#211

@scanner_darkly For me, I think keyboard was connected and not in grid control mode. I will try leaving it on again.

#212

iā€™ve posted the updated shortcuts for the grid visualizer here: https://github.com/scanner-darkly/teletype/wiki/GRID-VISUALIZER

iā€™ll update the video as well when i get a chance, since it still references the old Ctrl shortcuts.

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#213

Im in a bit of a pickle and @facetimecontinuum said it best in the Ansible Earthsea thread when he wrote:

"Im a bit embarrassed to ask you to walk me through this considering how much time and effort youā€™ve put into this project butā€¦ Im struggling with the hex file. I know basically nothing beyond the most basic functions of a computer so iā€™m most certainly missing something (many things) iā€™m on a mac by the way.

I did a few quick searches in the forum and the wider internet and it seems (perhaps) a zip file with the flash command would help?

I have successfully updated ansible firmware in the past with a command file.

iā€™m not confident that im using these terms correctly so again I apologize for asking you to hold my hand through this"

Im having a hard time finding a file type that Iā€™m familiar with.
Can someone please point me in the right direction - whether its somewhere to learn about the .hex file or possibly another file that I overlooked?
Thank you so much!

#214

so first step, download one of the official release zip files. when you unzip it you should have the command you need. all good so far. now, replace the teletype.hex file that was packaged in that zip file with the one from the release candidate. make sure that it is named teletype.hex. Finish up by running that command.

in short, the .command file is agnostic about the contents of teletype.hex, it just wants a file named such to be in the same folder.

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#215

Holy Mackerel, thank you so much!
i . am . so . excited . for . this!

Beyond basic internet searches, computers go beyond me but im trying to learn!
Tons of appreciation sending your way.

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#216

@alanza - thanks for helping with this!
for future beta/rc releases iā€™ll make sure to include the update command.

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#217

letā€™s see if this fixes the screensaver issuesā€¦ also added a fix for PARAM returning 0 when used in the init script and IN and PARAM being reset to 0 after INIT.DATA (thanks to @rikrak for finding these!).

release candidate 3:

teletype.hex
teletype.zip

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#218

Is there anything in particular youā€™d like to have tested at this point? Or is it more do what youā€™re going to do and report any problems if they come up?

Do the grid ops for XYP and GOL work at this point? They say work in progress so I wasnā€™t sure if they were going in to 2.3. Was thinking about having a go with the XYP.

#219

Has anyone else has been able to update to 2.3 release candidate 3? For some reason the update command just exits for me.

Other teletype.hex versions update with no problems, so it doesnā€™t seem like itā€™s the .command file or the USB connectionā€¦ :thinking:

#220

iā€™d say both, although the new fixes/features have a higher chance of having bugs in them, so would be good to give them more attention.

planning to add them in a future version. there is an op for x/y pad but itā€™s not finished, so itā€™s not included in any of the docs.

line ending differences between unix/mac/windows are a pain in the neckā€¦ can you give this one a try?
teletype.zip (159.6 KB)

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#221

Thanks for the quick fix, this one works!

#222

Once youā€™ve got the docs working locally, you can type make release in the root of the teletype folder to build a zip file with everything included. Saved me loads of time when I was constantly uploading new versions of releases.

#223

the problem is the line endings conversion. make will include the local copy so itā€™ll have windows line endings and iā€™ll still need to update it manually. i need to look into my git settings so that it doesnā€™t convert (i use notepad++ which can be configured for whatever) but i had some issues when trying to do that with a repo that was already cloned.

#224

So I did encounter some kind of unexpected event. This was in 2.3 RC1. I donā€™t know that it was actually a crash so I will describe.

I had a couple of lines each in Init and 2 scripts. Init script created a few faders and buttons (G.BTX and G.FDX). Script 2 was the specified script for the faders, and I had it up on the screen. There were no other hardware ops in place. Script 2 was just setting some variables so I could see what values the faders were producing.

I had script 2 up on the screen and unplugged the qwerty and plugged in the grid. It had been working fine previously, but this time It didnā€™t light up or respond. So I plugged the qwerty back in and it didnā€™t respond either. Tried a couple of swaps - same result. Then I plugged in a USB drive. The Teletype switched over to the live variables display. That was the last response I could get out of it.

After a power cycle all was fine again. Havenā€™t reproduced it since, but thought Iā€™d log it.

Iā€™ll now upgrade to RC3.

#225

Also, not sure if this is a bug or a pebcak. Using 2.3 RC 3 now.

#I
G.FDX 1 8 0 8 1 0 3 2 1 4

#2
X G.FDRI
Y SCALE 0 16383 0 7 G.FDRV

Setting the a fader to each of 8 possible values yields Y of:

0 0 1 2 3 4 5 7

I was expecting:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Edit:

Y SCALE 0 16383 0 7 G.FDRV

gives the expected result, though the fader max seems to be 16383.

#227

it shouldnā€™t have. what happens if you move the update command from the previous release into this folder and run it? my understanding is it should work fine if you do

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#228

I just saw your suggestion a few posts up, Iā€™ll try that with the current 2.2 release thatā€™s worked for me in the past. Thanks!

Edit: That worked!

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#229

i have a guess at what mightā€™ve caused it, and some changes in RC3 might address that.

this line is the same as above - is it supposed to be different?
iā€™ll take a look at why it scales this way. as a side note you can also use G.FDRN instead, it gives you fader value in ā€œbuttonsā€.

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#230

Yes, sorry, 16383 should say 16320 in the edit.

#231

I spent a lot of time with 2.3 RC 3 yesterday. Everything I tried worked as expected. Let me say again how utterly fantastic and cool all of the 2.3 additions are and again express my thanks to all the contributors!

The only thing Iā€™m noticing is that there still seems to be something funny related to hot connecting the grid to teletype. I havenā€™t repeated what I encountered earlier, which was the teletype completely freezing. But maybe 1 out of every 15 times when I disconnected the grid now, the teletype seems to slow way down. Power cycle brings it back to normal. Also possible that itā€™s something about my script, which Iā€™ve now posted in grid exchange thread.

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