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#circuitpython-dev
modern wing
raven canopy
although, in looking at some other translations, seems they went beyond the scope? We're not translating any Python keywords. 🤷
idle owl
Hmm.
raven canopy
i'm also thinking of how we can drop the unused stuff to make more room. e.g. esp8266 stuff.
tulip sleet
@solar whale or @gilded cradle have you tried an ESP8266 breakout with ESP_ATControl? I'm using the sample code in https://learn.adafruit.com/adding-a-wifi-co-processor-to-circuitpython-esp8266-esp32. (And updating some obsolete stuff in the learn guide. The point of this is to update some of the Learn Guide code.). When it switches baud rates to 115200 it loses sync. I don't have an ESP32 breakout handy. Did you already find this problem? Should I lower the baud rate?
solar whale
@tulip sleet I have used it a lot. Do you have the RTS pin connected?
tulip sleet
no, that wasn't in the guide: just RST
solar whale
It is needed for higher baud rates
tulip sleet
so the guide needs more revision (I already revised the ssid/password setting part)
ok, I'll read the code for which pins, unless you know aoff the bat
solar whale
Yes. It needs a lot. Can’t look now . I can check later.
tulip sleet
thanks, though, that's very helpful. The only point of this was to test the ujson -> json rename, but I may as well correct the guide.
solar whale
I can try to look at it tonight or tomorrow morning. Let me know if you find area that need attention
tulip sleet
@solar whale got it to work by turning of RTS. The example I was trying to change is seriously out of date, and not worth me fixing. The Guide did need some updating -- that was separate, so time not wasted. Thanks!
solar whale
@tulip sleet It looks like the guide still does not show the RTS connection - should I go ahead and add that (GPIO13 on the breakout) Is that what you added?
tulip sleet
i was using some other code (not in the guide) that specified RTS. I just took it away and it sort of worked. But you think it needs to be there for reliability?
None of the examples actually show RTS/CTS connected, though the commented-out ESP32 code specifies the pin
tulip sleet
I'm just chatting with limor, will ask her
tulip sleet
can you use the pin on the UART header as well? Is that wired to GPIO13?
tulip sleet
the upward pointing pins on the end that connect to an FTDI cable
tulip sleet
limor says she'd like to deprecate ATControl because it's too flaky
solar whale
She's the boss
tulip sleet
hah, pins 1 and 5 on the FTDI connector (lower right) aren't even connected. No wonder it didn't work. Anyway, don't need to bother about this now. SPI32 is the preferred solution. It was an experiment.
solar whale
I think it can be usefull for the special case of the argon -- but may not be worth the effort.
tulip sleet
ESP8266 is not a preferred solution going forward, I think esp due to newer TLS issues, etc.
I think the number of users is very low; we'll have our own hardware that's more suitable soon.
solar whale
right esp32 may be worth salvaging but only for the argon -- esp32spi is better for all other applications
ok with me to pull the plug -- there will be some dissapointment, but thats what hapeens on the cutting edge 😉
I do like the argon/esp32 with ESP_ATcontrol and may invest a bit more time in it -- actually I like @lime trellis method of putting micropython on the ESP32. the miniesptool is still useful and it gives users a tool to experiment with.
The same goes for putting micropython on an esp8266 then setting up a UART connection to it if you want to use it for say mqtt to Adafruit IO -- I have done that -- may be easier to support than ESP_ATcontorl.
as far as the particle argon goes, It was a fun way to get early nrf52840 support before the feather rf52840 came out. I think the argon is best used with the particle.io environment.
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gilded cradle
@tulip sleet I haven't had a chance to try out the ESP8266 WiFi Co-processor. Since it sounds like we're not working on this anymore, I won't bother implementing the WiFi Manager in it.
finite narwhal
@slender iron, a belated thanks for your help last Tue at 1:46 am.
gusty topaz
@solar whale did I read the comments above right?, is the WiFi ATControl for the Argon going to be deprecated? (I was about to make the switch tonight).
gusty topaz
@tulip sleet When you wrote "..we'll have our own hardware that's more suitable soon." above, were you referring to PyPortal? (Yes or No would suffice. No need to for more details if still kept under wraps).
solar whale
@gusty topaz I only know what the discussion indicated. I have no other information about the plans. Stay tuned.
prime flower
@idle owl If I'm only targeting CircuitPython Microcontrollers, should I remove the PyPi install info from the Adafruit CircuitPython Adafruit_IO readme?
Raspi users should be using the Adafruit IO Python library instead, which is set up with PyPi. Maybe add a note to that repo in the readme?
idle owl
@prime flower You can. But typically everything ends up on PyPI. I guess you can add it back in if the decision is made to put it on PyPI.
idle owl
@slender iron Any guessing on what type of exception this would throw? Needs to except a thing, not be bare. try: self._bg_sprite = displayio.TileGrid(background, pixel_shader=displayio.ColorConverter(), position=(0, 0)) except: self._bg_sprite = displayio.Sprite(background, pixel_shader=displayio.ColorConverter(), position=(0, 0))
You wrote the displayio code so I thought you might know off the top of your head.
slender iron
why are you try/excepting? Sprite was never stable so I'd rather give people reason to update
idle owl
I'm not, I'm deep linting Limor's code
try sprite and except an error that says "update"?
er wrong way
How would you rather it be written?
I can change it now, I'm working on getting it ready.
slender iron
probably easiest to just figure out the exception
I usually just try it in the REPL to see what is thrown
I don't know off the top of my head
idle owl
Ok.
Thanks
I was trying it in the REPL but it requires arguments that I was having trouble satisfying. That's why I asked. I'll see if I can figure it out though
tidal kiln
"deep linting" 😋
idle owl
It seemed fitting... mostly because I'm linting code I've never seen and also never used and also can't test. 😄
(Yes I have someone else testing it.)
prime flower
@solar whale thx for testing IO CircuitPython 😃
super useful as I plug away. Should I wait on you to do a code review before merging it into master?
solar whale
@prime flower my pleasure -- i'm learning a lot about the AIO API -- I'll go ahead and mar it reviewed -- I think it is more than ready for merge - nice job!
prime flower
thanks - it was a fun lib. to build out tbh. ive had a lot of eye-time with the IO python one
solar whale
This will be very useful -- just need to get more peolple using the esp32spi -- when the pyportal is avaialble I think this will be very popular!
prime flower
Soon, Soon 😃
I'm really happy with the work done on WiFi, IO on CircuitPython...excitin'!
solar whale
@meager fog and @gilded cradle have done a great job on it
and you've done a great job with AIO !
prime flower
thx
@solar whale you ever get a RuntimeError: ESP32 not responding?
