Re: [Firmata-devel] digitalIns and analogIns messages still needed?

[Shigeru K. <kot...@ya...>]

Hi Hans,

> Instead I am thinking that if you wanted to turn off the reporting of
> data from a pin, you'd just switch it to output mode.  The question
> is, should this be handled in StandardFirmata, or in the host software
> implementations?

If you don't mind making StandardFirmata a little bit bigger, the
former approach will make developing libraries easy. At current
moment, only a few libraries support full functions of
StandardFirmata. I hope that more library developers will come by
lowering the threshold of development.


Best,
Shigeru


On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <ha...@at...> wrote:
>
> I was just thinking of a way to make using Firmata easier. Now that
> there are multiple pinmodes in Firmata, I was thinking we could make
> the pinMode message also do the "report analog pin"/"report digital
> port" part.  Right now, pinMode sets up the library and pinMode() in
> Arduino land, then the "report pin/port" message actually turns on the
> sending of the data to the host computer.
>
> Instead I am thinking that if you wanted to turn off the reporting of
> data from a pin, you'd just switch it to output mode.  The question
> is, should this be handled in StandardFirmata, or in the host software
> implementations?
>
> .hc
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