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teal charm Jan 7, 2025, 1:29 AM

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Ok. Let's pull this into a thread to make it easier to follow

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It looks a bit like the Microsoft Surface Dial

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Cool!

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Where is your code at so far? Do you have it scrolling at all?

placid hatch Jan 7, 2025, 1:31 AM

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I've got the "normal" scrolling working so far, that's all though

placid hatch Jan 7, 2025, 1:32 AM

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teal charm It looks a bit like the Microsoft Surface Dial

I've seen that, do you know if it can also be used for scrolling?

teal charm Jan 7, 2025, 1:32 AM

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Yes, scrolling is its main feature

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I think it can also zoom and do a couple other things, but no CAD integration

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But you were going to make something cool, and who am I to stop you?

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The dial doesn't make it easy to adjust the scroll step size

placid hatch Jan 7, 2025, 1:34 AM

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teal charm But you were going to make something cool, and who am I to stop you?

Definitely want to make my own 🙂

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https://learn.adafruit.com/custom-hid-devices-in-circuitpython/radial-controller found this article about Radial Controllers

Custom HID Devices in CircuitPython

Create and use your own HID devices in Circuitpython

teal charm Jan 7, 2025, 1:36 AM

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Are you on Windows?

placid hatch Jan 7, 2025, 1:36 AM

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Also tried that but it only seemed to open this dialog

placid hatch Jan 7, 2025, 1:36 AM

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teal charm Are you on Windows?

yep

teal charm Jan 7, 2025, 1:36 AM

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Ok. That's the menu which selects the dial function

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You would normally get there by clicking the dial

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My wife has a dial but hasn't used it in a while, so bear with me

placid hatch Jan 7, 2025, 1:38 AM

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Seems like it has quite a high resolution

teal charm Jan 7, 2025, 1:42 AM

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Yeah, the docs say you can play with that value

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So what isn't working?

placid hatch Jan 7, 2025, 1:44 AM

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Haven't really played around with that too much because I didn't know it also supported scrolling.

teal charm Jan 7, 2025, 1:45 AM

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What's your hardware like? The example expects a quadrature encoder and a button

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If you don't have the encoder hooked up correctly, it wouldn't detect the rotations

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You could print out the position to see

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Probably in the if delta !=0 case so it doesn't spam unhelpful info

placid hatch Jan 7, 2025, 1:49 AM

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im trying to get it to work right now

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i'll let you know how it goes

teal charm Jan 7, 2025, 1:49 AM

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Ok

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Now I need to go dig up an encoder and try it out 🤔

placid hatch Jan 7, 2025, 1:55 AM

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I've gotten it to work before but it doesn't seem to be working right now

teal charm Jan 7, 2025, 1:56 AM

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Alright. Did you print out the position every time delta is not zero?

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That would be helpful to see where the issue is

placid hatch Jan 7, 2025, 1:57 AM

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Just got a button connected for now

teal charm Jan 7, 2025, 1:58 AM

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Oh, I see. It's possible to simulate an encoder with two buttons

placid hatch Jan 7, 2025, 1:58 AM

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The button is working but nothing else seems to be happening

placid hatch Jan 7, 2025, 1:58 AM

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teal charm Oh, I see. It's *possible* to simulate an encoder with two buttons

Well it's just for testing right now

teal charm Jan 7, 2025, 1:58 AM

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Ok. You just want to see if it scrolls, before you go buy an encoder?

placid hatch Jan 7, 2025, 1:59 AM

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I'll wire up the encoder once i got the basics down

teal charm Jan 7, 2025, 1:59 AM

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Alright. set delta = 1 right above the last if

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it will work, and probably very quickly

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maybe a delay is in order

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1 second, perhaps?

placid hatch Jan 7, 2025, 2:00 AM

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while True:
    if not btn.value:
        if not last_btn:
            last_btn = True
            radial_controller.press()
            print("Button pressed")
    else:
        if last_btn:
            last_btn = False
            print("Button released")
            radial_controller.release()```
I've got this code right now which should show the menu

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also tried radial_controller.rotate() which also doesn't seem to do anything

teal charm Jan 7, 2025, 2:01 AM

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yeah, radial_controller.rotate() needs an argument of 20 or more

placid hatch Jan 7, 2025, 2:02 AM

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It's not doing anything

teal charm Jan 7, 2025, 2:02 AM

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so try radial_controller.rotate(100)

placid hatch Jan 7, 2025, 2:02 AM

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Nothing is happening

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Well the button is working, it's being logged in the console

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It has also been working when i tried it a few days ago

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I'll try to restart my pc

teal charm Jan 7, 2025, 2:04 AM

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Yeah, super weird

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That's a better solution that continually scrolling though.

placid hatch Jan 7, 2025, 2:06 AM

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Could be, the scrolling the video seemed to Work really well though

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It's showing up in the settings atleast

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still nothing

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Probably just one small thing that i overlooked or something like that ._.

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I'll try to get it to work tomorrow

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Thanks for your help g_happy

teal charm Jan 7, 2025, 7:02 AM

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Do you actually have it on the scroll setting?

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Maybe it’s doing something that doesn’t affect most apps

placid hatch Jan 7, 2025, 12:42 PM

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Not quite sure, radial_controller.click() should still open the menu though, right?

teal charm Jan 7, 2025, 6:11 PM

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the press? Yeah

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I grabbed an encoder and am trying it too. Unfortunately the rotaryio.IncrementalEncoder isn't picking up my turns

placid hatch Jan 7, 2025, 6:20 PM

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I think it was working for me

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Have you connected the right pins?

placid hatch Jan 7, 2025, 6:41 PM

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I've completely removed the device from windows and restarted my pc and now it seems to be working 😅

placid hatch Jan 7, 2025, 7:19 PM

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Connected it like this, seems to be working great

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