Just got one from running a temperature get/send
solar whale
Only when first connection. Usually means a loose wire
are you on pyboard? or separate ESP32
solar whale
hmm not likey loose wire ! but yeah that is waht happens if you connect an ESP32 up incorrectly
prime flower
I can't accurately replicate it either, it crops up really really randomly
solar whale
It may be good to add some try/except cases to the examples do it can reset and retry -- like in the esp32spi examples
catch RuntimeError - report it , then do a wifi.reset() and continue
prime flower
solar whale
exactly
solar whale
I ran into some very infrequent errors whne running "cheerlights" for a long time. That fixed it.
solar whale
@prime flower I meant to suggest taht before the merge -- sorry - I forgot
prime flower
Yeah, tis OK, I'll open a PR
I feel that should be for examples like temperature, ones which have a loop
solar whale
yes -- only needed when looping
I'll be AFK -- tahtnks for all the work on this -- Have a great weekend!
prime flower
you too jerry, thanks for the test - enjoy!
raven canopy
@prime flower i put up a belated review on AIO. didn't notice that it was merged in the middle. 😆
prime flower
@raven canopy for the entire library, or that PR?
raven canopy
entire, but it was on that initial PR.
prime flower
just saw it, ok
prime flower
@raven canopy I made some of the requested changes, going AFK for a bit. Not sure why Sphinx is tossing that neopixel error when I added an import
raven canopy
kk. i'll take a look. i would guess its automock, but that's a guess. enjoy your AFK! 😄
prime flower
yeah, it was thrown by autodoc
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pastel panther
heya
I'm just doing a final test then going to push to my fork to update the PR. should be < 5 mins
meager fog
oki
pastel panther
hrm; have to fix a translation-related conflict
meager fog
what has displayio enabled tho
pastel panther
grand central
pastel panther
no; the conf for my screen was out of sync with the pp config which is why had R/B backwards. Otherwise it should be fine I think
pastel panther
ya
pastel panther
would you rather have one with debug or wait 5 minutes?
meager fog
it came up fine
ok now i need to make some 320x240 pix in various depths
16bit, 8 bit and...?
pastel panther
16bit/24 and 8 bit grayscale
pastel panther
ok
meager fog
gotta get cat pix
pastel panther
of course
pastel panther
no, I was figuring out reading in the palette when I ran out of time
it cheats for the grayscale by just using the index since it's palette is a ramp
pastel panther
in gimp I had to change the image mode from RGB to grayscale
do you want me to make something?
meager fog
no but i made something that doesnt display
plz try it:
16 bit color from adobe
im pretty sure im running yer firmware
take a look and/or send me a 16bit img
pastel panther
is it 565?
pastel panther
hmm
pastel panther
ya
pastel panther
tried both; I'll have to check the first but the most recent it doesn't like the header size
meager fog
i use adobe to generate 24 bit ones succesfully
pastel panther
that's good cause that would be a regression otherwise!
ah yea, photoshop/adobe uses non-microsofty header sizes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP_file_format#DIB_header_(bitmap_information_header)
and scott originally would throw unless the header size was microsofty so I followed his suit
and tested with GIMP because I don't have PS
main meteor
I can always give GraphicConverter a whirl.
pastel panther
the PS 565 should be relatively easy to fix, the 555 a bit harder, and then actual 8 bit color would mean having to load the palette and reference it which would take even more
main meteor
BMP is like PNG: a dozen different formats hiding under a blanket.
pastel panther
JPG too
main meteor
And TIFF...
pastel panther
everyone knows the way to fix a bad format/standard is to make another one 🙄
main meteor
And then make it a new incompatible variant of an existing format.
meager fog
@pastel panther id say fix the 565
pastel panther
ok
pastel panther
@meager fog try this with the PS 565
meager fog
lol
pastel panther
do you know of anything that's good at dumping image metadata? I've been poking at these bmps in a hex editor which works ok but I have to remember all the offsets or keep looking at wikipedia
pastel panther
sure
pastel panther
sure
meager fog
sure which 😄
pastel panther
noice; I was telling kattni that when I'm done with this I'm going to stick my huzzah32 onto the proto with my screen to make a bry-portal
pastel panther
🎉
meager fog
ok im going to pylint pyportal while you hack?
pastel panther
sure
pastel panther
awwe, thanks 😃
meager fog
this will save a toooon of space
and great for wifi - files are 30% smaller 😃
ok linting time
puts on lintin' pants
pastel panther
good luck, don't forget your towel
meager fog
i never forget a towel or my copy of linters guide to the galaxy
pastel panther
😃
meager fog
ping me if ya need me to check something - ill be in atom window
pastel panther
ok; I may have a time cap tonight because the wyf wants to watch IT
pastel panther
okie doke
solar basin
Disregard
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marble hornet
sure! let me get it
meager fog
cool then we'll try it out
meager fog
oki
marble hornet
and !
marble hornet
https://github.com/TG-Techie/pyportal_gui if you want to try the update 😃
meager fog
im going to try the zip
marble hornet
kk 😃
meager fog
ok got it working
nice!
i think on displayio youll be able to update fast since you wont have to redraw the squwares, just change their color
marble hornet
thank you, some of the improvements sped up the refresh. I've been having problem with porting to dispio so it may be a while. 🤔 . but if the two are not compatible it would be easier . there is an example in tg_gui/programs/examples
@meager fog did you find that the amg needed to be unplugged for the pyp to turn on ?
marble hornet
@river quest could i ask you to send me the cleaned up tricorder audio files ? please
gilded cradle
@idle owl, I have a question about the missing CP drivers
I noticed that a lot of the missing drivers are actually under the helpers folder. Is that a bug in the checker or should they be on the drivers page?
raven canopy
@gilded cradle i'm running the check now. just so i'm reading it right, you're saying a lot the ones listed in the check are actually on the drivers page?
gilded cradle
No, I'm saying that under the bundle, they are categorized as helpers
For instance miniesptool is a helper, but is listed as missing from the drivers page.
raven canopy
oh. yeah, that won't matter. adabot downloads the page content, then blanket checks for the RTD url:
if "https://circuitpython.readthedocs.io/projects" + repo_short_name + "/en/latest/" not in core_driver_page:
return fail_code
So should they be added to the drivers page as a helper?
raven canopy
yes. but the driver page doesn't cateorgize (atm) strictly as helper or driver. there is a helper section iirc (its only been a week since i looked 😄), but that doesn't mean all helpers are listed there.
gilded cradle
Ok, thanks. I wanted to add them, but was unsure if I should.
raven canopy
they need it. do you want the current list (as of 2 minutes ago)?
gilded cradle
Sure
raven canopy
CircuitPython drivers page missing driver - 27
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_AT86RF233
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_SK9822
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_MFRC630
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_CPython
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_TMP006
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_US100
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_GFX
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_PCD8544
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_miniesptool
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_RPLIDAR
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_Debouncer
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_BoardTest
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_ADT7410
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_L3GD20
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_LED_Animation
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_TestRepo
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_ST7735
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_ILI9341
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_MIDI
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_ESP_ATcontrol
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_BitbangIO
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_framebuf
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_VCNL4040
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_TinyLoRa
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_Touchscreen
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_VEML7700
* https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_Display_Text
Thanks. What about ones with missing RTD pages such as the ST7735 (due to having no releases)?
raven canopy
hmm. good point. obviously if they have no RTD, they won't work. we could maybe figure out how to exclude those. its done that way with another check...
gilded cradle
Yeah
raven canopy
hehe. actually, those extra 6 in my list are due to the fact that i used the -v flag to run only the core_driver_page check. which incidentally skips the check that would have forced it to ignore un-released repos. oopsies. 😆
gilded cradle
Ah
raven canopy
https://github.com/adafruit/adabot/blob/master/adabot/circuitpython_libraries.py#L523 which would trigger this https://github.com/adafruit/adabot/blob/master/adabot/circuitpython_libraries.py#L785
i might add validate_contents to an always run with -v. 🤔
gilded cradle
Yeah, that might work well
raven canopy
issue created. it'll get handled eventually. thanks for bringing that up so that it could stare me in the face @gilded cradle! 👓
gilded cradle
Thanks
raven canopy
i may be the only one that uses the -v option, but it still should be accurate
gilded cradle
No problem. I wanted to work on some repo level issues, but I just was running into a lot of questions.
raven canopy
questions are a good thing. especially when it comes to tooling. its supposed to help, not confuse further. 😄
gilded cradle
Yeah, just being relatively new here is part of it
raven canopy
heh. i've been here over a year. still feel new.
raven canopy
oh yeah. i'm table flipping on the Travis cron for adabot. it makes no sense, and i can't get a handle on the pass once, fail thrice cycle its on.
