[PD] pduino test patch: "old analog/digital controls"

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Thanks Hans for making this thing clear - I'll try to find an adequate solution for the rewritten pduino-help asap!

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On 11/03/2011 03:39 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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> That confusion originates from the Arduino numbering scheme itself, since it uses A0 for analog pins in analog mode, but then it uses a number when using the same pin for digital things.
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> I think one way to represent this might be to allow the use of A0-A7 pin names in addition to the numbers, but then the confusing thing would be that the analog messages would then be [analog 14 0.2352(.  So that's why I thought to try to use only the numbers, no A0-A7, and try to make that as understandable as possible.
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> On Nov 3, 2011, at 6:57 AM, olsen wrote:
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>> yo bonitos
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>> due to the pduino rewrite I've to reanimate this threat ;)
>> I would like to remove the ambiguity and confusion about this old and new way of enabling the analog pins.
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>> old way of enabling the analog 0 pin is sending the following to the arduino object:
>> [analogIns 0 1(
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>> enabling the same pin(analog 0) the new school way:
>> [pinMode 14 analog(
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>> is this correct? if so what's a bit byte confusing for people is that in the new way pin 14 equals the analog 0 pin - guess this is a peculiarity of firmata? isn't there a possability to use f.e. A0-A5 for adressing the analog pins?
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>> thanks for info&  salutis
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>> On 06/17/2011 10:52 AM, olsen wrote:
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>>> On 06/17/2011 12:24 AM, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:
>>>> On 06/16/2011 05:44 PM, olsen wrote:
>>>>> it's all in the
>>>>> arduino-help.pd by Gerda Strobl and Georg Holzmann!
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>>>> Which one???
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>>>> Not the one that is distributed together with [arduino] and [arduino-test] at http://at.or.at/hans/pd/objects.html,
>>>> right?
>>> yo it's in Pduino-0.5beta8 linked on this page
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>>>>> in the last subpatch [pd SWITCHING-INPUTS] you'll find the apropriate
>>>>> messages.
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>>>> There I find the same analogIns messages that are supposed to be the old ones (but are the only ones I've found that
>>>> work for analog pins with the latest version of Firmata)
>>> jep i agree they're the same - i think it's a matter of wrong denotation so due to my knowledge there's nothing like old
>>> and newer messages ->  the current 'contemporary' message for enabling the analog inputs is:
>>> [analogIns pinumber 1=on; 0=off(
>>> f.e. to enable analog pin 1:
>>> [analogIns 1 1(
>>> correct me if i'm wrong!
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>>>>> i don't know why this is commented with (optional)
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>>>> I must have another version of the help patch, as I don't see such a comment
>>> right behind the [pd SWITCHING-INPUTS] is a comment "<- example of switching inputs on and off (optional)"
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>>>> How are the messages you're talking about?
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>>>>> i guess it's a firmata peculiarity that you've explicit have to enable
>>>>> the analog pins as in arduino they are enabled by default - but correct
>>>>> me if i'm wrong.
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>>>> Yes, I guess what you have to explicitly enable is to have the firmware _send_ the values to the computer. It would be
>>>> undesirable to have a constant flood of values of all pins whether you use them or not.
>>> jep right so with firmata the analogIns have to be enabled explicitly to use them. i think the (optional) comment
>>> somehow makes it ambiguous. as told i'll try to consider this in the improvements we're working on!
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>>> salutis
>>> ø
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