Espruino 1v92 released

[gfwilliams]

Posted at 2017-04-19 by @gfwilliams

I've just released 1v92 - it's been a while coming, but there are now a huge amount of new features:

• Added Pin.toggle(), eg. LED1.toggle()

• Added DataView class

• Add Neopixel/WS281x/APA10x LED writing with require("neopixel").write - works on pretty much all devices

• A few fixes for potential crashes

• Fixed implicit casting to bool/number on ArrayBuffers (Does pinMode 'input' state place pin in tri-state mode for SPI multi device connectivity? #1030)

• Fix E.FFT output (enable magnitude when one array specified)

• JSON.parse now throws an exception if an incorrect value type is found (fix patreon sign did not appear under the avatar #1117)

• Pipe close event handlers now use 'this' arg - solves auto-closing pipe when piping from HTTP

• Increase max graphics size from 1023 to 32767

• Add Fat File System support to ESP32

• Fix File.read so that end of file triggers pipe.end event

• Fix precedence of 'void' keyword (Cascading Max7219 #1079)

• Pico/WiFi: Allow USB HID to work on Windows (from @nailxx)

• Puck.js: Now use 'high drive' mode for GPIOs - provides much more power output on pins

• Puck.js: tweak IR duty cycle, with high drive GPIO the Infrared range is now ~3x more

• Puck.js: Allow Puck.IR to take pins for an external IR LED (Capturing multiple IR Codes #927)

• Puck.js: Allow arbitrary NFC data to be specified (Programming the Ublox NEO-6M GPS configuration - is this possible? #1021)

• Puck.js: Allow multiple advertising packets to be set at once with NRF.setAdvertising

• Puck.js: Add 'properties' object to BluetoothRemoteGATTCharacteristic

• Puck.js: Perform BLE write without response if that is what is required

• Puck.js: Add BluetoothRemoteGATTCharacteristic.startNotifications (Spike free switching of pin mode from input to output #959)

• Puck.js: Added BluetoothDevice.gattserverdisconnected event

• Puck.js: Report back reason codes for BLE disconnect

• Puck.js: char.readValue now returns DataView to be more Web Bluetooth compliant (Active BLE connections within Home Assistant? #1091)

• Puck.js: Respond to conn_params update request, fix puck-puck disconnection after ~65 sec (Serial vs IDE Console #1089)

• Puck.js: Change connection params for central mode so NRF.setLowPowerConnection affects connection speed

• Puck.js: Correct reading if using analogWrite to red LED and then using Puck.light()

• Puck.js: stop app_timer NRF_ERROR_INVALID_PARAM errors (trying to sleep for too little time)

• Puck.js: Don't get stuck in 'HID Busy' state if a HID send failed

• Puck.js: Allow services to be advertised (fix 433MHz RF communication module #996)

• ESP8266: Add Wifi.setAPIP() and Wifi.setIP

• ESP8266: Add i2c clock stretch (Have we lost WebIDE with TCP/IP? No, there is a workaroud #1097)

• ESP8266: Add ESP8266.deepSleep(micros, option) (When is the next video chat? #1102)

It's available from the usual places - if you have an official Espruino Board you can use the Web IDE's update feature, and with Puck.js you can use a phone: http://www.espruino.com/Puck.js#firmware-updates

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2017-04-20 by MobiTech

Does the Puck support Central/Peripheral mode? I have read that there are some problems connecting Android devices because they do not support Central mode. Could the Puck work as a Gatt Server and is further configuration required? That should allow more compatibility.

A nice update, really interesting functions.

[gfwilliams]

Posted at 2017-04-20 by @gfwilliams

Yes, Puckjs will do both. When you connect to Puck.js to program it Puck.js is being a GATT Server.

It'd be worth checking out the Puck.js Bluetooth LE intro for more information: http://www.espruino.com/About+Bluetooth+LE

If you have other general questions about Puck.js, please can you ask them in a separate thread though? It'll help to use this one purely for questions about the 1v92 release itself.

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2017-04-21 by MobiTech

Thank you.

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2017-05-08 by ConorONeill

I've just tried this update from both nRF Toolbox and nRF Connect on Android and in both cases it results in Puck.js flashing all three LEDs. I can't connect any more. Am I missing something obvious? I've tried various sequences of battery/button but to no avail.

[gfwilliams]

Posted at 2017-05-08 by @gfwilliams

Had you upgraded from a 'beta' firmware (eg, not just 1v91)?

Please could you try this? http://forum.espruino.com/conversations/303637/#13590078

So downgrading to 1v91 and the running those commands to clear out some of the other flash memory

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2017-05-08 by ConorONeill

Thanks Gordon. I'm pretty sure I was on stock 1v91. I followed your steps above and it's working fine now.

[gfwilliams]

Posted at 2017-05-09 by @gfwilliams

Great, thanks! Glad you got it sorted!

Very strange though - I tested the upgrade from 1v91 every way I could think of before the release. If anyone else has this problem, please can they let me know? We could try and dump the contents of Flash so I can figure out what happened.

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2017-06-16 by Boydy

I had the 3 light issue with this code loaded going from 1v91 -> 1v92 if that helps:

var kb = require("ble_hid_keyboard");
var on = false;

function onInit() {
  NRF.setServices(undefined, { hid : kb.report });
  setWatch(btnPressed, BTN, {edge:"rising",repeat:true,debounce:50});
  flashLED();
}

function btnPressed() {
  kb.tap(kb.KEY["c"], 0);
}

var flashLED = function() {
  on = !on;
  LED1.write(on);
  var interval;
  if(on) {
    interval = 5;
  } else {
    interval = 3000;
  }
  setTimeout(flashLED, interval);
};

[gfwilliams]

Posted at 2017-06-16 by @gfwilliams

Please can we stick to discussing this on your original post? http://forum.espruino.com/conversations/306396/#comment13693521