pastel panther
second time now I've just said 'screw it' and nuked my branch from orbit and re-applied the changes
pastel panther
puts the 're' in regression testing
idle owl
@gilded cradle I'm around if you have any more questions.
pastel panther
it's also possible I suck at git
gilded cradle
Thanks kattni, I think sommersoft answered it for now.
idle owl
Ok
river quest
hi hi @marble hornet which sounds?
idle owl
@gilded cradle Did you look into using your pixel_matrix lib with the 8x16? Did it not make sense and that's why it's essentially standalone?
marble hornet
Scanning and a button press if you still have them. And surprise me ?😁
Clear enough?
lime trellis
Any reason why monotonic_ns() would be returning the ms value with just zeros tacked on? I have LONGINT_IMPL = MPZ in my mpconfigboard.mk
gilded cradle
@idle owl, yeah I did, but the ht16k33 functionality is different enough that all the functions had to be revamped anyways.
idle owl
Ok. Thanks!
gilded cradle
I may end up trying to reuse it with the charlieplex wing functionality though if it’s not too different.
idle owl
Sounds good
pastel panther
hey @meager fog I have another build for you to test when you have a minute
river quest
@marble hornet oh for the tricorder, i grabbed them from here and converted them http://www.trekcore.com/audio/
marble hornet
Thank you. Do you still have the audacitied files ? (They sound garbly rn)
Oops typo
river quest
checkin' if i do not i can make one real fast for ya if you need a hand
marble hornet
Or if you know of a guide? 😁. I checked system but didn't find any cleaning guides
river quest
kattni was faster than me on the linky https://learn.adafruit.com/microcontroller-compatible-audio-file-conversion?view=all
you won this round kattni, however i will be prepared for the next encounter
idle owl
i too will be prepared. we shall meet again.
river quest
@marble hornet looks like i do not have those temp tester wavs
or at least, i have too many things called tricorder and lcars and it cannot find it, hah
marble hornet
Np, thanks for looking 😁
river quest
if you need a hand with any of them i'll be making another one later and i'll keep the files around
also, tested out the camera thing, nice work
will do a little preview for folks to see in the newsletter,e tc
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marble hornet
thank you 😃 i'm flattered.
would it be weird to ask you screen cap you cleaning it? no audio would be fine but to see the process? please
and if you want me to demo and photograph i'd be happy to
solar whale
If I am trying the featherwing_gps driver but am getting ```
Press any key to enter the REPL. Use CTRL-D to reload.
Adafruit CircuitPython 4.0.0-beta.2-97-g0dc260058 on 2019-02-19; Adafruit Grand Central M4 Express with samd51p20
import featherwing_gps_simpletest
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "featherwing_gps_simpletest.py", line 10, in <module>
File "adafruit_featherwing/gps_featherwing.py", line 61, in init
File "adafruit_gps.py", line 122, in send_command
ValueError: string not supported; use bytes or bytearray
Am i missing something?
in CP 4 -- the uart inputs are bytearrays, not strings
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idle owl
@solar whale I need to start leaving those PRs to you. 😄
solar whale
I'm just surprised it worked for anyone
idle owl
I didn't test it. It was stated that it worked successfully in multiple tests, so I assumed it to be fine. That's why I should have left it for you to test, apparently.
Work fast and break things!
And let Jerry find the broken bits 😆
solar whale
It might have worked with CP 3.1.2
idle owl
3.1.2 was never built for the nRF52840 I thought, and that was one she said she tested it on... or I'm conflating PRs here.
solar whale
yes -- it does say that in the PR -- I may have something misconfigured. Will see what comments I get back -- no problem
solar whale
great!
idle owl
Do you mind merging this? https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_Bundle/pull/136
solar whale
done
meager fog
@solar whale hiya
so - for wifi stuff, settings.py is a special filename
so im goint to change it to secrets.py
ill do ESPSPI if you do ESP AT 😃
solar whale
ok -- I was going to change it to somehting -- that works
np -- I'll do AT -- may need @prime flower to do AIO ....
idle owl
@solar whale Thanks!
meager fog
@solar whale ok its here https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_ESP32SPI/pull/12
included a handy demo of getting the time from the internet
solar whale
@meager fog nice -- I'll update AT later this eveing and run tests on them all. I have to head off for awhile now
meager fog
np - ill lint and all that
gilded cradle
I did test it and found that issue and fixed it, but must have not copied the fixed file over before committing.😬
solar whale
np -- PR going in
I have to go for awhile -- back later -- hopefully Travis is in a good mood
river quest
bruce sterling, the author, has been a friend of adafruit back all the way when it was just 2 people (limor and i) today i noticed his twitter account icon is circuitpython, that's pretty cool 😃
meager fog
blinka is cyberpunk for sure
prime flower
@solar whale @meager fog I'll change AIO to secrets.py
meager fog
thax
prime flower
np, just submitted a PR for it and tagged jerryn for further testin'
lone sandal
meager fog
@solar whale around now if ya need smething
solar whale
working on secrets 😉 -- see my notes on your PR -- should the imports be from secrets.py -- do you want the file in examples to stay named esp32spi_secrets.py to distinguish from others, but user should rename to secrets.py on board
solar whale
ok -- I pushed mine -- will grab yours and test
solar whale
@meager fog I tested localtime and cheerlights -- looks good -- want me to merge
tulip sleet
@solar whale is changing the guides and sample code to secrets.py on your agenda too?
solar whale
yes -- working on it now - the examples are updated in the PRs -- looking at the guide now
tulip sleet
i just changed the ATcontrol guide a day or two ago, so it might not be in the best shape anyway
solar whale
lots of changes today already
need to wait until merges are done before udating gude links to code
tulip sleet
np - just wanted to make sure it was on a to-do list
solar whale
I wanted to use some I2C sensors with the new feathewwing libraries -- at first I ran into some pin conflicts becasue the featherwing library creates the i2c object. I got it to work in the example below -- is this the correct way to do this? It works...
import board
import busio
import adafruit_sht31d
import adafruit_veml6070
from adafruit_featherwing import alphanum_featherwing, shared
display = alphanum_featherwing.AlphaNumFeatherWing()
sensor = adafruit_sht31d.SHT31D(shared.I2C_BUS)
uv = adafruit_veml6070.VEML6070(shared.I2C_BUS)
loopcount = 0
while True:
uv_raw = uv.read
risk_level = uv.get_index(uv_raw)
print('Reading: {0} | Risk Level: {1}'.format(uv_raw, risk_level))
display.print(uv_raw)
time.sleep(2)
temperature = sensor.temperature
print("\nTemperature: %0.1f C" % temperature)
display.print(temperature)
print("Humidity: %0.1f %%" % sensor.relative_humidity)
loopcount += 1
time.sleep(2)
# every 10 passes turn on the heater for 1 second
if loopcount == 10:
loopcount = 0
sensor.heater = True
print("Sensor Heater status =", sensor.heater)
time.sleep(1)
sensor.heater = False
print("Sensor Heater status =", sensor.heater)
@solar whale yeah there's a way to use the singleton, they should do that
like the featherwing library should be fixed up to not hog the pins 😃
solar whale
there is a similar (I think) forum post regarding the MotorKit lib https://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=148047 -- but I did not see how to resolve it. Not quite the same
solar whale
not as easy to workaround since the i2c object is not exposed -- at least like it is in the featherwing via "shared"
@meager fog are you done with esp32spi -- should I merge?
