 😃
waxen ermine
hold on, that's not what I was thinking was the error.
waxen ermine
You want to pick a random color, assign that to every other pixel, fading from black to the color, then pick another color and fade the rest of the pixels that color?
Then pick a color before each for loop
cinder dune
Oh, that would work better I guess
I want every pixel to be different than the pixel before it
Lol, I just got these the other day and now I'm trying to do this
I'm sorry 😃
waxen ermine
Hey, that's the fun of it, right?
cinder dune
Right
waxen ermine
Not an actual color, because you are using the for loops to fill out the tuple
tulip sleet
@slender iron re subclassing Yay!
inland tusk
where do I find the current list of python libraries
slender iron
https://circuitpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/docs/drivers.html has a pretty good list
tough flax
Got the WS2401 leds working with python on pi. That (non CP) library is a bit out of date so I’m going to try the CP driver with Blinka(?). Or I’ll update the api in the lib to match the dotstar lib
tough flax
We had 12 strands of 84 leds donated to the magic wheelchair project. So glad we can make them work!
slender iron
@ruby atlas what issue did you have with subclassing and pixelbuf?
idle owl
@inland tusk https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_Bundle/blob/master/circuitpython_library_list.md
That list is updated nightly.
inland tusk
@idle owl thank you very much for the info
idle owl
You're welcome!
terse kayak
good catch, I think I updated it correctly now to remove the {}
slender iron
@terse kayak thats true but I meant the -
terse kayak
fixed ... I will self review better in the future .. was thinking it was just a quick thing and now on version 4 😳
clear halo
Zoltan has been experimenting with fast font rendering in MicroPython using a C module for the heavy lifting; it may also be of some use to you folks? @slender iron I know this topic is close to your heart... :)
https://forum.micropython.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=5815&p=33342
idle owl
@terse kayak No worries! That's what reviews are for. We're all in this together. 😃
gilded cradle
I have a question about creating the RA8875 driver. Should it be a subset of Adafruit_CircuitPython_RGB_Display or its own package?
solar basin
@slender iron where should I start? I assume at the very least I'll need to get a development version of CP running?
meager fog
@gilded cradle hihi
gilded cradle
Hi
meager fog
Adafruit_CircuitPython_RA8875 should do it 😃
gilded cradle
Thanks
ruby atlas
@slender iron non-specific crashing of overridden methods. I didn't spend any time with a debuger. I tried it. It crashed. I moved on.
meager fog
@solar whale wanna try requests?
slender iron
@clear halo thanks for the link! will look now
@solar basin what displays and boards do you have? I may be able to give you a build initially
@ruby atlas ok, it may be worth another shot. I'm fixing an issue with subclassing a class that takes kwargs into the native make_new
meager fog
@solar whale ok i ripped out the old URL stuff
requests is a tiny bit slower, cause it does multiple writes, but worth the nicer interface - and of course you can POST, send headers, etc.
slender iron
nice job @meager fog
meager fog
~ yay ~
its a party
i think we can POST to adafruit.io feeds properly now with the built in requests header thingy
pastel panther
Oh goodie, I was going to work on that but I guess I don't have to!
or is it a different lib from the esp at control lib? Either way, yay proper POST with auth headers!
umbral dagger
@meager fog Looks fun, yes.
solar whale
@meager fog I'll be happy to try requests - I don't see anythin new in the repo - is it in your local repo?
oh yeah - I see it there --- I'll grab it and try it out later today - may not be until this evening 😦
plucky flint
Hi folks... a quick heads up... I just hit the big green "release" button for the bugfix Mu 1.0.2 (http://madewith.mu/mu/users/2019/01/15/happy-mu-year-2019.html). Many thanks for the contributions from folks in this neck of the woods. As always, comments and suggestions most welcome. Hopefully, next stop will be 1.1 (with NEW features). 😃 🐮 ❤ 
ruby atlas
@slender iron let me know what branch to rebase from, or when to merge from master.
stuck elbow
https://hackaday.io/list/163331-circuitpython <-- there is a new list of projects
prime flower
@plucky flint ahhh you merged in the particle with pr I submitted, works gr8
plucky flint
@prime flower thanks for the contribution..! 😃
prime flower
thanks for makin' mu!
plucky flint
We are the Mu makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;—
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale Mu gleams:
Yet we are the Mu'vers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
(sorry) 😛
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solar basin
@slender iron right now, I just have a Feather M4 Express and a 2.4" TFT FeatherWing (ILI9341 + STMPE610).
