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[Suggestion] Make reload default motor configuration button harder to access

Open kubark42 opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

This is sort of the "nuke them all from orbit, it's the only way to be sure" button. It's plausible that an inadvertent press of this could cause physical damage if the user doesn't catch the settings changes before committing to EEPROM. At the very least, it can cause a lot of stress and heartache as the motor/ESC setup is rebuilt from scratch.

As an alternative which would take more development time, if the button were only limited to the page open in front of the user, it might make sense that the user would want to frequently press it. As it is, I would hesitate to press this button unless I were looking to recover from a really bad situation. I would hate to risk losing the results from wizards and tuning efforts.

kubark42 avatar Sep 29 '21 17:09 kubark42

I think adding a confirmation when using this button would be good. If you haven't saved the config before writing the default config you just loaded you cannot recover it. The button is also right next to two other buttons that are clicked frequently so there is a high chance you accidently click it when trying to write the config, then write the config. Which could then cause you to damage your hardware if you then try to run the motor.

TechAUmNu avatar Jan 11 '22 12:01 TechAUmNu