meager fog
yah im done
go ahead
yeah thats why they should use the singleton I2C, it ought to be smarter
pastel panther
ok, @tulip sleet I'm trying turning off i2c slave with CIRCUITPY_I2CSLAVE = 0 to try and get the german hallowing build to fit
looks like it worked/fit without the CFLAGS_INLINE_LIMIT
tulip sleet
ok, so we still have a backup strategy!
solar whale
No more huzzah in CP 😉
solar whale
same -- goodnight all!
pastel panther
thanks for the help @tulip sleet
tulip sleet
yw!
pastel panther
let's just hope our german friends are sleeping until this gets merged 😉
exotic pumice
does displayio work with ssd1306?
pastel panther
It can but you would have to adapt the driver from adafruit_rgb_display; mainly just converting the init commands and passing them to a display constructor
short answer 'not yet', long answer yes if you want to put in the work.
exotic pumice
ok thanks, I won't bother
I have better displays coming, this is just the first one that arrived
I'll enjoy my super slow bouncing ball in the meantime
solar whale
@tulip sleet before I go too far down a rabbit-hole can you let me know if I'm headed sown the right hole ... I noticed taht the particle boards do not have the "singleton" bus devices defined in their pins.c files so I tried adding ```
{ MP_ROM_QSTR(MP_QSTR_UART), MP_ROM_PTR(&board_uart_obj) },
{ MP_ROM_QSTR(MP_QSTR_SPI), MP_ROM_PTR(&board_spi_obj) },
{ MP_ROM_QSTR(MP_QSTR_I2C), MP_ROM_PTR(&board_i2c_obj) },
to the particle_argon pins.c -- it seems to work. After adding them I can usesensor = adafruit_sht31d.SHT31D(board.I2C())
uv = adafruit_veml6070.VEML6070(board.I2C())
<@&356864093652516868> Check out the PyCascades live stream. In just over an hour @fathom trellis will be presenting circuitpython. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTdYyCKcI8Q
@lime trellis It's ms with zeroes because we don't have ns resolution but monotonic_ns is in CPython
it keeps ms resolution consisten unlike monotonic which suffers from being a float
raven canopy
its kind of funny. since the podcasts recommendations last week, that's pretty much all i've been listening to. current talk python to me is almost over. just in time for a live talk circuitpython to me broadcast.. 😄
tulip sleet
@solar whale, it's just an oversight. We didn't bother on the test boards (like PCA10056), not for any strong reason
solar whale
ok -- pr for particles is in
tulip sleet
pca10059 - there's no standard for the choice of pins, so that's why we wouldn't bother (not Arduino nor Feather style)
solar whale
agreed!
tulip sleet
I see that DEFAULT_I2C_BUS_SDA etc. was already defined. If not it wouldn't have worked
solar whale
yes -- I saw that too
solar whale
I am suggesting a change to the featherwing library to make it use the board.I2C() function -- that may make it incompatible with the pca10059 -- is that a problem? https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_FeatherWing/issues/35
tulip sleet
it could fail with a meaningful exception
maybe make FeatherWing use board.I2C() by default but allow explicitly supplied I2C as well?
solar whale
or is there an harm in creating default pins for the pca10059?
tulip sleet
well, the pca10059 is not a feather. we could invent a standard, but there aren't that many pins. Do we have enough for all the default pins?
river quest
got weather workin on pyportal, will be posting more about it soon!
solar whale
probably not worth it -- there are enough pins, but there would not be many left... allowing options is perhaps the best thing -- gets messy if you add other I2C devises
river quest
i've done embedded development in some way for maybe 20 years now, this was the easiest and most fun way to get weather on a screen, over the internet, ever.
solar whale
featherwings belong on feathers...
pastel panther
hey @solar whale @crimson ferry @prime flower and anyone else who cares/mades this possible: after finishing wiring my huzzah32 and feather m4 to an am2315 around 2:00am, I got it posting to adafruit.io within half an hour . I left it running while I slept and as far as I can tell it ran throughout the night without any issues.
Great work everyone!
solar whale
nice!
pastel panther
also adafruit.io is ridiculously easy to use.
pastel panther
@raven canopy It appears something (probably me) caused my last push to my PR to generate two travis builds, one of which has been "queued" for the last 13 hours. Any ideas how to fix? I tried "Re-run all" and it just re-ran the first build but not the second.
raven canopy
got a link?
raven canopy
huh. Travis is even showing that 2620 passed, whereas GH is showing queued. 🤔
although, it may show queued since you clicked re-run all, and its behind the current merge build.
pastel panther
I did that last night well before going to bed after it had already been stuck for a few hours
Is it possible that travis sees two jobs for the same commit and it's like "naw"
tulip sleet
i restarted the stuck one, let's see what happens
raven canopy
yeah. it may be the 2 parent commit that confused Travis. i don't think it will affect mergeability though.
tulip sleet
it's waiting in line behind some other stuff
solar whale
@prime flower I tagged you for a review on some changes to ESP_ATcontrol but I don't recall if you every actually used it. IN either case, your review is welcome, but I can remove it if you prefer.
slender iron
<@&356864093652516868> Nina is on now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTdYyCKcI8Q
tulip sleet
watching!
raven canopy
i was wondering if we were all the the "11 waiting". 😆
pastel panther
probably 😃
raven canopy
though, my stream is...ah, there it goes.
slender iron
😃
raven canopy
well done, and no live_demo_hijinx!
pastel panther
speaking of hijinx, @raven canopy can you hit travis with a stick? The second build is not doing so
raven canopy
haha. if i could, i would. Travis and I have been in a standoff lately as well.
pastel panther
Thanks @tulip sleet !
tulip sleet
Yw! Dunno what the build issue is, but not important.
raven canopy
i think it was more on the GH side, since the Travis passed twice.
pastel panther
That fork/branch has had a hard life so I'd understand if it made gitgub 🤔
gilded cradle
Thanks @slender iron! Now I don't have to completely miss PyCascades.
raven canopy
Shucks. I wanted to watch that decorator talk but got busy...
idle owl
<@&356864093652516868> Here is the notes doc for the CircuitPython Weekly tomorrow. Please feel free to add your hug reports and status updates even if you will be on voice. Thanks! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GZhcclyUv_L1zOAMBZxbVQU3hAzOmC_zlORlTWOhzAM/edit
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marble hornet
anyone have a good guide for setting up a script? is it just bash language?
stuck elbow
you can use any language you have an interpreter for installed -- bash, perl, python
even php, if you really hate yourself that much
marble hornet
so if i wanted to write a bash script to auto git stuff can i ask is it a .bash or?
raven canopy
.sh is the file extension.
manic glacierBOT
marble hornet
echo hello world```if causing an error saying syntax error
Expected end of line, etc. but found identifier.
umbral dagger
@meager fog I'm back
umbral dagger
@meager fog The rplidar repo....
meager fog
yah!
so i think lets have one init'
but you can pass in either a string or a UART obj
instead of splitting in two
umbral dagger
OK.. how to deal with imports that aren't available in CP?
I guess the same trick will work.. looking at the implementation name
meager fog
what are you importin?
umbral dagger
serial & codecs
meager fog
serial you can import within the init code
so it only gets included if the port is a string
which codec are we talkin' about?
umbral dagger
And that'll still bring it in at the global level?
meager fog
yes - python is Weird like that
umbral dagger
ah
umbral dagger
ok, I'll take another pass at the structure
meager fog
which codec are we inclidng?
umbral dagger
serialnumber = codecs.decode(serialnumber, 'ascii')```I can get rid of that and do somethign different with the serial number
idle owl
@marble hornet For future reference, you can edit a GitHub comment to add more information or to correct a typo, instead of adding further replies. You can put a backtick on either side of something to make it display as code, which would fix your _onshow_ being in italics issue.