tidal kiln
@slender iron some feedback on syntax resulting from using separate classes for enum like things:
https://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=145928#p722836
@tulip sleet you might be interested also
i know there are Reasons© for this, so just passing on user's perspective
meager fog
@solar whale yah i just need to lint and merge, you can then change your post example
@tidal kiln hihi could you help me with some of the mini guide fixes you emailed about
im swamped today :/
tidal kiln
sure. which ones?
tidal kiln
yep. see it. sure. np.
slender iron
@solar basin cool. I have that here I think. I'll get you a build
@ruby atlas I don't want to block your change on it
we can always update it later
will look at it all this morning
tidal kiln
@meager fog for i2s - use arduino I2S or adafruit ZeroI2S?
slender iron
someone want to approve https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/pull/1471?
lone sandal
meager fog
@slender iron this is for per-lang folders?
slender iron
ya
slender iron
ya, might as well
travis won't actually test it until its merged
since we don't save PR artifacts
slender iron
thanks! I'll keep an eye on it
idle owl
@gilded cradle I can create a repo for you to fork so it's ready for you when you're ready to PR if you'd like. Did the cookiecutter stuff in the Creating and Sharing a Library guide make sense and work for you?
gilded cradle
Yes kattni. I put up a repo already on my github, but can remove it and fork if that's easier.
idle owl
You'll eventually need to PR to our repo so it might be easier to fork it now instead of dealing with it later in the process
gilded cradle
Ok, sounds good.
idle owl
Ok give me a few minutes 😃
gilded cradle
Will do. Thanks
idle owl
@gilded cradle Adafruit_CircuitPython_RA8875 is accurate?
gilded cradle
yes
idle owl
Thanks!
@gilded cradle https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_RA8875 Here you go! One note: when you fork it and clone it locally, make sure you delete the current README.md, because it will default to that one which will have no contents, over the README.rst that comes with cookiecutter.
Thanks for doing this!
gilded cradle
Ok. Thanks.
Ok, got it forked, cloned, removed README and pushed previous work back up. Not ready for a PR yet though. 😃
idle owl
Excellent! That's totally fine! It's there when you're ready 😃
gilded cradle
Sounds good. Thanks
idle owl
@raven canopy Thank you so much!!! It was over 100 when I last looked. Library has new commits since last release within the last month. - 57
Trying to update the Library issue and failing. Two different browsers, same thing, it simply won't update. I've run into this before but usually it starts working after a couple of tries. Bleh.
slender iron
we now have subfolders thanks to @terse kayak : https://adafruit-circuit-python.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html?prefix=bin/feather_m4_express/en_US/
idle owl
Nice!
idle owl
Trying to figure out how to file a Github bug..... TONS of info on filing an issue on a repo.... Not so much on filing an issue with GitHub itself. 😆
Found a support email finally.
ruby atlas
@slender iron depending on the changes, it will make my code cleaner and faster. Especially if it's easily possibly to call a python method from C base classes. But as you say, if what's there so far passes review, we just need to figure out how we want to structure the testing versions of the _pixelbuf based neopixel.py and adafruit_dotstar.py
slender iron
what are the options?
@solar basin I have a build for when you are around. my featherwing display isn't working but the spi traffic looks ok
ruby atlas
What I’ve done so far is just have a new repo that holds pypixelbuf, and the other two pixelbuf compatible libraries . Not sure the name is even relevant anymore as it has rgbled in the name 😃
ruby atlas
I was wondering if we should have new repos, or use new branches for the _pixelbuf supporting ones and freeze into circuitpython where appropriate.
raven canopy
@idle owl it was at 97 when I started. I didn't even realize I did 40. 😆 I can hit a few more later.
meager fog
@umbral dagger eluuu
@umbral dagger dano's working on a solenoid xylobot
do you want to help out with the MIDI code
slender iron
@ruby atlas I'd just add a pixelbuf library and update the existing neopixel and dotstar to use it
umbral dagger
@meager fog Sure, That should be straight forward,
t's jusWe already have code to parse MIDI events/files. It's just different output.
