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by mnfisher
Mon Apr 29, 2024 9:16 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Esp32 Tasks - communication and control
Replies: 0
Views: 40

Esp32 Tasks - communication and control

A work in progress. The esp32 makes it easy to have multiple tasks performing different functions. For example a task could update an LED display when required. There are several options to communicate data to a task - for example to change the LED colour. For example there are queues, semaphores an...
by mnfisher
Mon Apr 29, 2024 8:12 pm
Forum: Projects - Embedded
Topic: COMPONENT MACRO RESET TIMER
Replies: 3
Views: 51

Re: COMPONENT MACRO RESET TIMER

Something is going wrong with the PrintNumber - which will only show a 16 bit value. I did a few things. 1) I removed the ResetTimer and Added 'true' to the StartTimer to reset it. 2) I added an .x = GetRawCount into the loop in main (to check the value was actually changing) 3) Then - I added a con...
by mnfisher
Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:59 am
Forum: General
Topic: 9bit UART - Arduino Mega 2560
Replies: 9
Views: 139

Re: 9bit UART - Arduino Mega 2560

It does work - so I guess the 'hint' hasn't been updated. (As mentioned the component used to work with bytes) Note - Use the Rx interrupt - data has been received (so it should never timeout?) I don't know what timeout would return in this case (but if you only receive single character in the inter...
by mnfisher
Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:19 am
Forum: General
Topic: Do I need this pin? ST7789 DC pin?
Replies: 3
Views: 59

Re: Do I need this pin? ST7789 DC pin?

The display does use a D/C pin (to select data or command)
They have maybe missed it from the diagram?
by mnfisher
Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:10 am
Forum: General
Topic: 9bit UART - Arduino Mega 2560
Replies: 9
Views: 139

Re: 9bit UART - Arduino Mega 2560

Sorry - missed a '.' - I meant 0..511 (or 0 to 511) Which version of Flowcode are you using - the components used to only return a byte (8bit) - in version 10 (free !) - the Send/Receive Char take an int (16bit) of which they send/receive the appropriate number of bits... Did you manage to get my de...
by mnfisher
Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:18 pm
Forum: General
Topic: 9bit UART - Arduino Mega 2560
Replies: 9
Views: 139

Re: 9bit UART - Arduino Mega 2560

Note - could possibly have done the send and receive on the same Mega. I didn't think of it beforehand... I powered the second board from the first as I couldn't lay my hand on 2 of the Type A USB cables (though they are surely hiding somewhere) Windows terminal programs don't support 9 bit data (th...
by mnfisher
Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:43 pm
Forum: General
Topic: 9bit UART - Arduino Mega 2560
Replies: 9
Views: 139

Re: 9bit UART - Arduino Mega 2560

A quick demo of 9 bit comms using 2 Arduino Megas. One is the 'sender' (S) and one a 'receiver' (R) (I called it UART) (that echoes the received data to a PC via the USB comms UART) I connected RX1 to TX1 and TX1 to RX1 on boards 'S' and 'R' - also GND (essential) and 5v as I have the sender powered...
by mnfisher
Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:30 pm
Forum: General
Topic: 9bit UART - Arduino Mega 2560
Replies: 9
Views: 139

Re: 9bit UART - Arduino Mega 2560

... There is an issue - send and receive take a byte which is 8 bits, so some extra work needed..

- I might be wrong on this - looks like the functions now return an int.
by mnfisher
Sat Apr 27, 2024 9:10 pm
Forum: Tips & Tricks
Topic: ESP32 Compilation Warnings
Replies: 0
Views: 41

ESP32 Compilation Warnings

A little tip to make life easier. The output from the esp32 compiler is a 'little' verbose. It is possible to turn off some of the warnings. In your project directory/main Edit CMakeLists.txt At the end of the file add: target_compile_options(${COMPONENT_LIB} PRIVATE -Wno-unused-variable) target_com...
by mnfisher
Sat Apr 27, 2024 9:07 pm
Forum: General
Topic: ESP32 WS2812 LEDs (An alternative approach)
Replies: 0
Views: 56

ESP32 WS2812 LEDs (An alternative approach)

This is some alternative code for WS2812 LEDs running on the esp32. Rather than the RMT based component (I get issues with this being deprecated...) I tried two alternatives - using the i2s hardware where I got 'reasonable' results. LEDs would set but occasional glitches ( I think the T1L time I got...