lesthegrngo Posted April 26, 2020 Posted April 26, 2020 (edited) Guys, next on my to-do list is the altimeter gauge In theory it is just a gauge that moves the pointer depending on the output, but clearly it is not as simple as that. I have tried to splice in the reference code into a sketch, then run a gauge using that, but no matter what I do, once the gauge has finished its self test it stops and never moves. I have tried it is a gauge with a stepper that has the stop pin removed, and one with the stop pin. I know the stepper functions fine because if I load any other sketch, it acts normally. However whatever way I use to try and get the altimeter pointer to move, I get nothing, so clearly it is expecting something that I am not understanding Has anyone dealt with this? Cheers Les Edited April 27, 2020 by lesthegrngo
lesthegrngo Posted April 27, 2020 Author Posted April 27, 2020 I got this working. The logic in the BIOS reference seemed the same as other gauges, so I set up a sketch that read the output and displayed it on the LCD screen, which confirmed a numerical output from 0 to 65535. That matched what I was seeing from other gauges I deleted everything and started completely from new with a new sketch, and now it behaves as it should. I don't know what I did wrong, because the sketch was accepted by IDE, but clearly there was a minor error in it somewhere. On to the next part of this Cheers Les
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