According to Canada Post my Leonardos have arrived in town as of 8:00AM. It possible, though not probable, that was early enough for the mail carrier to have gotten the package before heading out so I may receive them today. Tomorrow for sure.
This time I'm leaving my actual rotator in the Dome (don't want to break more USB ports) and the leos will just have buttons etc added to them to simulate end switches etc.
With any luck the current iteration will be complete in the next two weeks. After that I'll look at an ASCOM local server setup so the RG11 can be used as a separate safety device with it's own driver. That'll also allow other goodies to be hung off the rotator (or shutter) with their own drivers too.
Awesome I should be home in MI on Wednesday night. Missing my gear.
I've spruced up a lot of things and have it almost ready to go. I have finally hit the right conditions where attempting to open/close the shutter "sticks" despite hitting the end switch. Seems to only happen when the command and hitting the end switch are very close together. Have some errands to do but now that I now what to look for I should get it sorted today.
512 for me has issues with opening past sensor, and not opening unless I manually move it away from the sensor first. Also if it opens (or closes) and stops at the sensor and you press the rocker switch to open or close MORE... it will and not stop. (smashing things). until I pull the power plug. Worries me as I'm usually remote. "STOP" seems to catch it remotely. But I fear the one time it doesn't. You seen anything like this Clive?
I have ordered two more Xbee series 1, should have them by thursday for the bench test units, currently I am loading the version 512 which now seems to be working ok. I am going to have test units with magnets and motors etc, we can pick up testing the xbee s2c's later as they do have better specs
No new download yet. Sorting out some XBee configuration issues. Trying to avoid making people use a separate config ino even though it only needs to be done once on brand new XBees.
any site of my issue when you setup your test bench? Is there a new download.
Started having problems with the rotator not initializing the xbee properly. I was anticipating some problems because if the XBee receives any data during the guard time (mandatory period of inactivity before it will go into command mode properly) or during the commanding phase it messes things right up.
So I wrote a separate configuration ino that will have to be loaded into each leo and used to write the XBee settings to non-volatile storage. This will speed up booting and make it immune to the problem described.
Just working with Clive who unknowingly bough Series 2 XBees which are quite different. Might be able to accommodate them if we can figure out how to configure them.
Phew. Turns out that by some Murphy inspired fluke both USB cables that I was using are no longer functional. Did a ton of searching but I found two functional ones so I have both leos up and talking to one another. Just soldering up the 8 buttons to simulate all the end switches, rain sensor, and manual buttons.
So much for optimism. Received the package and both Leos are defective. No serial ports showing up which means, at the very least, the serial port MCU was never programmed. If that wasn't programmed then mostly likely the main MCU wasn't either. Probably best if I order an ISP of some sort so it's only one way shipping delay rather than getting an RA number, shipping back (at my cost), then shipping the replacements (probably at my cost too). Then just hope the board wasn't programmed rather than dead.
2018/05/2308:29QUESNEL, BC Item out for delivery
Yippee! Should be in my mailbox by 11:00 (9:45 now).