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matherp
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Posted: 09:36pm 25 Sep 2023

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Quote I regret to advise that my test webmite clock stopped twice in the last 24 hours.

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Please post the full code and any supporting files

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Posted: 11:35pm 25 Sep 2023

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rtvmon.zip

Point your browser to rtv.html
You will have to change the NTP source etc

The information will not look very interesting without the radio it monitors but it does run without.

I am trying a run without UDP server activated.

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Posted: 01:29am 26 Sep 2023

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Hi Peter

What did you roll back to b12 in Web Transmit Page?

I'm getting the following where the numbers represent MM.INFO(HEAP) printed every 1s. There is a curl pulling the all.html JSON string every minute on the minute. Could this be linked to Jim's problems? Last entry in the log on RUN was

Date, Time, Boot Count, ErrMsg$, ErrNo, MM.INFO(Watchdog)
25-09-2023,18:02:21, 963,, 0, 0

and it froze at 18:26:59 (I have disabled the external watchdog reset)

Console output below

64256 64256 64256 64256 64256 64256 64256 64256 64256 64256 64256 64256 64256 64256 64256 64256 64256 64256 64256
[881] WEB TRANSMIT PAGE a%, file$
Error : No response to request from connection no. 1
> [CYW43] do_ioctl(2, 263, 16): timeout
[CYW43] do_ioctl(2, 263, 16): timeout
[CYW43] do_ioctl(2, 263, 16): timeout
[CYW43] do_ioctl(2, 263, 16): timeout
[CYW43] do_ioctl(2, 263, 16): timeout
[CYW43] do_ioctl(2, 263, 16): timeout
[CYW43] do_ioctl(2, 263, 16): timeout
[CYW43] do_ioctl(2, 263, 16): timeout
[CYW43] do_ioctl(2, 263, 16): timeout
[CYW43] do_ioctl(2, 263, 16): timeout
[CYW43] do_ioctl(2, 263, 16): timeout
[CYW43] do_ioctl(2, 263, 16): timeout
[CYW43] do_ioctl(2, 263, 16): timeout
[CYW43] do_ioctl(2, 263, 16): timeout
[CYW43] do_ioctl(2, 263, 16): timeout
[CYW43] do_ioctl(2, 263, 16): timeout
[CYW43] do_ioctl(2, 263, 16): timeout

The web transmit page is in response to a GET calling for all.html which contains only {JSON$} where JSON$={"a": 50.010, "b": 41.8202, "c":1218, "d":60, "e": 47.4242, "f": 34.1,"g": 64256}

In Wireshark I notice that suddenly the all.html GET is being responded to with a 404 error until the Pico crashes. Odd because all is hunky dory and then suddenly the 404 errors.

No. Time Source Destination Protocol Length Info
239730 21012.505016 172.16.1.75 172.16.1.79 HTTP 137 GET /all.html HTTP/1.1
239738 21012.976572 172.16.1.79 172.16.1.75 HTTP 242 HTTP/1.1 200 OK (text/html)
240031 21072.156050 172.16.1.75 172.16.1.79 HTTP 137 GET /all.html HTTP/1.1
240032 21072.261666 172.16.1.79 172.16.1.75 HTTP 242 HTTP/1.1 200 OK (text/html)
241082 21132.707566 172.16.1.75 172.16.1.79 HTTP 137 GET /all.html HTTP/1.1
241083 21132.755406 172.16.1.79 172.16.1.75 HTTP 242 HTTP/1.1 200 OK (text/html)
242043 21193.054931 172.16.1.75 172.16.1.79 HTTP 137 GET /all.html HTTP/1.1
242273 21252.113684 172.16.1.75 172.16.1.79 HTTP 137 GET /all.html HTTP/1.1
243251 21312.281804 172.16.1.75 172.16.1.79 HTTP 137 GET /all.html HTTP/1.1
243262 21313.782355 172.16.1.79 172.16.1.75 HTTP 54 HTTP/1.0 404
243380 21373.403003 172.16.1.75 172.16.1.79 HTTP 137 GET /all.html HTTP/1.1
243397 21375.070653 172.16.1.79 172.16.1.75 HTTP 54 HTTP/1.0 404
243593 21432.702476 172.16.1.75 172.16.1.79 HTTP 137 GET /all.html HTTP/1.1
243604 21435.171906 172.16.1.79 172.16.1.75 HTTP 54 HTTP/1.0 404

Hope this helps narrow down the problem area.
Edited 2023-09-26 11:34 by carlschneider

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Posted: 09:32am 26 Sep 2023

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V5.07.08RC4

https://geoffg.net/Downloads/picomite/PicoMite_Beta.zip

Quite a lot of new stuff to keep you amused. Next I'll focus on trying to get to the bottom of the Webmite instability issues

Fixes bugs in using a backlight pin with SSD1963 displays

New functionality:

Support for 8-bit parallel ILI9341 display

OPTION LCDPANEL ILI9341_8,orientation% [,backlightpin]

NB: unlike SPI displays, parallel display performance scales with CPU speed. The drivers are tuned to work up to and including at 378MHz.
The pins for the ILI9481_8 are exactly as per the SSD1963 in the manual

MM.INFO(FLASH ADDRESS n) - returns the address of the flash slot n

LIBRARY DISK SAVE fname$ - saves the contents of the library to disk

LIBRARY DISK LOAD fname$ - restores the contents of the library from disk

FLASH DISK LOAD n, fname$ [,O[VERWRITE]] - copies a file into flash slot n as a binary transfer. If overwrite is specified then overwrites the existing contents of the flash slot without an error being raised. Can be used in a program.

