MTC4BT should report back battery level to Rocrail

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MTC4BT should report back battery level to Rocrail #32

Open joosbuijsNL opened 1 year ago

joosbuijsNL commented 1 year ago

Rocrail has a feature to send a train to the home location at a certain battery level (https://wiki.rocrail.net/doku.php?id=loc-details-en#minimal_energy). In order to use this correctly MTC4BT should regularly report back the current battery level to Rocrail.

Such that trains with low batteries are taken out of operation and do not block the main tracks.

Mattzobricks commented 1 year ago

Similar: #23.

Mattzobricks commented 1 year ago

The battery level feedback functionality has been integrated into the MTC4PF and MTC4PU since early stages of the project. It is even a part of the hardware and PCB design of the MTC4PF mini. We just never brought it to life there, but it would only be a small step I guess. Just need a layout and sufficient time at the same moment... as always.

Mattzobricks commented 1 year ago

The assumption is:

PU provides battery information that we can use.
SBrick presumably also supports the feature. At least this is a feature in the Android app.

Mattzobricks commented 1 year ago

Ray is going to find out how to send the power level back to Rocrail via MQTT.

joosbuijsNL commented 11 months ago

Any update/progress on this one? Still interested since during an 8h show it would be nice if trains are pro-actively put aside instead of slowing down and clogging up the layout :)