RE: [misterhouse-users] pa speaker help

[Bruce W. <br...@mi...>]

I don't have a new weeder kit, and I couldn't tell from the example that
Craig sent in (in mh/code/examples), but I wonder if the problem is your
weeder IO's are in a digital input, rather than digital output state.  Maybe
ASC/ASF are condition it as Switch input signals and all you need to do is
send the command to init them to outputs?

To debug, I would setup a test command so you can try toggleing the speaker
directly.  Or maybe something as simple as this:

set $pa_bedroom TOGGLE if new_second 3;

Then play some anoying music and see if the spouse complains every 3 seconds
:)

Bruce

> Still having problems. I got the error fixed but mh still won't turn the
> speaker on with the speak command. It speaks but not to any room.
> I noticed
> when I run mh from a terminal window and do a read on the port,
> the string is
> reversed. It returns unmatched incoming serial data=AFL, when it
> should be
> ALF for off. Here is what I have setup. It is the new style weeder board.
> Thanks David
>
> items.pl
> ### Digital ports
>
> $digital_read_port_A = new  Serial_Item('ARP');
> $digital_read_results= new  Serial_Item('D');
> $digital_write_port_A = new  Serial_Item('AW');
>
> # digital items
> $frontdoor    = new  Serial_Item('ACH', OPENED);
> $frontdoor   -> add                 ('ACL', CLOSED);
> $frontdoor   -> add                 ('ASC', 'init');
> $frontdoor   -> add                 ('ARC', 'read');
>
> # pa items
> $pa_bedroom    = new  Serial_Item('AHF', ON);
> $pa_bedroom   -> add                 ('ALF', OFF);
> $pa_bedroom   -> add                 ('ASF','init');
> $pa_bedroom   -> add                 ('ARF','read');