Hi!
I was investigating buffer corruption and reconnection issues of the Miniscope on Linux (once disconnected, reconnecting didn't work 90% of the time, and occasionally buffers were corrupt causing striping), and I found an extremely good client-side workaround for this.
While investigating the issue, I implemented this command to hard-reset a Miniscope DAQ board from software (just send 0xFE0x01 as "I2C" command).
Ultimately, no changes on the firmware were necessary to address the issues (it's now super reliable!), but the reset command is fairly useful for development, or if you just want to bring back the board into a known-good state without power-cycling it (maybe the USB port of it is hard to reach), so I thought it made sense to contribute this change back.
As a bonus, I also modernized the clang-format configuration from the last patch.
daharoni
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1 year ago
Hi! I was investigating buffer corruption and reconnection issues of the Miniscope on Linux (once disconnected, reconnecting didn't work 90% of the time, and occasionally buffers were corrupt causing striping), and I found an extremely good client-side workaround for this. While investigating the issue, I implemented this command to hard-reset a Miniscope DAQ board from software (just send
0xFE0x01as "I2C" command). Ultimately, no changes on the firmware were necessary to address the issues (it's now super reliable!), but the reset command is fairly useful for development, or if you just want to bring back the board into a known-good state without power-cycling it (maybe the USB port of it is hard to reach), so I thought it made sense to contribute this change back.As a bonus, I also modernized the clang-format configuration from the last patch.
Thanks for considering! Cheers, Matthias