I'm tied up with HackSpace for another day, likely, but time to chat is fine in the meanwhile.
solar basin
@slender iron whenever you're ready, I'm in and out of meetings today, but I'll have my laptop with me
meager fog
@umbral dagger ok np l8r!
solar whale
@meager fog requests is working great - I have a working post example
tough flax
@idle owl - I hate to be the Git newbie again.. I'm trying to reset my fork of adafruit/circuitpython so that I can make some changes to the HID stuff @tulip sleet and I are working on. So I want to rebase to adafruit/master and drop all my changes (there aren't any). I followed these directions and it seems to have worked from the command line. However, when I look at my fork on the web, it says I am 590 commits behind. What am I missing? https://gist.github.com/ravibhure/a7e0918ff4937c9ea1c456698dcd58aa
idle owl
Did you push to your fork when you were done? git push your_remote_name master
solar whale
these is the magic incantation I use to “rebase” fork — bring into line with adafruit master git pull git pull --rebase upstream master git push --force-with-lease origin master
tough flax
root@DESKTOP-QK2QQSA:~/circuitpython# git pull
You are not currently on a branch.
Please specify which branch you want to merge with.
See git-pull(1) for details.
git pull <remote> <branch>
Something is wrong
solar whale
probaby needd to git checkout master
tough flax
root@DESKTOP-QK2QQSA:~/circuitpython# git checkout master
error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git.
I should start over with a new clone
idle owl
push shouldn't want origin/master.
tough flax
root@DESKTOP-QK2QQSA:~/circuitpython# git status
HEAD detached at origin/master
nothing to commit, working tree clean
Never seen that before
slender iron
that means you are at the state of adafruit
tough flax
"Head detached"? Sounds painful
slender iron
it means you don't have a local branch
so git checkout -b <name related to what you are going to do>
tough flax
Ok, I've never not been on a branch - it made everything act wonky
slender iron
what do you mean by everything?
tough flax
root@DESKTOP-QK2QQSA:~/circuitpython# git checkout -b hid_joystick
Switched to a new branch 'hid_joystick'
root@DESKTOP-QK2QQSA:~/circuitpython# git push
fatal: The current branch hid_joystick has no upstream branch.
To push the current branch and set the remote as upstream, use
git push --set-upstream origin hid_joystick
Stuff like that
idle owl
Still should be able to checkout master I would think....
tough flax
I'm going to start a new clone and try this again - I think it's hosed
idle owl
I mean, that's what I would do. But I also try to avoid rebasing when I can, so I take the long way round.
tough flax
Do you create new forks?
idle owl
No
Unless it really hosed the fork too somehow
but usually I hose things locally when something like this happens, so same fork is fine
tough flax
Starting over
idle owl
But deleting and reforking is also an option if you really want to burn the place to the ground.
but you'll lose any remote work
so be careful with that one if you do it
tough flax
I'm good with that
Got it! Ok, the default branch for my fork was set to 3.x
which made a cluster
it's better now - thank you 😃
idle owl
You did all the work there 😃
idle owl
Great!
tulip sleet
@slender iron looked over the Shape + subclass PR - looks great! One q, how would I typecheck an incoming arg to make sure it was, say, a Shape or a subclass of Shape? Do I use mp_instance_cast_to_native_base() and that returns mp_obj_null or NULL or something if it can't cast?
slender iron
correct. it returns MP_OBJ_NULL if its unable to
tulip sleet
ok, that should be perfect. Approve and merge shortly and then I'll try to use it!
slender iron
great!
tulip sleet
i don't see any issues and you cleaned up a few constructors so they can use kwd args, which is great - excellent work!!
slender iron
ya, some of the arg checks were bad
slender iron
it was a good opportunity to go over them
tulip sleet
there were actually fewer than I thought
ruby atlas
nice
slender iron
😃
ruby atlas
if i can get away from work for a few minutes i'll look too!
also at your PR comments
slender iron
k cool!
ruby atlas
unless you can do this kubernetes configmap for me, then update the postgis deployment to mount that configmap entry as files in a specific dir so that postgis has an extension enabled? 😃
slender iron
you'll be much faster at it
raven canopy
i can spell kubernetes. only because you typed it first though... 😄
ruby atlas
I wasn't aware it was an ancient greek word.
raven canopy
i imagine its something like "net of ghoulish spiders". well, that may be biased towards my limited understanding of the modern kubernetes. 🕸
ruby atlas
from Ancient Greek κυβερνήτης (kubernḗtēs, “captain, steersman”), also appears in the New Testament. [1]
tulip sleet
@idle owl The Debouncer library isn't pypi'd yet. I submitted a simple PR to fix the travis build but I didn't see that it's missing a chunk of other stuff. Is this in your queue?
