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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 9 months ago

mavoIn commented 9 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 9 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 9 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 ;-)