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exotic pumice
I got bored of my bouncing ball
marble hornet
nice
exotic pumice
now I know my i2c works too
marble hornet
new board?
exotic pumice
it's my samd51 hardware abstraction layer for rust
raven canopy
haha. that ® was much smaller than i expected.
exotic pumice
lol, it's a rust logo not a registered circle
raven canopy
i know. but...no :rust:. 😦
raven canopy
yeah. if you have the image file, the admins might agree to add it as a server emoticon.
exotic pumice
idle owl
idle owl
👍
gilded cradle
Nice
exotic pumice
I'm thinking about reimplementing the bouncing ball demo in to see how fast it goes
vs python, though it may be more dependant on i2c speed than language speed
I'm imagining scott checking his phone at pycascades and it's all rust logos in here 😂
gilded cradle
Maybe there needs to be a #rust topic channel too?
exotic pumice
I don't think it would get enough traffic
gilded cradle
Perhaps
exotic pumice
maybe just #other-languages
then we could have like circuitscheme, whatever languages nis implemented, and all that under one roof
gilded cradle
Well, whatever the admins want to do 😃
raven canopy
i miss python already:
In file included from ../../shared-bindings/frequencyio/FrequencyIn.h:31:0,
from ../../shared-bindings/frequencyio/__init__.c:34:
./common-hal/frequencyio/FrequencyIn.h:34:1: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'typedef'
typedef struct {
🤣
exotic pumice
forgot a semicolon?
raven canopy
can't find it. i've looked through the chain twice now (to include the massive py/obj.h). 😵
exotic pumice
oh by the way there are people working on a implementation of python
just like there's CPython
raven canopy
or, Cython?
exotic pumice
I just googled that and it looks more like a transpiler, I'm talking about a python runtime
raven canopy
ahh. have they proposed a name? (cause that's what matters, right? 😄)
exotic pumice
just rustpython
manic glacierBOT
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prime flower
@pastel panther congratz, glad IO and 
are meeting
visual valley
so, I plan to make a contribution but I guess Ill need some advice on what exactly to change.
right now to get my little tft to work i had to do:
class ST7735Rmini(ST7735R):
def __init__(self, spi, dc, cs, rst=None, width=128, height=128, coloff=2, rowoff=3):
self.coloff = coloff
self.rowoff = rowoff
super().__init__(spi, dc, cs, rst, width, height)
def _block(self, x0, y0, x1, y1, data=None):
"""Read or write a block of data."""
self.write(self._COLUMN_SET, self._encode_pos(x0+self.coloff, x1+self.coloff))
self.write(self._PAGE_SET, self._encode_pos(y0+self.rowoff, y1+self.rowoff))
if data is None:
size = struct.calcsize(self._DECODE_PIXEL)
return self.read(self._RAM_READ,
(x1 - x0 + 1) * (y1 - y0 + 1) * size)
self.write(self._RAM_WRITE, data)
return None
but _block is in rgb.py's Display class, which means if I just add the offsets to that Ill have to edit every tft initalizer
I assume this is the preferred way to add this:
class Display:
def __init__(self, width, height, xoffset=0, yoffset=0):
#save offsets
# update _block
class DisplaySPI
def __init__(self, spi, dc, cs, rst=None, width=1, height=1,
baudrate=12000000, polarity=0, phase=0, xoffset=0, yoffset=0):
# pass them to super
class <anything based on Display>
def __init__(self, spi, dc, cs, rst=None, width=128, height=128, xoffset=0, yoffset=0):
# classes that do *not* send the offset during init can just pass them to super
class ST7735R:
# this class DOES send it, though it also resends it before sending pixels so i dont think it matters
def init(self):
super().init()
cols = struct.pack('>HH', self.xoffset, self.width - 1+self.xoffset)
rows = struct.pack('>HH', self.yoffset, self.height - 1+self.yoffset)
#etc
but then i dont know anything about the other tft drivers atm so i dont know if the offset is useful for them, but either way i have to modify _block in display so it kind of impacts them
i could just override _block for the st7735R and add the offset in the super call but i am not sure if people would prefer i make it available to everyone
not sure if this question is better as an issue on the repo
visual valley
there is an issue already lol dang it
marble hornet
is there at support for the esp8285?
raven canopy
@marble hornet from what i can find (8285 documentation is lacking that i can see), the AT is the same as the 8266. the 8285 just seems to be a esp8266 with the flash on the chip.
pastel panther
@prime flower The enclosure/sensor is now in my neighbors gourmet mushroom farm. We have lots of plans 😃
raven canopy
@exotic pumice finally found what was causing the obscure compiler error. how did that little guy even get up there!? 🤦
exotic pumice
ouchie
raven canopy
yeah. stole a whole day from me...
exotic pumice
remember my off by one enum that cost me months?
Pepperidge Farm Remembers
hey @slender iron how's pycascades?
slender iron
really awesome. a whirlwind for sure
exotic pumice
great
modern wing
I didn't have a chance to catch their livestream -- I'll have to ask later if there were any particularly outstanding talks 😃
pastel panther
hey @slender iron did you do any work on the ST7735 driver for displayio?
slender iron
not recently
pastel panther
hey @visual valley I responded to your comment in the offset issue with some info
visual valley
nice thanks
plucky flint
Lots of CircuitPython/Adafruit love in this blog post about a young coder's funky hardware project... 😃 https://twitter.com/ntoll/status/1099949364955545600
Twitter
exotic pumice
I adapted the picture from the ssd1306 demo to my own purpose
manic glacierBOT
solar whale
@gilded cradle Since it looks like the ESP_ATControl is not going away I have ported the ESP32SPI wifi-manager -(you made it very easy) I have a bit more testing to do but hope to have a PR in later today. Thanks for paving the way!
solar whale
@prime flower as a result of above .. it looks like it will be easy to get all the adfruitIO examples working with ESP_ATcontrol -- just tested the weather access - worked fine
prime flower
@solar whale Nice!
solar whale
so far ESP32 with ATControl works fine -- there are some annoying differences with the ESP8266 responses
@prime flower arrgh -- it worked until you added this https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_AdafruitIO/blame/master/adafruit_io/adafruit_io.py#L60 I'll have to add an alternate check for ATcontrol
prime flower
@solar whale Sorry! The v1.0 of CircuitPython_IO will be released for spi wifi manager, and I'll add ATControl after when you're ready to PR
rapid development 🤘
solar whale
No problem -- I'll be happy to put in a PR when I am done testing
this is the least of my problems...
@prime flower Is that test really necessary? In order to do the test both esp32sip and espatcontroll have to be installed and imported to check -- seems like a lot of overhead
prime flower
@solar whale Agreed that it is a lot of overhead. it was previously checking if object was not None
solar whale
that seems sufficient to me
prime flower
It'll fail pretty hard if something else gets passed in as a wifi object, though.
solar whale
don't do that 😉
I'll raise it as an issue if/when I get this working and am ready to PR
raven canopy
@prime flower @solar whale maybe using type() would be better than isinstance(), since there will be multiple types now. Think something like this would work?
wifi_type = str(type(wifi))
If (("esp_yada" in wifi_type) or ("esp_yidi" in wifi_type)):
Not at a Python capable computer, so I could be imagining possibilities. 😄
solar whale
@raven canopy thanks -- looks promising -- I'll try it out
solar whale
@raven canopy @prime flower that seems to work well
prime flower
@solar whale do you know what type(your_at_wifi_manager) returns?