idle owl
Not yet. But I was messaging you. The hyphen isn't needed until there are multiple providers. So I'm not sure that's the issue with Travis.
tulip sleet
it was complaining about "api_key"
idle owl
Totally unrelated
I have to generate that and add it to the Travis CI settings
I can do that now
tulip sleet
🤷 i am behind on these things.
idle owl
@tulip sleet Added. It should run successfully now. Your PR isn't necessary. That'll get dealt with when I deploy it to PyPI.
tulip sleet
k, I'll close it.
idle owl
tulip sleet
now it's happy
empty tartan
Question... I've been looking to use BLE on the nRF52840 with CircuitPython, but for the life of me can find no good info on it (Have CP up and running on the board already). Perhaps my google-foo is failing, but not finding anything of substance. I do know that it should be supported through ubluepy, however, this isn't included in the latest adafruit 4.x bundle. Anyone have any pointers?
tulip sleet
@empty tartan that's because it's being worked on right now (like, literally, I'm working on it at this moment). The latest master has an initial API, and also see https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_BLE. Warning: API and examples will change, but we'd love it if you try things out
but the latter includes Device, which you should ignore for now.
ubluepy has gone away and is being replaced with bleio.
empty tartan
Haha... Ok, well that explains it. I'll take a look at those links. We have an nRF52 device and want to use CP running on a dev-board to do some latency testing. I'll dig into it more tomorrow morning. Thanks for the quick feedback!
meager warren
fyi - I finally got the MDK nRF52840 USB Dongle to usefully run CircuitPython last night https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/pull/1470 😃
slender iron
thanks @meager warren will look now
fluid cape
Hello guys, I am kinda new here. My name is Hendra, I am one of the language contributor for Bahasa Indonesia. I am still learning to understand how the github work (pull, merge, commit, etc), so I am sorry if I am creating a weird pull request on the repo🙏
fluid cape
Thanks @idle owl 😊
raven canopy
@fluid cape git/github give us all head-scratching moments. and i'll second...you did great. welcome, and thanks for the contribution! 👋
fluid cape
@raven canopy thank you. It still WiP, I will try to finish it by the end of the month
raven canopy
WIP...its where most of my projects live. 😆
exotic pumice
does a yellow pulsing neopixel on a feather mean undercurrent?
raven canopy
@exotic pumice running circuitpython? or just the bootloader?
exotic pumice
I can't remember what it's running tbh
raven canopy
haha. if circuitpython: pulsing YELLOW: Circuit Python is in safe mode: it crashed and restarted
exotic pumice
yeah it's circuitpython 4.0.0 maybe that's why
alpha 3
I should update it while I'm here
oh it's running my broken dap thing
solar whale
He's doing it again....
raven canopy
🙃
only like 10 or so left...i think.
i finally ran across one that requires thought for the release notes.
idle owl
I'd say have a strokey-beard meeting but... no beards allowed for you. So no meetings of that sort either.
umbral dagger
Wait! Wut? No beards?!
idle owl
You can be as beardy as you want.
solar basin
As promised, here's my image conversion tool: https://image-converter.stackblitz.io/
Here's the code: https://stackblitz.com/edit/image-converter
thick tundra
Does anyone know if we can have multiple declarations for the same CPU pin in the pins.c?
tulip sleet
do you mean multiple names for the same pin? Yes, we do that all the time
i can find an example
thick tundra
Yeah, i thought so. No example needed
thick tundra
Just wanted to check i wasn't being dumb before submitting that
tulip sleet
@thick tundra see my review - good PR, just minor style fixup requested
@thick tundra Great! will approve after Travis finishes
solar basin
Ahh man! I've been paying for that! ^
thick tundra
Well my students have been looking out for you then!
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meager fog
@solar whale hrm im having problems getting compiled ESP32 AT to work
using their IDF and firmware
can you send me your sdkconfig
oh blah RTS/CTS are fixed, they cant be changed - oi
solar whale
@meager fog here is the sdkconfig I used - let me know if yo uwant me to try something.
marble hornet
can interpreter (the supervisor? what's teh "right" name?) store info in flash about how to boot up next? or info for itself in the future?
solar whale
@marble hornet as far as i am aware, you can only write-enable the flash in boot.py - then you can write to it but it will b read-only as a mass stoarge device. - you can't have masss storage (CIRCUITPY) be writable and and write from CP at the same time. If yo just have a few values to store (<8K) you can use the NVM -- it will remain after boot/power cycle.
