Teletype firmware 2.0.0 (released 18th July 2017)

Monome
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Jeeze, @sam, two babies in one week! Congrats, and thanks for your hard work!

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@jlmitch5 and @capleniz thanks for your input, Iā€™ve opened up a new PR for the PDF tweaks, the Latex errors were not just the font paths, but also missing new lines at the end of the latex_preamble file.

Thanks everyone for the kind wordsā€¦

Continuing on from what @bpcmusic and @scanner_darkly mentioned about the under the hood stuffā€¦

One of the biggest invisible things thatā€™s changed is the modularisation of the front end / UI code. This should hopefully make it a lot easier to tweak or add new display modes to the Teletype.

Before I share some of the ideas Iā€™ve had, firstly the USB loading and saving code does need to be rewritten before much else can be done. Iā€™ve sketched out how I think it should be done (separate the pure parts from the impure, I can talk about it more if someone wants to volunteer to do the work?), once thatā€™s done I think we should reduce the number of scene description lines to 16 (from 32) to free up some more flash.

Otherwise interesting new featuresā€¦

  • Increase the number of pattern from 4 to 8. The pattern editor code is on itā€™s own in one file, so it should be quite straightforward to do this. Weā€™d probably want to add a permanent set of row headers if we did and it would look a bit too much like a spreadsheetā€¦ (An extra 4 patterns is almost exactly the same amount of flash as reducing the scene description by 16 lines.)

  • A settings mode. Just to allow you to make some global behavioural changes, ideas include:

    • PARAM, IN and CV calibration data
    • Remap CAPSLOCK to CTRL (this one is just for me!)
    • Switch A, B, C and D to defaulting to 0, rather than 1-4

    Personally, only the first has real value, and in general I donā€™t like the idea of too much choice with these things.

  • An actually UI for USB disk load and saving, maybe an ā€œare you sureā€ prompt, or even individual loading and saving of scenes. (Remember we can only use the param knob and the front panel button as the keyboard will be disconnected!)

Naturally I have no idea when Iā€™d have time to do any of these things (if I ever do at all). But Iā€™d be more than willing to help out with advice and guidance if anyone else wishes to volunteer.

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Big +1 to that!!!

This would also be great! Also a way to update the firmware from an USB stick would be great, but I guess that would involve a lot more coding, wouldnā€™t it?

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So excited to try this out! As I consolidate my setup, the TT is becoming more and more central, and these new tweaks will help a lot.

Also, congrats on the amazing work from the community that went into this, and into maintaining and improving the whole Monome related module suite.

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Watching from the sideline. All this work is truly impressive.

Iā€™m an occasional TT user and I probably wouldnā€™t utilize a fraction of what itā€™s capable of. But Iā€™m so fascinated by the concept that I purchased a used one a while back. And Iā€™m super impressed with what you wonderful humans come up with.

Hi fives and hugs! //Carl-Mikael

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That would be cool wouldnā€™t it. I think itā€™s technically possible butā€¦ not that straightforward. The Teletype usually executes itā€™s code from flash ROM, but if weā€™re about to overwrite the flash we canā€™t run code from there any longer! So weā€™d need to copy some code to RAM to run the updater, which isnā€™t as easy as it sounds.

The other alternative is to try to add a second bootloader for flashing from USB stick (the first bootloader allows for flashing from USB cable and canā€™t be overwritten by end users). This is probably easier for us to do as the Aleph uses a similar technique except it uses SD cards instead of USB sticks.

Anyway, I donā€™t think itā€™s something that Iā€™d want to do!

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I donā€™t have a Teletype (yet) but this kind of things make me want one even more :slight_smile:.

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This is fantastic!
Thank you to all involved: looking forward to digging in!

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very excited to dig into this. thx to all who made this happen, wow.

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On vacation right now, first time to dive into TT 2.0.0 ā€“ what can I say? This is awesome, such a huge leap, thank you so much for making all this happen!

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I just updated today to V2. Backed up my presets before updated. After rebooting i tried installing my old presets. Read/Write works but Teletype overwrites and wiped my existing presets (i still have them saved on my computer so not 100% lost). Any workarounds for this? Seems like Teletype is writing first to usb before reading the usb.

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did you delete the ā€œsā€ at the end of the filename? reading works only if the file name is as such : tt??.txt

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No i didnā€™t and now i have and it works fine! Thanks for that. Much appreciated. Saved me alot of time having to retype everything :slight_smile:

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hello, i have two request with teletype, two things i miss a lot since i used it :slightly_frowning_face:

with white whale, i would love to have a read position script, thereā€™s actually only ā€œcue to postionā€ (WW.POS) . with that, you will be able to synchronise trackers positions with white whale positions, So more CV OUT to white whale, itā€™s just an exempleā€¦

and with ansible, i would love to be able to change the Edit position of LEVEL, like when you push buton 1 on the module.
actualy thereā€™s only a read postion with LV.POS. So with that new script, you will be able to use walk instead of pushing this small button 1 on the module.

is it diifuculte to add thoes ? i donā€™t have any skill on codingā€¦
thanks