I'm adding it in as a PR, just tested it as well
solar whale
I fogot to change it 😉 it will be ESPAT_WifiManager -- unless you have a better suggestion
right now it pretends to be ESPSPI_WfiManager and gets away with it...
prime flower
@solar whale could you change it to ESPAT_WiFiManager?
to match the case of ESPSPI_WiFiManager
solar whale
yes -- that is what it should be
the nice thing is now you don't have to do the import at all!
prime flower
mhm, removing that fluff from config as well
solar whale
@prime flower while you are making changes -- I just noticed this ```It is Overcast and 36.39*F.
with a humidity of 0.39%
or the humidity is really low today
oops -- mised it -- get it on the next PR
prime flower
I'll make a sep. one, want to keep the PRs to what they're fixing
gilded cradle
I just saw your message @solar whale. Sounds good. I thought we were abandoning the AT, which is why I hadn't ported it.
solar whale
np and no rush on this one
@gilded cradle it looks like it gets to live another day ...
gilded cradle
😃 cool
solar whale
the port was very easy
prime flower
@idle owl I created a RTD for CircuitPython Adafruit IO and added you/adabot as maintainers. Could this be added as a subproject under circuitpython?
idle owl
Can you send me a link please? I want to verify it first.
idle owl
The slug is incorrect. And if you leave like this, none of the integrations in the repo will work.
The slug is always the library name minus the Adafruit_CircuitPython, so in this case, the slug should be adafruitio, however, looking at the repo, it's incorrect there as well. https://circuitpython.readthedocs.io/projects/adafruit_io/en/latest/ and https://readthedocs.org/projects/adafruit-circuitpython-adafruit_io/badge/?version=latest is not right.
@prime flower You need to fix the README.rst file in that repo, and redo the RTD entry. The screenshots in the Creating and sharing a CircuitPython Library are misleading, the text is correct.
prime flower
(sorry for delay, was making an evernote file for setting this up)
prime flower
@idle owl So, I'd change the name of the project on RTD to adafruitio, redo the README.rst with the new links
idle owl
You can't change RTD. You've been through this before.
prime flower
Yeah, I remember the RTD URL doesn't change. I'm trying to remember if I deleted the project and changed the name or if there was another way..
@idle owl Ok, I redid the RTD setup. Could you verify that the URL is correct https://readthedocs.org/projects/adafruitio/
prime flower
ok, I'll PR the README with the correct link when it's added
idle owl
Oh, one thing I didn't catch until I tried to add it. The name is always Adafruit CircuitPython LibName. The slug and the name are different. Please update the name to be correct.
prime flower
Changed the name
idle owl
Ok added.
prime flower
Just saw it, thx, adding a correct badge
prime flower
@idle owl I'm missing something and don't know what I'm doing wrong in this process. When the project is created by importing the repo to RTD, the name is set to the slug, adafruitio. Then, in settings, I changed the name to Adafruit_CircuitPython_AdafruitIO. But, RTD is set up so the URL doesnt update with it to: https://readthedocs.org/projects/adafruit-circuitpython-adafruitio/badge/?version=latest, it's still at https://readthedocs.org/projects/adafruitio/badge/?version=latest
idle owl
Ok. I told you incorrectly. We have to do this again. When you create the project, you call it Adafruit CircuitPython AdafruitIO and RTD does the rest. When I add it to the CircuitPython project is when the CP URL is created, and that's when it's called adafruitio.
Then the first URL will be correct, which is what it should be. And the CircuitPython URL will be right as well.
prime flower
Ok, np
@idle owl updated my notes, added you and adabot to https://readthedocs.org/projects/adafruit-circuitpython-adafruitio/
idle owl
Ok added. Should be correct now.
prime flower
Looks good, thank you for the help.
tulip sleet
@slender iron I was doing some initial work on the pyportal crashes. I got a slideshow running on a TFT FeatherWing, but it doesn't crash. May have to wait for a pyportal.
In displayio/__init__.c, primary_display_t displays[CIRCUITPY_DISPLAY_LIMIT]; is not in the root pointers list. I'd think maybe it should be, cause it's a static object that points to heap objects. But maybe I'm confused.
gilded cradle
@idle owl , on the Adafruit IO Travis build it's failing with
invalid option "--api_key="
failed to deploy
Any ideas?
idle owl
@gilded cradle Yes, I need to add the API key.
gilded cradle
Ok, cool. I thought it might be something like that.
idle owl
@gilded cradle I'll take care of it later today when I'm doing the library work. There are a few others that need one as well.
gilded cradle
Sounds good
gusty kiln
hey friends, how's the circuitpython life?
idle owl
@gusty kiln!!
<@&356864093652516868> Meeting in ~22 minutes. Here's the notes doc. Please add your hug reports and status updates even if you'll be there in voice - it's super helpful! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GZhcclyUv_L1zOAMBZxbVQU3hAzOmC_zlORlTWOhzAM/edit#
@gusty kiln How are things with you?
gusty kiln
really good - i'm currently way too saturated with wikimedia's hilarious complexity to even think about hardware projects, but i wanted to swing through and register my intention to eventually pay some attention to this stuff again... :)
pastel panther
hi @gusty kiln !
gilded cradle
Hi @gusty kiln
gusty kiln
yeah, it is pretty much a giant rube goldberg machine.
idle owl
I'm now picturing you in a never-ending Ok Go video.
gusty kiln
yeah, like that, but made of shell scripts. :)
idle owl
hah!
gusty kiln
(ok go should really do a video with shell scripts.)
idle owl
(agreed)
modern wing
Shells scripts all the way down. Don't forget your totem....never tell anyone how you customize your terminal window, that way you'll know how it behaves so you don't get stuck in the code world.
idle owl
@gusty kiln later!
modern wing
Btw, I'm lurking today 😃
foggy schooner
@idle owl yes!
idle owl
Excellent! Thanks for joining us 😃
idle owl
<@&356864093652516868> Meeting starting in a minute!
tidal kiln
lurking
tulip sleet
@marble hornet please mute
modern wing
idle owl
tulip sleet
foggy schooner
can help with german
inland tusk
I am text only today no mic
raven canopy
🥊
timber mango
Lurking today, no audio
raven canopy
- @nnja (Nina Zakharenko) for the great "Python on hardware" talk at PyCascades
- @tannewt for representing CircuitPython at PyCascades
- @kattni and @MakerMelissa for identifying and idea-bouncing tooling issues and enhancements
- @jerryn, @brentr, @MakerMelissa, @ladyada, and anyone I'm missing for all the WiFi work.
- Group Hug, beyond that.
inland tusk
gr oup hug to all
modern wing
@tulip sleet Is the vod for that talk up?
tulip sleet
see 2:07 (ET) links above in thiis channel
modern wing
thank you
tulip sleet
(NIna Z)
inland tusk
Midi mouth piece code for my ocrina demo using a mcp single port analog pressure senor
timber mango
How "ready" is CP for a mixed platform project between Feather, LoRa, and Raspberry Pi? This is very likely an "in the weeds" topic.
modern wing
In the weeds question: Do we have a procedure to update the learn guide for the gcc-arm-embedded changes for MacOS?
solar whale
@timber mango should be "good to go"
tulip sleet
@modern wing et al nnja talk is in video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTdYyCKcI8Q . It's the first talk
modern wing
@tulip sleet That's awesome, thanks for digging that up
errant grail
Lurking and late today...
solar whale
@timber mango CP LoRa is only a basic subset of RadioHead, but it is functional
timber mango
Awesome, thank you!
solar whale
bring it up In the weeds if you have specific questions
tulip sleet
@modern wing I'll put updating the MacOS gcc-arm-embedded on my to-do list.
raven canopy
Last Week:
-
adabot:
- Forced the reports to use unbuffered stdout to hopefully mitigate the 10 minute idle Travis failures.