marble hornet
i should have specied, from c code
solar whale
ah -- sorry - you would probably have to create a special section of the flash -- like the nvm -- just guessing.
how much information do you need to store?
why not use NVM?
marble hornet
you know the svm module i'm VERY SLOWLY learning c to make?
solar whale
ah - NVM is not in all builds ...
solar whale
what is that?
marble hornet
static volatile memory, saved bytes between soft reboots, but not resets. it will be used ot replace unmounting from storage
the number of bytes of ram to set aside needs to be stored
i'll find the issue
**scratch volatile memory
solar whale
try these https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/tree/master/shared-bindings/storage https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/tree/master/ports/atmel-samd/common-hal/nvm
marble hornet
thanks
marble hornet
how do i include displayio in an m4 build ?
tulip sleet
@marble hornet it should be included already
marble hornet
hrmmm i just built it, i couldn't import displayio
tulip sleet
from master?
tulip sleet
hmm, I thought it was included, but maybe not in general, it probably should be
i think we'll include it in all builds eventually - it was special-cased for hallowing and pyportal initiallly
thanks for pointing that out
marble hornet
okay, so that line isn;t working . can you show how to include it correctly? (i'll also reclone just in case
)
like does it go in .mk?
>>> import displayio
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: no module named 'displayio'```@marble hornet it should be in mpconfigboard.h like the hallowing
marble hornet
building...
inner tree
Hi all, I just got an SGP30 and hooked it up to a Circuit Playground Express. I'm trying to follow the python example and I'm running into the same "SDA or SCL needs a pull" error. From the discussion above, is this an issue with the library, or do I need to actually put some sort of resistor?
tidal kiln
how are you connecting it to the CPX?
inner tree
I followed the wiring diagram from here: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-sgp30-gas-tvoc-eco2-mox-sensor/circuitpython-wiring-test#circuitpython-microcontroller-wiring-6-2
tidal kiln
can you post a photo of your actual connections to the CPX?
stuck elbow
those crocodile clips are not going to give you a good connection like that
tidal kiln
be very careful not to short the red/black clips
stuck elbow
and is it just me, or is the gnd shorted to 1v8?
I would add some wires to it and clip the clips on those wires
or at least pins
inner tree
K, I'll grab some wires and try it
tidal kiln
yah, i think using the gator clips on the sensor directly like that is going to be very tricky
inner tree
got it
empty tartan
@tulip sleet Thanks for the info yesterday - I am able to import bleio using build adafruit-circuitpython-pca10056-en_US-20190114-738e8f0 (actually running on BMD-340 devkit, but they were nice enough to keep all the pins and XTALs the same - we always target pca10056 without issue.) I tried running the scanner code but it returned an empty set, maybe I need to pull and build to see what's going on. I use Keil for work, so will have to get the GCC environment set up.
One question that I had yesterday which may also be related... Do I need to flash the softradio separately, or is it included in the build (looking through the build instructions, it appears to be part of the build)?
tidal kiln
are you able to solder?
@stuck elbow i've got a pygame question. you've used that a lot i think?
stuck elbow
shoot
tidal kiln
audio related - how to generate simple pure tones?
generate and play - like what's the way to do play_tone(440)
tribal terrace
On a high level what you do is take samples at regular intervals of a sine wave that oscillates with 440Hz and feed those values to the DAC
river quest
here's a sneak peak of our CircuitPython powered IoT display... this live-updates when we get a star on on the CircuitPython repo' ....
raven canopy
@tidal kiln sound array looks like what you're looking for? https://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/sndarray.html
tidal kiln
@raven canopy yep. also googled this:
https://gist.github.com/ohsqueezy/6540433
but surprised it requires that much code. wondering if there's something more simple/builtin for pure tones
stuck elbow
@tidal kiln I don't think you can easily do that with pygame, it's more made with the idea of playing ready files
tidal kiln
@stuck elbow ok. thanks. that's the impression i was getting.
slender iron
@tidal kiln soundgen is something I'd love to see in circuitpython
https://circuitpython.readthedocs.io/en/3.x/shared-bindings/audioio/RawSample.html has a pure sine example
tidal kiln
@slender iron fwiw - use case is rpi + crickit w/ python
slender iron
ah, I don't know how to play buffers on cpython
tidal kiln
it's kind of an outlier. the other things like servo, etc. have CP libs that can be used and make things nice and easy, like servo.angle = 90. but audio is just an i2s amp. it's supported in the OS, but trying to find a nice easy way to use it from python....
