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MicroBahner / MobaTools

Arduino library for model railroaders
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
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Using with shift in/out libaries like shifty #23

Closed mavoIn closed 11 months ago

mavoIn commented 11 months ago

Hello,

First of all I would like to thank you for your very useful lib here. I hope it's okay if I ask here, as there don't seem to be any new registrations confirmed in the Stimmies Modellbahnforum at the moment.

Is there a simple way to control or read out the SoftLEDs or SoftButtons via a shift register.

Currently I would like to use a lib like https://github.com/johnnyb/Shifty. However, I'm not that experienced and wanted to ask if anyone has already done it and could maybe share his code with me?

Thank you very much.

MicroBahner commented 11 months ago

Hi, I'm not quite shure what you mean with 'softButtons?. SoftLeds mus be connected directly to a pin on the Arduino. The MoToButtons library allows to connect the buttons in an arbitrary way. You can connect them via shift registers, I2C, matrix - as you like. This is possible because the raw reading of the buttons can be done in a callback function. And it is up to you to write this function. I never used the lib you linked. best regards and a merry christmas :-)

mavoIn commented 11 months ago

Thx for the quick answer. This will help me... unfortunately i have to switch the library to be able to trigger leds via shift register. :-( Merry christmas ;-)