Phidgets Plugin

[deltabi]

Originally Posted by Zorro

Update available. Who's the first to figure what I did...

I suppose you're referring to the temp info in the main screen...
Can a plugin constantly show informations like that on the (main) screen? I thought that the upper and lower part of the screen was managed by Centrafuse itself. Please clarify this..

Regards,
Diego.-

[Zorro]

Originally Posted by deltabi

I suppose you're referring to the temp info in the main screen...
Can a plugin constantly show informations like that on the (main) screen? I thought that the upper and lower part of the screen was managed by Centrafuse itself. Please clarify this..

You're right, a plugin usually can't do this but the Phidgets can. A lot of magic and a bit knowledge of how Windows works made it possible

I wrote a suggestion to David how to extend the CF skins for being able to do this. He promised to take a look at this, but as you know, he's a busy man.This is just a proof of concept and a workaround to "inject" information on the main screen. To accomplish this you'll need VD2 (well, editing the main skin manually will do it also) and the plugin to evaluate this specific information.

[deltabi]

Ok, thanks. I agree CF has to be more flexible in this particular area: customizing the main screen could be useful in a thousand situations.

About the temperature sensors "affair" I'm thinking about writing a simple plugin to integrate the K145 Kitsrus kit: this plugin could then make available to others plugin the data read from the sensors using the CF_getPluginData method, like you did with your nice Phidget Plugin.

I just have to resume my programming skills...

[Zorro]

Originally Posted by deltabi

Ok, thanks. I agree CF has to be more flexible in this particular area: customizing the main screen could be useful in a thousand situations.

About the temperature sensors "affair" I'm thinking about writing a simple plugin to integrate the K145 Kitsrus kit: this plugin could then make available to others plugin the data read from the sensors using the CF_PluginData method, like you did with your nice Phidget Plugin.

I just have to resume my programming skills...

I'd like to encourage you to do so. I don't even have concerns if you implement the exact same syntax in your CF_pluginData interface (as far as possible). The more compatibility the better.
You could start off with VD2. It'll generate the framework for you so you can focus on your plugin.

If you make your plugin with C#, I can send you the code to "inject" the temperatures as I did (please understand that I don't feel like porting it into different languages).
However, this should be seen as a temporary solution unless David comes up with a decent interface for doing something similar.

[roan]

Thats sooo coool.

THX Zorro!

[Zorro]

Originally Posted by MarcelP

Sehr schöne Arbeit, ich glaube ich hole mir auch so ein Phidget!

Kann ich dir nur empfehlen

[deltabi]

Originally Posted by Zorro

I'd like to encourage you to do so. I don't even have concerns if you implement the exact same syntax in your CF_pluginData interface (as far as possible). The more compatibility the better.
You could start off with VD2. It'll generate the framework for you so you can focus on your plugin.

If you make your plugin with C#, I can send you the code to "inject" the temperatures as I did (please understand that I don't feel like porting it into different languages).
However, this should be seen as a temporary solution unless David comes up with a decent interface for doing something similar.

Thanks for your offer, Zorro. I'll let you know.
I hope I'll be able to dedicate some time to the plugin development.

[Zorro]

Updated, see first post.
That's the last one for now. Going to Italy for a couple of days, so don't mind if I'm not responding to your posts right away.

[WuNgUn]

Awesome stuff...

Now can someone integrate a plugin for controlling a Phidgets 30A motor controller and 4 X servo motor controler so I can control my HVAC?

I can handle the hardware part of it, but I don't even know where to begin in respect to Centrfuse plugin control...

[Zorro]

Originally Posted by WuNgUn

Awesome stuff...

Now can someone integrate a plugin for controlling a Phidgets 30A motor controller and 4 X servo motor controler so I can control my HVAC?

I can handle the hardware part of it, but I don't even know where to begin in respect to Centrfuse plugin control...

The Phidgets Servo is already integrated through an Extender. How you would use it from PhiPL is described in the ServoReadme file in subfolder Extenders of the Phidgets plugin.
I'll take a look into the 30A motor control soon but I don't promise anything since I don't have one for testing.