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Auto-park feature
What would you think about an auto-park feature, where the controller, if it doesn't receive a command for a configurable amount of time (eg. 15 minutes), moves the rotator into a specific "parking" position?
The idea here is if you live in a area with strong-but-intermittent wind, you may want to park your rotator in a specific position, to minimize the wind load on an antenna mast/tower/etc. Having it auto-park after a timeout, would make it more reliable, and avoid needing to manually park it each time.
As I come up to speed on this code base, I'll see if I can build it, and send you a pull request. I'm just getting started, though, so it might be a little while.
Lloyd - KC7NGB
Hi Loyd. It sounds like a good feature to me. I'm working on a big feature for the keyer project and I have an update queued for the tuner project, so it might be awhile for me to get to this as well. Be we can definitely do it, so it's on the list.
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 7:03 PM, somewhere-or-other < [email protected]> wrote:
What would you think about an auto-park feature, where the controller, if it doesn't receive a command for a configurable amount of time (eg. 15 minutes), moves the rotator into a specific "parking" position?
The idea here is if you live in a area with strong-but-intermittent wind, you may want to park your rotator in a specific position, to minimize the wind load on an antenna mast/tower/etc. Having it auto-park after a timeout, would make it more reliable, and avoid needing to manually park it each time.
As I come up to speed on this code base, I'll see if I can build it, and send you a pull request. I'm just getting started, though, so it might be a little while.
Lloyd - KC7NGB
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Hello K3NG,
Your project is really great ! 👍 All the features I have try as rtc, gps, i2c display, joystick worked perfectly.
Just one question : Is the auto park feature (after 15 min) is implemented now ? I don't find it in the documentation. My remote qth is really windy and I should park the array antennas in the prevalling winds during no activity. I'm newbie in programming code.
I know you have another project on the table but do you think this feature is easy to add? Thank you
Best 73's from Belgium. Michaël ON7KGK
I am working on this feature. Should the autopark timer be reset only when the antenna is rotated, or should it also be reset if a serial command is entered (any command, including ones that don't initiate rotation)?
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 5:21 AM, ON7KGK [email protected] wrote:
Hello K3NG,
Your project is really great ! 👍 All the features I have try as rtc, gps, i2c display, joystick worked perfectly.
Just one question : Is the auto park feature (after 15 min) is implemented now ? I don't find it in the documentation. My remote qth is really windy and I should park the array antennas in the prevalling winds during no activity. I'm newbie in programming code.
I know you have another project on the table but do you think this feature is easy to add? Thank you
Best 73's from Belgium. Michaël ON7KGK
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Updated code uploaded with new FEATURE_AUTOPARK.
Documented here: https://github.com/k3ng/k3ng_rotator_controller/wiki/705-Park-and-AutoPark
Please test.
73
On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Anthony Good [email protected] wrote:
I am working on this feature. Should the autopark timer be reset only when the antenna is rotated, or should it also be reset if a serial command is entered (any command, including ones that don't initiate rotation)?
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 5:21 AM, ON7KGK [email protected] wrote:
Hello K3NG,
Your project is really great ! 👍 All the features I have try as rtc, gps, i2c display, joystick worked perfectly.
Just one question : Is the auto park feature (after 15 min) is implemented now ? I don't find it in the documentation. My remote qth is really windy and I should park the array antennas in the prevalling winds during no activity. I'm newbie in programming code.
I know you have another project on the table but do you think this feature is easy to add? Thank you
Best 73's from Belgium. Michaël ON7KGK
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Hello.
Thank you for the code. I will test it this week-end. I think that for my usage the timer should only be reset when the antenna is rotated but I am not sure because I will use pstrotator for remote work and I don't know if the commands from this software are serial or not.
The autopark timer (in minute) must be entered just one time or every time the rotor is power on ? I never used the console to send serial commands.
Perhaps, setting the timer in the features file should be easier for me. For example : #define AUTOPARK_TIMER 15
My activity is mainly DATV so the antenna can stay in same direction for a long time qso (1h or more).
So is it possible to enable and disable the autopark feature with a pin ?
Have a nice day. Thank you
Michaël from Belgium.
The autopark timer setting is written to EEPROM, so you only need to set it once.
How about I create two pins:
pin_autopark_disable: Pull low to disable autopark
pin_autopark_timer_reset: Pull low to reset the autopark timer (tie in with rig PTT)
On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 3:26 AM, ON7KGK [email protected] wrote:
Hello.
Thank you for the code. I will test it this week-end. I think that for my usage the timer should only be reset when the antenna is rotated but I am not sure because I will use pstrotator for remote work and I don't know if the commands from this software are serial or not.
The autopark timer (in minute) must be entered just one time or every time the rotor is power on ? I never used the console to send serial commands.
Perhaps, setting the timer in the features file should be easier for me. For example : #define AUTOPARK_TIMER 15
My activity is mainly DATV so the antenna can stay in same direction for a long time qso (1h or more).
So is it possible to enable and disable the autopark feature with a pin ?
Have a nice day. Thank you
Michaël from Belgium.
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Hello,
Nice ! You can do like that. Perfect for me Big thank you
Michaël
Le 15 août 2017 à 06:20, Anthony Good <[email protected]mailto:[email protected]> a écrit :
The autopark timer setting is written to EEPROM, so you only need to set it once.
How about I create two pins:
pin_autopark_disable: Pull low to disable autopark
pin_autopark_timer_reset: Pull low to reset the autopark timer (tie in with rig PTT)
On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 3:26 AM, ON7KGK <[email protected]mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
Hello.
Thank you for the code. I will test it this week-end. I think that for my usage the timer should only be reset when the antenna is rotated but I am not sure because I will use pstrotator for remote work and I don't know if the commands from this software are serial or not.
The autopark timer (in minute) must be entered just one time or every time the rotor is power on ? I never used the console to send serial commands.
Perhaps, setting the timer in the features file should be easier for me. For example : #define AUTOPARK_TIMER 15
My activity is mainly DATV so the antenna can stay in same direction for a long time qso (1h or more).
So is it possible to enable and disable the autopark feature with a pin ?
Have a nice day. Thank you
Michaël from Belgium.
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Uploaded updated code to Github, version 2017.09.03.02:
Added pins pin_autopark_disable and pin_autopark_timer_reset for
FEATURE_AUTOPARK
Please test!
73 Goody K3NG
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 1:30 AM, ON7KGK [email protected] wrote:
Hello,
Nice ! You can do like that. Perfect for me Big thank you
Michaël
Le 15 août 2017 à 06:20, Anthony Good <[email protected]<mailto: [email protected]>> a écrit :
The autopark timer setting is written to EEPROM, so you only need to set it once.
How about I create two pins:
pin_autopark_disable: Pull low to disable autopark
pin_autopark_timer_reset: Pull low to reset the autopark timer (tie in with rig PTT)
On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 3:26 AM, ON7KGK <[email protected]<mailto: [email protected]>> wrote:
Hello.
Thank you for the code. I will test it this week-end. I think that for my usage the timer should only be reset when the antenna is rotated but I am not sure because I will use pstrotator for remote work and I don't know if the commands from this software are serial or not.
The autopark timer (in minute) must be entered just one time or every time the rotor is power on ? I never used the console to send serial commands.
Perhaps, setting the timer in the features file should be easier for me. For example : #define AUTOPARK_TIMER 15
My activity is mainly DATV so the antenna can stay in same direction for a long time qso (1h or more).
So is it possible to enable and disable the autopark feature with a pin ?
Have a nice day. Thank you
Michaël from Belgium.
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