- Changed Travis build to a matrix; bundle update is now one build, and reports a separate one.
- Tried and couldn't duplicate the newline issue when pasting report output into Google docs. I tried pasting in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. And also copied from AWS in browser, .txt file, and the terminal. Don't have access to Mac, so that could be where the issue lies. I can still add
\rto the line endings if needed.
-
FrequencyIn:
- Continued re-gluing work. Got through the new
circuitpy_config part; much nicer way of doing things(thanks again @danh). Still fighting a couple compile errors; either some other things changed or I didn't update my backup files before nuking the out-of-date branch.
- Continued re-gluing work. Got through the new
-
Started working on a fun Pirate translation, after @CGrover mentioned it last week. Not going to do the entire translation, as others have mentioned a desire to contribute. I know it was a joke, but I think this is beneficial from a education standpoint. What child (like myself) wouldn't love to interact with hardware that talks like a pirate? Even if it is talking only with error messages, learning what not to do is just as important.
This Week:
-
FrequencyIn
- Keep pushing through compile errors.
-
adabot:
- issue list grew last week, so I'll probably start attacking some of those.
-
Pirate translation:
- Get a little more done then PR it so others can careen it a bit.
modern wing
Thank you @tulip sleet -- let me know when you do, because I just reimaged my MBP. I'll be happy to test it.
prime flower
Last week:
Gave a talk about contributing to open source with circuitpython at futurelabs nyc
Went really well!
Finalized CircuitPython Adafruit IO
IoT has come to CircuitPython over LoRa/LoRaWAN and WiFi now!
Released v1.0 this morning: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_AdafruitIO
Finished dual stepper guide (https://learn.adafruit.com/wireless-stepper-control-with-adafruit-io-circuitpython-raspberry-pi-python)
This week:
Library is done, so it’s time for a guide
Prelim. Guide: Using CircuitPython with Adafruit IO
Ft. PyPortal, support for other boards too
Continued development of the CircuitPython Adafruit IO library
Jerryn is working on an ESP ATControl WiFimanager, I’ll merge it in when he’s ready.
Any other examples I can think of will be added to IO CircuitPython
Brought @adafruitio back to life - working on getting it tweeting again
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modern wing
@prime flower That's awesome the talk went well. Let us know if anything else comes up in the future -- I'm local to NYC/NJ, and hopefully I'll able to attend next time.
prime flower
@modern wing Thank you! Absolutely - hopefully this'll lead to another event in the nyc region
errant grail
<temporary unlurk> Group hug today. Still working the details of my first CircuitPython class library. The class is working – just adding some controls and decorators. Working on the hardware design first really helped me develop the class UI. Will continue working on that project, sending PCB design off later this week. Lots of snow shoveling planned, as well. <re-lurk mode>
inland tusk
Midi mouth piece code for my ocrina demo using a mcp single port analog pressure senor
raven canopy
weeds: move ESP8266 AT support to the community bundle?
prime flower
weeds: namedtuple instead of dicts
raven canopy
If Adafruit is going to "full" drop ESP8266 support in the AT library, or if it just causes too much overhead, we could make a specific 8266 AT and out it in the Community Bundle. Allows a vector for at least minimal use and future maintainability.
pastel panther
@visual valley It looks like scott did do some initial work on a ST7735 displayio driver: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_ST7735/blob/master/adafruit_st7735.py
(I have no idea if it works)
wraith tiger
Just listening in
raven canopy
Yeah. I know TLS is a problem going forward. This helps head-off any future quagmires.
prime flower
feed_name['value'].
The IO Python library uses feed_name.value. I'm not sure which way we should use.
raven canopy
For pub/sub, couldn't you also save some memory by requesting a feed, changing a value in the object, and sending it back with a pub?
corner of the knapkin; I need to study the pub function more
modern wing
Thank you all 😃
visual valley
@pastel panther kk ill give it a try
raven canopy
Good stuff today. Everyone was seriously jobbing last week! Thanks all. Have a fantabulous week!
gilded cradle
Thanks everyone
solar whale
👋
prime flower
👋
raven canopy
I don't have a problem with it going away either. But...8266s and AT uses are in the wild, so offering an option helps the community cope. For lack of a better term.
👋
prime flower
@raven canopy this is dict->namedtuple code for the python lib (https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_IO_Python/blob/master/Adafruit_IO/model.py#L85). I think the arguments against doing this outweigh the cross-compatibility...but maybe not 🤷
idle owl
@tidal kiln You're welcome 😄
modern wing
I can't begin to say how nice it is to be able to listen to these meetings afterwards -- I had to step away twice just during this one, and it's a trivial task to load them up and scrub to the spots I missed.
meager fog
@gilded cradle @solar whale @umbral dagger @tidal kiln ✳
umbral dagger
@meager fog ??
solar whale
whohoo!
tidal kiln
self.mode = Human.READY
meager fog
lol
gilded cradle
OK
umbral dagger
Ready
meager fog
eta like 2-3 minutes
solar whale
⏱
pastel panther
👀
umbral dagger
This is like when WWDC or Blizzcon tickets go on sale!
meager fog
ok @pastel panther @umbral dagger @tidal kiln @solar whale https://www.adafruit.com/product/4116
and anyone i forgot
more coming tomorrow - so if you miss it let me know
and ill give you an early warning
solar whale
got one!
meager fog
yay
tidal kiln
@meager fog thanks! ordered.
solar whale
thanks for the alert!
meager fog
🐍 💜 ⏲
pastel panther
thanks @meager fog
umbral dagger
Thanks for the heads-up
obsidian hemlock
got one 😄
gilded cradle
Thanks for the heads up
umbral dagger
I keep getting ideas for the PyPortal. Both standalone and as a component in somethign larger.
pastel panther
same. current plan is mushroom farm automation controller
meager fog
🍄
gilded cradle
I want to give a good test run before I decide what to do with it. 😃
tidal kiln
@pastel panther hopefully with a LCARS interface
pastel panther
@tidal kiln is there any other kind?
"computer. <bweeble> 10 kilos of lion's mane, stat"
umbral dagger
@tidal kiln That's my plan
manic glacierBOT
umbral dagger
board.L on a PyPortal is the light sensor?
slender iron
I think its the LED
manic glacierBOT
idle owl
@slender iron I'm going to revert adding Blinka to the CPX lib as well. If we're planning on a whitelist, it might as well go on it.
slender iron
yup, please refer to that issue too
idle owl
Done
slender iron
it was an easy adabot thing to knock out and now we realize its probably and adabot fix
no worries on britt's end, we've talked about it
idle owl
There were plenty in that list that were legitimately missing it as well 😃
slender iron
waves at @cunning marsh
cunning marsh
waves back!
umbral dagger
OK.. I pulled & rebuilt. Pins are updated.
idle owl
@cunning marsh Hey! Welcome! Thanks for getting all of those fixed up! 😃 Apologies for the misleading error list.
raven canopy
watch out for the stampede! 🏃 🐄
meager fog
@raven canopy did youg et one?
raven canopy
i'll defer until stable stock. my cycles are too few these days. gotta get this FrequencyIn off my desk!! 😄
main meteor
It's a pretty PCB.
cunning marsh
Not a problem at all @idle owl, I'm here with tannewt and he has given me the run down of the situation. I offered to update adabot to potentially search through the repos to see if we are importing anything that would require adafrut-blinka
idle owl
That would be brilliant!
