I have recently had some great help from the community to get setup to deploy; having had a number of headaches to get to this stage.
I am now connecting the various components I purchased and working through learning how to use them.
What I am finding is in a lot of cases no documentation and no examples even in the discontinued items.
So far
LED Strip - done
Lightsensor - done
Temp&Humidity - cannot find anything on this
Relay16 - I believe I can understand the properties and the wiring of the relays. But there are two screw terminals at the end of the board; what are these; do these independent power?
I have looked at that … not something I have a great deal of knowledge … but I assume from it and from the terminals on the board that it requires an independent 5v power supply?
It would be great if GHI had done a simple paragraph on each to describe the use of and a short example solution.
Thank you … I design, build and program machine control system running sometimes with 400 amps … and I am still alive.
My knowledge at a lower level is not as good as it is with industrial controls PLC etc
The 12v is underneath the capacitor so I could not see it … but you are right voltage is dangerous, so why is there not a little more information on this product and some of the others ???
So I am now starting out with this; so how is a newbie supposed to have to delve into the drivers … I have found the developer guide for this one …
I bought several of everything to try and learn with … so for example I am now trying to use the TB10 breakout board … I assume I can use this to connect my analog devices to the board. But I cannot find any documentation on how to use it at the software level and/or the hardware level … which pins can be assigned to which type; solution example?
Second, you might need to know what pins are connected to the mainboard you’re using - you’ll go to the schematics for that, if necessary.
Third, in a Gadgeteer app you access pins with a methodology like this code… this code grabs socket #3 and grabs pins 3, 4, 5, and 8 from that socket.
MultiIO = GT.Socket.GetSocket(3, true, null, "Multi");
btn1_Engage_Rly = new InputPort(MultiIO.ReservePin(Gadgeteer.Socket.Pin.Three, null), true, Port.ResistorMode.PullUp);
btn2_StartStop = new InputPort(MultiIO.ReservePin(Gadgeteer.Socket.Pin.Four, null), true, Port.ResistorMode.PullUp);
btn3_Event = new InputPort(MultiIO.ReservePin(Gadgeteer.Socket.Pin.Five, null), true, Port.ResistorMode.PullUp);
Relay_Control = new OutputPort(MultiIO.ReservePin(Gadgeteer.Socket.Pin.Eight, null), false);
In a non-Gadgeteer app you just use the pin enumerations that the SDK provides.
Hi Brett, thank you I will try this shortly. Where is the best place to find out the purpose of each parameter. What would be an example for analog read?
Looking at my objectives, I need to extend the sockets, I have an Ap5 hub extending the sockets, is there anything I have to specifically do to assign or find out the socket numbers on the hub?
Hi Brett, Maybe I need to avoid using drivers and work at the lower level as your code above shows; however GetSocket … I note that all sockets have a unique code in their properties … can I use this somehow to find a socket?? In otherwords; if I havwe hub … how can I find the socket numbers of these?
That’s a useful link and book marked … I cannot confess to being competent enough to understand it.
When I debug in VS how can I set a break point in this so I can step through its function; I assume I can then watch how it works and therefore understand how it works?