raven canopy
I imagine all the game roms are sample based, but maybe there are some overzealous romers that went full chip tune?
marble hornet
@slender iron displayio isn;t compiled into the alpha on the metro m4
solar whale
oooh
solar whale
😃
marble hornet
that was meant for my robotics chat !!! SORRY!
solar whale
no problem -- I though my dog was speaking to me 😉
marble hornet
your dog just wants you to think i typed that
tidal kiln
"greetings professor falken..."
marble hornet
so i can;t get displayio to compile in
<artificial>:(.text.run_background_tasks+0x2a8): undefined reference to `board_display_obj'
/var/folders/08/4sg6c7j12zqbxz6wtmh3ggrw0000gn/T//ccU2Ns7M.ltrans17.ltrans.o:<artificial>:(.text.run_background_tasks+0x2ac): more undefined references to `board_display_obj' follow
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [build-metro_m4_express/firmware.elf] Error 1
Jonahs-MacBook-Pro:atmel-samd jonahym$
i'm getting that error
marble hornet
it says it needs more resources, does it need more inclued in the mpconfig.h?
raven canopy
@tidal kiln seems similar to pygame as it requires NumPy outside of wav file usage: https://simpleaudio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
tidal kiln
"simple" 😃
solar whale
@marble hornet I've not tried to build it recently -- you may want to look at board.c file for the hallowwing. it has some displayio stuff in it.
marble hornet
trying..,.
pastel panther
anyone have tips for debugging a missing CIRCUITPY drive on raspbian?
solar whale
check output of dmesg
marble hornet
tificial>:(.text.run_background_tasks+0x2ac): more undefined references to `board_display_obj' follow
slender iron
@marble hornet its only built into the hallowing
solar whale
@marble hornet just for check - can you build the hallowing image
slender iron
did you do a clean after adding the CIRCUITPY_DISPLAYIO define to make sure it picked up new source files
look in the board.c for hallowing as well
pastel panther
I have no idea how to cut and paste, but dmesg looks promising, it sees the metro and even talks about mass storage and attaching a removable disk. let me check this mount point
hmm. not a mount point, a device
solar whale
what does df show after plugging in the board
marble hornet
i'll try it
pastel panther
no CIRCUITPY, misc/dev, /run,/boot
solar whale
mine just mounts to /media/pi/CIRCUITPY -- pops up file manager window --
pastel panther
I had to manually mount it
my laptop is having its battery replaced so I'm giving an RPi a run for its money as a desktop
solar whale
don't get your hopes up 😉 what kind of pi?
solar whale
it'll work fairly well, but it'll be really sluggish
pastel panther
heeey, I got a REPL 🎉
solar whale
what more can you need 😉
pastel panther
did the updates to the esp at library get merged? I would like to see if I can get this thing talking to IO
uses his own eyeballs to check
solar whale
not yet -- there are a bunch of new things that Limor has done -- added requests -- make is much simple to use
check her repo
pastel panther
are they still in her fork?
kk
just remembered I'm on an RPi; should probably close some of these chrome tabs
slender iron
anyone have a 2.4" featherwing and feather m4?
idle owl
Probably? I have all the FeatherWings, so presumably yes.
slender iron
k I have a build that will use the display
idle owl
Hey I even knew right where it was. Do you need testing?
slender iron
sure 😃
marble hornet
/var/folders/08/4sg6c7j12zqbxz6wtmh3ggrw0000gn/T//ccx0y9V2.ltrans17.ltrans.o:<artificial>:(.text.run_background_tasks+0x2ac): more undefined references to `board_display_obj' follow
slender iron
if you have cycles @meager fog has been filing bugs
inner tree
@stuck elbow @tidal kiln Thanks for the help! I soldered headers and used the clips from the CPX to the wires and the code works now!
slender iron
@marble hornet there is stuff you need in board.c
magic wing
@inner tree I had to do the same for a Flora project I was using. It was a powerful lesson for me (one in a series) of how important good ground connections can be.
inner tree
I was avoiding soldering as we're just trying to prototype something for my son's FIRST Robotics project
He's going to be mad when he gets home from school and finds out that I soldered the headers 😃
pastel panther
because he wanted to?
inner tree
yeah
He can solder the real wires from the sensor to the CPX though. All is not lost.
