Adjusting the intershow delay on HC-8 Vixen Player Program

[gadget-evilusions]

I have attached a program Jon wrote for me. This one allows for a max 127 second inter show delay. How can I adjust the program to allow for up to an 8 minute delay. I am not familiar enough with spin to decipher what all is working to provide that timing.

[JonnyMac]

There is a method called program_hold(). Inside you will find this line:

  secs <#= 127

This uses the max operator (<#) to limit the value of secs to 127. Put an apostrophe (') at the beginning of the line to comment it out -- this will let that method run more than 127 seconds.

The program_hold() method gets called by code that looks like this:

  t := dmx_address(true) & %0111_1111
  program_hold(t)                   

Change the second line to

  program_hold(t * 10)

Now each bit of the DMX switch is worth 10 seconds; this is easy to remember. You have a max value of 1270 seconds with is just over 21 minutes.

[gadget-evilusions]

Thank you very much. That's perfect.

[gadget-evilusions]

The only way to get this new program onto the HC-8 is thru the prop plug and the propeller editor right? There is no way to boot load from the MicroSD card? Just trying to save myself 4 hours of driving to go load it on the customers prop.

[JonnyMac]

Yes, you need to load it in via the editor. Adding auto-programming via the SD card is very tricky businesses.