dupontgu/dial_toner

Hardware/Software for The Dial Toner: a mechanical hex color picker.

dial_toner's Issues

Crash when button tapped while computer is asleep

• Gets the CircuitPython "USB is busy" error.
• Observed on macOS Catalina.
• DialToner version 0.2.0

Non-US keyboard - pound / hash symbol (#)

I'm using a v3 Dial Toner connected to macOS Ventura.

When I hit the button in the default hex mode, I'm getting (for example) £E4512A <- generated directly from the key pad right now.

The £ symbol should be a # symbol 🙂

I'm not 100% sure how to fix this in the code.

On my keyboard, pressing the 3 key with Shift -> £ and with Alt -> #
Nevertheless I was kind of surprised that directly sending the string #E4512A (generated via config.py) is getting converted to £E4512A

• looked into the KeyboardLayout for CircuitPython, but I'm not finding (for example) a British English option. It looks like (?) the KeyboardLayout assumes specific key locations? Should I add a UK English layout in
• looked at ways to send a POUND keycode (considered removing # from hex_sequence in config.py and having the symbol inserted in dt_keyboard.py or, having dt_keyboard.py do some kind of filtering to replace # in str if it is passed in).
• basically I've tried a number of things but seem to be struggling to figure out the "best" way to get the actual # character sent to the computer.

It might be nice if this could somehow be a config option on the 5th dial or something, but a code change for the end-user is also OK...

User Guide suggestions

• link to it from GitHub
• put the source for it on GitHub so others can submit edits 😄
  • even if it is also published as a Google Doc... there's Markdown support for GDocs now, too...
• add a note on dial positions with an image to show that the numeric indicator is set by the line, with the dot to the left of it.
• add a note on renaming the CIRCUITPY drive if desired?
  • could just be a link to the Adafruit doc for simplicity. I renamed mine DIALTONER (which is conveniently the same length as CIRCUITPY)
• add the upcoming "option 5" configuration option for keyboard emulation type