NB: Together, these commands allow you to prepare data as CSUB, copy it to the library and then either restore the library in preparation for running a specific program (command line only), or load the library as binary data into any flash slot directly in a program. The new MM.INFO function allows you to know the location of each flash slot in memory.

FRAMEBUFFER COPY from, to [,B] - if B is specified the copy is done using the second CPU and the command returns immediately to the Basic program (PicoMite only)
Edited 2023-09-26 19:38 by matherp

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Posted: 09:52am 26 Sep 2023

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Manually renamed the files to "RC4"

Will try the library disk stuff tonight

Volhout

edit:
"LIBRARY DISK SAVE "test.bin" gives syntax error.
Did you put the wrong files in the upload ?
Edited 2023-09-26 20:04 by Volhout

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Posted: 10:13am 26 Sep 2023

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You somehow downloaded the old zip - suggest you try again

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tried again...

again RC3 from 24-9-2023
maybe some caching .. I will try tonight at home.

Volhout

P.S. different browser... now it works...miracles...

EDIT: library disk save and load work ! thanks....

EDIT++: one anoyance found
When VGA in mode2, and USB terminal is used, manual typed lines in USB terminal are cut at 40 characters.... When no VGA screen connected, this is hard to see why. This may also be related to the fact that lines typed in in 40 column mode (that go past the screen edge, so wrap around) are cut as if you ignore the first line, and only process what is after the wrap around.
Edited 2023-09-26 21:09 by Volhout

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Posted: 03:21pm 26 Sep 2023

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matherp said Support for 8-bit parallel ILI9341 display

I happen to have one of these "Arduino" ILI9341s, purchased by mistake 4 years ago. It has pins labelled LCD-D0 through LCD-D7. Is it likely that it can be connected with flying wires as yours is to work in 8-bit parallel mode?

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Posted: 04:18pm 26 Sep 2023

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on little issue ... in RC4 VGA

If i am in Mode 2 and type EDIT 1 .. as I used to...
It switches to Mode 1and returns an Error : Expected a String

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Posted: 04:36pm 26 Sep 2023

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IIRC that's expected behaviour now, isn't it? EDIT always goes to Mode 1. If you wanted to edit a file called "1" it would have had to be in quotes.

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Mixtel90 said IIRC that's expected behaviour now, isn't it? EDIT always goes to Mode 1. If you wanted to edit a file called "1" it would have had to be in quotes.

nope, until the new RC that was the short form from "Mode 1 : Edit".
But that edit now allways switches to Mode 1 is also fine for me.
Then I have to readjust my muscle memory

Edited 2023-09-27 02:44 by Martin H.

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Should work, certainly worth trying

When VGA in mode2, and USB terminal is used, manual typed lines in USB terminal are cut at 40 characters.... When no VGA screen connected, this is hard to see why. This may also be related to the fact that lines typed in in 40 column mode (that go past the screen edge, so wrap around) are cut as if you ignore the first line, and only process what is after the wrap around.

Always been the case - will always be the case

EDIT changed recently as per my comments in the beta thread.
If in mode 2 edit automatically switches to mode 1 with font 1
If in mode 1 and the default font is 1 then edit works in colour
If in mode 1 and the default font is something else then the edit will be monochrome. This is useful for editing files with long lines
So OPTION LCDPANEL CONSOLE 7, then EDIT will be monochrome but with a 60 rows and 106 columns.
The only parameter now to the EDIT command is an optional filename. This allows you to edit a file directly to and from disk - great for sprites/html etc.

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matherp said Should work, certainly worth trying

Which pins need to be connected to which?

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Posted: 06:26pm 26 Sep 2023

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Quote Which pins need to be connected to which?

As per the manual for a SSD1963.

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Bugs in lcdpanel ST7735 160x80 (ST7735S in software)
File SPI-LCD.c
Line 682: Inverted colours for ST7735S only - fix:

spi_write_command(ST7735_INVOFF); // No inversion ALL three devices

Line 967: Fixes paint of Rows/Cols 0/159 & 0/79 in relevant orientation modes

if(Option.DISPLAY_TYPE==ST7735S){
if(Option.DISPLAY_ORIENTATION & 1){
ystart+=25; // was 26
yend+=25; // ditto
// xstart++; << no
// xend++; << no
} else {
xstart+=25; // was 26
xend+=25; // ditto
// ystart++; << no
// yend++; << no
}
}

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Quote Bugs in lcdpanel ST7735 160x80 (ST7735S in software)

Which version of the display? Different versions wire differently and I'm sure the code was correct for the version I coded.

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Posted: 08:22pm 27 Sep 2023

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WEBmite seems reliable on RC3 when I disabled the UDP server.
36 hours so far without the clock stopping.

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RC4 appears to be more stable than RC3. Web server response doesn’t crash the Webmite. Ran 18 hours before the ioctrl() error. Also didn’t replicate beyond one repetition. Interestingly enough the web connection errors ramped from no 1 to 2 to 3. WireShark showed three GETs that weren’t replied to. These GETs are 60s apart.

What I did notice on RC4 is that the browser stops and the Webmite keeps going fine. On RC3 if the browser stopped the Webmite froze.

What is strange to my mind is that the code is static but the Heap pointer is different between restarts. It remains static once the code is running, but is not pointing to the same Heap position, all in the same area but not always the same. I was on my way to tieing the freezes to the heap pointer…

Hope these observations help.

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Hi Peter,

This running on a PicoMite with SPI ILI9341 plots occasional white pixels in a horizontal line about 30 pixels down the screen, bug or user failure ? It doesn't happen if I remove the "B"ackground copy.

FrameBuffer Create
FrameBuffer Write F
Do
FrameBuffer Copy F, N, B
Pause 500
Loop

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Just tested on Mick's original ILI9341 I/F board and no artefacts at any CPU speed

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