marble hornet
do i need to change pin defs ?
slender iron
you'll need to add the DISPLAY entry
tidal kiln
@inner tree as an option on the CPX side - you could use screws to attach the wires to the CPX pads. the holes are big enough. that way you wouldn't be soldering wires to the CPX in case you want to reuse it for something later.
inner tree
That's a great idea
pastel panther
I'm surprised there is no terminal block "shield" for the CPX
tidal kiln
dastels might have done something like that
pastel panther
adds to the pile of board ideas
tidal kiln
but i think that was to header pins. you're thinking something like this:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/2926
but CPX shaped?
pastel panther
yup
solar whale
@slender iron I have those
craggy harbor
I can’t find any info on getting the featherwing‘s buttons working. I haven’t used I2C yet so any help is appreciated!
Featherwing OLED*
(The Display works fine)
slender iron
@solar whale let me know if you want to test. beware there are lots of bugs
solar whale
sure
pastel panther
@craggy harbor aren't they just tied to gpio?
slender iron
displayio for feather m4 + 2.4" featherwing
idle owl
It loads! Well done! (I have no idea how to use displayio 😄 )
pastel panther
@craggy harbor from the guide page on pinouts:
Button A is #9 (note this is also used for the battery voltage divider so if you want to use both make sure you disable the pullup when you analog read, then turn on the pullup for button reads)
Button B is #6
Button C is #5
ya, I'm realizing I'm too on the critical path for it
craggy harbor
Ohh I see! A bit unfortunate since those are already used in my case 😄
slender iron
time to teach others 😃
craggy harbor
But oh well
idle owl
Probably better right now anyway, I'm in the middle of something else 😆
Still, step 2 works 😃
solar whale
@slender iron loaded and booted -- what should I do to test?
pastel panther
@craggy harbor I think there is a way to change the pins
craggy harbor
What’s the thing with the battery voltage divider?
tidal kiln
@craggy harbor careful then, one of them has a pullup
craggy harbor
@pastel panther that would be cool!
slender iron
@solar whale https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_Display_Text/blob/master/examples/pyportal.py
that is the most complex example so far
craggy harbor
@tidal kiln would that mean it „pulls up“ always, as long as the wing is attached?
pastel panther
@craggy harbor I think I spoke too soon. Some featherwings have jumpers you can cut but I don't see any one this one (having to look at pics)
tidal kiln
i don't think can easily be changed
pastel panther
I mean you could find the traces and cut them but that's probably more than you want to do
craggy harbor
@pastel panther okkkk
tidal kiln
@craggy harbor on the wing, the pin for button b is connected to 3.3V via a 100k resistor.
craggy harbor
@tidal kiln so as Long as I don’t push it, it won’t affect the functionality of the SPI devices that I control from that pin right?
tidal kiln
is it working ok now?
actually, wouldn't be too hard to move them. you could cut the trace between the headers and the secondary row. and then solder jumpers from there.
but i'd try to just not use those pins. what all is attached? why not use the dedicated SPI pins?
solar whale
@slender iron do yyou know offhand if PB21 is correct for the backlight for the feather m4 or do I need to change it ..
slender iron
you need to change it
solar whale
ok -- looking
craggy harbor
@solar whale well the chip selects etc. I already did a board layout etc so don’t want to change it now.
solar whale
@craggy harbor ?? not sure what you are referring to
@slender iron do I need to set backlight or can it be None -- its not wired up on the 2.4 TFT
slender iron
I think you can remove it from the example
solar whale
ok - will try
craggy harbor
Ups i wanted to mention @tidal kiln
tidal kiln
ah. you have some kind of custom PCB you've made up?
solar whale
fade up
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "pyportal.py", line 29, in <module>
ValueError: Group must have size at least 1
>>>
@slender iron do I need special fonts -- I cloned adafruit_bitmap_font and put it on the board
solar whale
ah -- ok -- nay ones you recomend -- jsut put at root or in adafruit_bitmap_font folder
slender iron
in the root I think
craggy harbor
@tidal kiln yup!
tidal kiln
do you want to use the buttons?
craggy harbor
@tidal kiln it would be cool but it’s not necessary 😊
The most important thing is that they just don’t interfere with my current setup (PCB).
I would be willing to e.g. just pull out the 5,6,9 pins from the shield if it’s necessary 😃
tidal kiln
that's one option. those are the buttons. just don't connect them down to the feather.
tidal kiln
time travel and use different pins 😃