ProffieOS 7.x pre-alpha discussion

NoSloppy · January 21, 2023, 8:11pm

baldusi:

I have a feature request. Since I’ve made the blade plug charging device work, I’ve found out I’m depending on the fact that in most of my installs I have Blade Detect wired. But many NPXL connectors don’t even have the necessary pins. And I depend on Blade ID for setting the correct LED spec and setting the charging preset. Thus, I was wondering if we could do one of the following additions to 7:

A) Add a #define to make the OS poll Blade ID every X time while the blade is retracted.
B) Add a & preset specifically for charging that polls Blade ID every second (or could be a parameter) when set.

The nice part of A) is that it would solve the problem of swapping blades without shutting off the hilt. I don’t have killswitches nor on/off on all my sabers.
The nice part of B is that you could disable motion sensors and many other power hungry parts.
Any thoughts?

Check this thread out:

Crazy idea of the day - Constant Blade ID monitoring ProffieOS

This was a PM, but putting it here for public input. Disclaimer - totally off-the-cuff experimental and likely might take up resources, be a bad idea in general, etc… but is working in testing by adding/removing any blade, even a NPXL PCB first (detects the change), then add a blade on top of that (2nd change detected) (They’re wired in parallel) No BLADE_ID resistors are installed anywhere. If you have bladein.wav, it will play that when detected. Used these defines: #define ENABLE_POWER_FOR_ID PowerPINS<bladePowerPin2, bladePowerPin3> #define BLADE_ID_CLASS SnapshotBladeID #define BLADE_ID_MONITORED Edited the prop’s void Loop() to start like this: BLADE_ID_CLASS_INTERNAL blade_id; void Loop() override { PropBase::Loop(); DetectTwist(); DetectShake(); #ifdef BLADE_ID_MONITORED if (millis() - last_blade_id_ > 2000) { STDOUT << "BLADE ID: OLD = "<< looped_blade_id_ << "\n"; blade_id.id(); last_blade_id_ = millis(); STDOUT << "BLADE ID: checked = "<< blade_id.id() << "\n"; if (looped_blade_id_ > blade_id.id() + 100 || looped_blade_id_ < blade_id.id() - 100) { STDOUT << "BLADE ID: DIFFERENT ***** do something here\n"; // beeper.Beep(0.5, 1000); FindBladeAgain(); SaberBase::DoBladeDetect(true); } looped_blade_id_ = blade_id.id(); } #endif Vec3 mss = fusor.mss(); .................. and initialized these at the bottom uint32_t last_blade_id_ = millis(); uint32_t looped_blade_id_ = 0; Might need to be tweaked per setup: ENABLE_POWER_FOR_ID’s bladePowerPins are your blade’s LED pads. The id() +/- values. The 2000 delay adjust to taste. The detected values set in the BladeConfig. Use something reasonable based on what it shows in Serial Monitor for “BLADE ID: checked” for each state. You can kill the beep if you use bladein.wav instead. Terrible?