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cerulean pebble
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 John Furcean
# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT

"""I2C rotary encoder simple test example."""

import board
import supervisor
import time
from adafruit_seesaw import seesaw, rotaryio, digitalio

# For use with the STEMMA connector on QT Py RP2040
# import busio
# i2c = busio.I2C(board.SCL1, board.SDA1)
# seesaw = seesaw.Seesaw(i2c, 0x36)

seesaw = seesaw.Seesaw(board.STEMMA_I2C(), addr=0x36)

seesaw_product = (seesaw.get_version() >> 16) & 0xFFFF
print("Found product {}".format(seesaw_product))
if seesaw_product != 4991:
    print("Wrong firmware loaded?  Expected 4991")

seesaw.pin_mode(24, seesaw.INPUT_PULLUP)
button = digitalio.DigitalIO(seesaw, 24)
button_held = False

encoder = rotaryio.IncrementalEncoder(seesaw)
position = 0
last_position = 0
pulse_count = 0

def send_pulse_count(pulse_count):
    print('%d pulses sent!' % pulse_count)
        



while True:

    # negate the position to make clockwise rotation positive
    position = -encoder.position

    if position != last_position:   
        pulse_count += (position - last_position)
        last_position = position
        print("Position: {}".format(position))

    if not button.value and not button_held:
        button_held = True
        print("Button pressed")

    if button.value and button_held:
        button_held = False
        print("Button released")
        send_pulse_count()
        pulse_count = 0
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the code itself. I realized the issue was that I was initializing last_position as None, rather than 0.

ashen bloom
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(you can change the quotes to triple backticks for the multiple quotes)

"""
some multiline python
"""
cerulean pebble
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ah cool, good to know @ashen bloom . should I thread code blocks so they don't clutter up the chat?

ashen bloom
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backticks, the """ are part of the python I put inside 😉