[Solved] Servo Control from slider

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1

Good morning

I am trying now a simple servo control from the dashboard with a slider…
The servo motor reacts on the slider changes, but the slider doesn’t stay in place where I want it to be…it always returns to zero…

Even when moving the slider, 0 values are sent down to the device…this is how the sent data looks like when moving the slider:

54
0
57
0
60
0
68
0
69
0

The code is the same as in the Arduino library servo example…

Is there something missing or must I return a value to the thing function?

thanks in advance
richard

PS: Probably this post will be marked soon as well as spam as all the others…

2

Hmm…I think what the problem might be…

In the example there is no code that handles events with empty data…

3

Hello Richard,

You’re right, but it is easily solved by including the instruction “is_empty()” as in the code below:

thing["position"]<<[](pson &in){
     if(in.is_empty()){
        in = aux_position;
     }else{
       new_position = in;
       aux_position= (int)new_position;   
     }
 };

Where new_position is a global integer and aux_position is a global Pson defined at the beginning of the code, iniciallized with an standard value.

Hope it helps other people ¿How did you solve it?

4

Hi Jorge

I did a similar thing…discovered it while I was playing with the linux client to test before going the openwrt way (o;

thing["servopos"] << [](pson& in){
    if(in.is_empty())
      in = (int)servopos;
    else
    {
      servopos = (int)in;
      servo1.write((int)in);
    }
    servopos = in;
};

cheers
richard

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