five.Led.Digits / edison-io / HT16K33 / 14-segment

[bethanysciences]

Hello Rick - having a great time with your Johnny Five modules on Intel Edisons - I love the power. Got it all running great with the seven segment backpacks - also have a bunch of 14-segment ones but they do not work. Below is the code I use to drive one 7-seg for time and 1 for temp.

As I said I have a bunch of these - if you had any ideas about updating the code for the 14-seg packs I would be happy to test for you.

Here is my code below - with the 7-segs it works - swapping out the the time 7-seg pack for a 14-seg - at 22:31 - I get the following

This might help...

LED 1: 2 - middle right segment not lit
LED 2: 2 - middle right segment not lit
LED 3: Blinking 8
LED 4: 3 - middle right segment not lit.

Thanks very much.

var moment = require("moment");
var five = require("johnny-five");
var Edison = require("edison-io");
var weather = require('openweathermap');
var board = new five.Board({io: new Edison()});
var txoffset = -5;
var minutes = 2, wxCheck = minutes * 60 * 1000;
var wx_now = {APPID: "3fa4460cd24f55062be92d87ff0be09f", units:'imperial',lang:'en',id:'4180439'}
var temp = 95;

board.on("ready", function() {
    var HHmm =    new five.Led.Digits({
        addresses: [0x75], 
        controller: "HT16K33",
    });
    var toggle = 0;
    var tempdsp = new five.Led.Digits({
        addresses: [0x77], 
        controller: "HT16K33",
    });
    weather.now(wx_now,function(err,data)
        {temp=Math.round(data.main.temp); 
        tempdsp.print(temp + "F");
        console.log("Temperature " + temp);
    });
    setInterval(function() {
        weather.now(wx_now,function(err,data)
            {temp=Math.round(data.main.temp); 
            tempdsp.print(temp + "F");
        });
    } , wxCheck);
    setInterval(function() {
        HHmm.print(time(toggle ^= 1));
    }, 1000);
});

function time(showColon) {
  var display = "    " + moment().utcOffset(txoffset).format(
    showColon ? "HH:mm" : "HH mm"
  );
  return display.slice(-5);
}

[rwaldron]

The LED components:

• Led.Digits
• Led.Matrix

Are currently being completely overhauled to eliminate constraints imposed by legacy porting efforts. I'll keep you posted here.

[rwaldron]

I will also attempt to reproduce this in the meantime—maybe we can get you resolved before that work is complete.

[bethanysciences]

Cool - happy to help anyway I can sir.

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I will also attempt to reproduce this in the meantime—maybe we can get you resolved before that work is complete.

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[rwaldron]

Can you link me to the exact component that you're using? Thanks!!

[bethanysciences]

Sure. Here you go sir.

https://www.adafruit.com/products/1911

Appreciate you cycling back. Have a great weather display working with the numerical version. So ready to test your code at any time.

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Can you link me to the exact component that you're using? Thanks!!

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[rwaldron]

Ah, ok. So I can confirm that these are indeed not yet supported. (Also, I'm really sorry for the delay in getting back to you—life is busy :\ ) Presently, only the 7-segment 4-digit HT16K33 units are supported

[bethanysciences]

Sure I inferred that Rick. I see you work pretty closely with Adafruit - do yo have a pipeline of these? If I had one sent to you would that help? You can’t expect to finance this all yourself, right?

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Ah, ok. So I can confirm that these are indeed not yet supported. (Also, I'm really sorry for the delay in getting back to you—life is busy :\ ) Presently, only the 7-segment 4-digit HT16K33 units are supported

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[rwaldron]

Sure I inferred that Rick.

Sorry, I'm not trying to be deliberately dense... balancing a lot of plates, sometimes I post because I don't want reporters to think I've forgotten about them. Sorry about that :\

I see you work pretty closely with Adafruit - do yo have a pipeline of these?

I actually don't work with them at all, I don't think they've ever even acknowledged that this project exists. I have to buy these just like everyone else.

[bethanysciences]

Sorry to take so long to get back to you Rick. I have no affiliation with Adafruit at all except but a lot from them.

I have a few of these displays lying around - very happy to send one to you - to keep

And - since you seem to be much more embedded in the industry than I am - if you do have me send you the display - would you possibly have a pipeline into a charity or program that could use alot of surplus Arduino type gear? If you do I could send it all to you along with the display to dispose of how you see fit. I'm just a working stiff messes with this stuff to wind down. Not involved locally at all.

Thanks
Bob.

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Sure I inferred that Rick.

Sorry, I'm not trying to be deliberately dense... balancing a lot of plates, sometimes I post because I don't want reporters to think I've forgotten about them. Sorry about that :\

I see you work pretty closely with Adafruit - do yo have a pipeline of these?

I actually don't work with them at all, I don't think they've ever even acknowledged that this project exists. I have to buy these just like everyone else.

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[rwaldron]

Thanks for the offer—I've actually purchased one of these and it was delivered a few days ago, I just haven't had time to work on it (busy preparing for all the Tessel 2 boards to ship)

[bethanysciences]

OK - will stand by when you get the time to test Rick.

Also any ideas about all of the surplus components I have?

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Thanks for the offer—I've actually purchased one of these and it was delivered a few days ago, I just haven't had time to work on it (busy preparing for all the Tessel 2 boards to ship)

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[dtex]

Hi @bethanysciences ,

Johnny-Five contributors and maintainers are loathe to close issues where someone has a need. We don't want anyone to ever feel that we don't care, but we just haven't gotten to this feature yet. Rather than leave it languishing as an open issue we have created a Requested Features page and added your request for the HT16K33 Backpack there.

[monteslu]

Old issue, but the 14 segment display has been supported for a while now with this library: https://github.com/louiemontes/node-led