We still need an option to manually whitelist though, because, for example, and it's a unique example (may be the only one), the Adafruit_CircuitPython_CircuitPlayground library should be whitelisted, but does import libs.
raven canopy
@cunning marsh i think there are two possible ways. 1) hardcoded whitelist similar to the BUNDLE_IGNORE_LIST like @idle owl is referring to. 2) utilize the repo_is_on_pypi() function; Blinka is only required for RPi etc, where the libs are downloaded from PyPI. And thanks for helping out with my bff (adabot)!
repo_is_on_pypi() is here: https://github.com/adafruit/adabot/blob/master/adabot/circuitpython_libraries.py#L887
cunning marsh
Perfect! I'll start looking around there! 😃
idle owl
The only issue with using repo_is_on_pypi() is in the event that the lib should be on PyPI and isn't. However, we can let it cascade fail, i.e. check if it's on PyPI, and then when it is, fail if it's missing Blinka on a future check.
main meteor
Still 22 there 😃
modern wing
21 remaining 😃
gilded cradle
I see 16
modern wing
I promise you, there's one fewer now 
gilded cradle
Not anymore. I just changed my number 😄
modern wing
Between this, all my other projects sitting here feeling left out, and what I'm dubbing the "arcadewing"....it's going to be an awesome first half of the year.
gilded cradle
Yeah, it sure is
modern wing
I've been loosely following the pyportal, and the number of sensors that are on it that didn't have to be there is awesome -- a light sensor? temperature sensor? hmm. now that opens up half a dozen ideas I'd normally break out a breadboard/protoboard(wing).
raven canopy
1.9.2
raven canopy
i think its pip install pylint==1.9.2
marble hornet
it's working, thank you
should i just run pylint file_name.py or do we use -thing?
raven canopy
just the file name, no flags. we do disable some things for examples. also, you can grab a copy of the .pylintrc from a library which has the "standard" pylint config.
marble hornet
okay
raven canopy
are you working on a library?
marble hornet
i'm not getting output beyond:
No config file found, using default configuration
************* Module adafruit_framebuf
E:281, 0: invalid syntax (<string>, line 281) (syntax-error)
but
the line is def text(self, string, x, y, color, *, font_name="font5x8.bin", size = 1):
raven canopy
@marble hornet the run on Travis shows a few more than that. it may be because of the .pytlintrc config. but, with that particular one, you shouldn't have whitespace in keyword args. size=1
tough flax
Hey #circuitpython-dev folks - is there a way to know when the USB initialization is done in CP? I saw a problem on the M4 where if I created a Keyboard object too soon it would send characters before the host OS was ready for it. Adding a time.sleep(2) was enough to get me past it. On the NRF52840, that's now about 8 seconds and it changes regularly. Basically if I try to create the Keyboard object before I see the Windows Explorer window pop up showing CIRCUITPY it'll be a bad boot.
I've added time.sleep(10) but I'd much rather add a sanity check like
while(usb.status() != READY):
time.sleep(.5)
That would be safer and take less time.
Any ideas?
manic glacierBOT
river quest
here is a post that has time-code links to nina's excellent talk from pycascades - https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/02/25/video-pycascades-light-up-your-life-with-python-and-leds-nnja-pycascades2019-pycascades-pycascades/
tough flax
Thanks for the heads-up on the PiPortal #grabbyHands
manic glacierBOT
crimson ferry
Ordered PyPortal just in time, only two left. It's really a great value for all that's on it.
umbral dagger
Any docs on the coordinate system on the PyPortal for positioning text areas?
tulip sleet
@tough flax - I haven't seen delayed USB for a long time, but it might be present on Windows (haven't tried that). There's a new bootloader (0.2.9) for Feather nRF52840. You can install it with adafruit-nrfutil. See the bottom of this page: https://learn.adafruit.com/bluefruit-nrf52-feather-learning-guide/updating-the-bootloader, which shows using a Linux port, but it could be a COM port too. Find adafruit-nrfutil.exe here: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_nRF52_nrfutil/releases/latest (tag is messed up due to AppVeyor issue)
I'll write it up in a more general way soon, but not right now.
tough flax
Ok - I will try that out later this week - thank you!
raven canopy
@tulip sleet have you seen any recent builds failing on import <x> from the REPL? i get one SyntaxError, and then the board resets... just wondering if i need to track down what I've done, or if i just need to update my branch some more. 😄
metro_m4, is what i'm working with.
tulip sleet
which board and build? it might be something like the problem that seems to be bothering the pyportal
crossed
the latest master should be the best. does it matter what the import is?
are you using displayio?
raven canopy
doesn't matter. board and frequencyio have both failed for me. i did spy the call stack and saw some displayio activity, so that makes sense. (i'm not using it)
this is my last non-local commit:
commit d33923942bfa69c9a9ae30d5ee62f86e402b1b48
Merge: af863a3 10cdf9a
Author: Scott Shawcroft <scott@tannewt.org>
Date: Fri Feb 22 13:05:33 2019 -0800
Merge pull request #1576 from Tasm-Devil/master
i'll pull to current master. 🤞
tulip sleet
there is background checking about whether to do any displayio stuff. I'm going to check some a possible heap/gc issue about displays, but maybe tomorrow, not tonight (too tired)
raven canopy
k. thanks! at least i'm not too crazy... 😄
tulip sleet
so you mean you started in a fresh repl and then did import board or whatever and it crashed right away?
or did a lot of other stuff happen before that?
(I'm looking for all the clues I can get)
raven canopy
i would get a SyntaxError from stdin. then, any subsequent action would cause a reset.
let me spin it up real quick, and grab the repl output
tulip sleet
and you were importing a builtin module, hmm
raven canopy
side note: a bonus to win10 1809 update is that my boards re-enumerate now when starting debug with Atmel Studio. no more run->stop->run!
tulip sleet
i haven't seen that before. it's like it's reading bad chars. maybe, just maybe try another cable or port? What are your local changes?
raven canopy
local changes are just new fequencyio shared-bindings, common-hal, and addition to circuitpy_ config.
tulip sleet
you could try git-stashing those or something, and see if it's reproducible
raven canopy
changed cable. same result. yeah, i'll build one on my master and give it a shot before i pull from upstream.
marble hornet
Got gui working on sharp memory display
raven canopy
@tulip sleet without my additions seemed to work. but, seems i may have some AS7/JLink problems; wasn't programming so had to drag the uf2 over. narrowing down, but seems its not a CP problem. sorry for the scare!
tulip sleet
okee, lemme know if it's reproducible in a standard. np!
raven canopy
will do. updating segger software atm. hopefully win10 1809 hasn't hosed my dev env...
yep. its a my-system problem. uf2 works like magic:
Press any key to enter the REPL. Use CTRL-D to reload.
Adafruit CircuitPython 4.0.0-beta.2-128-g4a9f05a-dirty on 2019-02-26; Adafruit Metro M4 Express with samd51j19
>>> import board, frequencyio
>>>
this is not looking like fun. now it won't enumerate.... 😬 🎢
crimson ferry
Any thoughts about having adafruit_esp32spi_wifimanager support DotStar as the status pixel (e.g., the built-in Dotstar on the ItsyBitsy M4 Express)?
raven canopy
@crimson ferry i imagine its doable, but would require some breaking changes. i would put up a new issue on the repo: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_ESP32SPI/issues
umbral dagger
Current project
raven canopy
ok. so this means its time to call it a night. frequencyin is now causing a race condition, busting USB, and win10 won't release the enumerations which forces a restart to be able to use the board. 😪
exotic pumice
😢
raven canopy
yeah. and i thought it would be smooth sailing once i got back to compiling. 😆
exotic pumice
haha
raven canopy
i mean..it worked a week ago! oh wells. early/long day tomorrow. 👋
exotic pumice
git checkout "a week ago"
raven canopy
haha. but that puts me back to like 6 months behind of master. no TinyUSB. no new super-awesome module configuration.