Brick/Bricklet status LEDs

[Bottesford]

I was wondering if there was a way to disable any of the status LEDs found on the various bricks & bricklets?

I'm using the wifi extension + motion detector bricklet which between them have 3 bright LEDs. These are useful in testing but for the motion detector especially it is undesirable having the bright blue light on every time someone walks in the room.

I intend to set it up in a bedroom (for automatic switch on of lighting at suitable times) so a bright LED in the middle of the night isn't nice. Also I'm considering the power use of all these LEDs running all the time - it would be better to disable them when not testing the system.

 

Is the any plan to add some a method 'SetStatusLightsOff' or similar?

[borg]

For the Master Brick there is a disable_wifi2_status_led() as well as a disable_status_led() function.

 

For the Motion Detector Bricklet we currently don't have such an API. I will write in on my TODO list, adding this API is not a huge amount of work.

 

edit: Translated to English, accidentally answered in German .

[Bottesford]

Thank you, very helpful!

[borg]

I already added the API in the Motion Detector source code, will be available with the next Bindings release.

 

https://github.com/Tinkerforge/motion-detector-bricklet/commit/f327f00f01dafd6a01bc4bc704b49e686aea94bb

[Bottesford]

When will the updated c# DLL be ready so I can use this in my code?

My bricklet was updated but I still can't use the new method yet.

Thanks.

[borg]

We just made a new Bindings release, so the new function is now available in C# .

[Bottesford]

Thanks but I'm getting :

System.MissingMethodException :

Method not found: 'Void Tinkerforge.BrickletMotionDetector.SetStatusLEDConfig(Byte)'.

 

I call it like this:

bricklet.SetStatusLEDConfig(BrickletMotionDetector.STATUS_LED_CONFIG_OFF);

 

I'm using the latest bindings (2.1.12.0) and I have fully updated all my Bricks & Bricklets as well as Brickd and viewer.

[borg]

You have to update the firmware on your Bricklet, it does not now the method yet.