Better Count Down "Bips"

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Which board (stock / gruvin9x / sky9x / Taranis) are you using? STOCK

It would be interesting to get a better "BIP" count down.
actualy, there is

3 bips for 30 seconds, 2 bips for 20 seconds, 1 bips for 10 seconds, then 1 bip 
when it left 3s, 1 bip when it left 2s,1 bip when it left 1s,

if you make a test with other TX brand, we use to have 1 bip for each second of 
the 10 left, and a long one for the last one...

Best regards
Benjamin

Original issue reported on code.google.com by barre...@gmail.com on 14 May 2013 at 8:50

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I too would like  full 10 second countdown.  My additional suggestion as 
mentioned in the forum discussion is a double bip at 5 seconds as a mental sync 
point should you lose count during the countdown.

J.P.

Original comment by the.aero...@gmail.com on 15 May 2013 at 5:36

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Done. Please tell-me if it doesn't sound good!

Original comment by bson...@gmail.com on 26 May 2013 at 8:49

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Hello,

i downloaded then i flashed my tx today (R2413, 2013 05 26. 21h33:45, EEPR 
213.3)

and i have exactly the same result than before:
bip bip bip at 30 seconds
bip bip at 20 seconds
bip at 10 seconds
bip a 3 seconds
bip a 2 seconds
bip a 1 seconds

may be i've done something wrong when flasing my tx?

regards
Benjamin

Original comment by barre...@gmail.com on 29 May 2013 at 9:16

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It has been fixed in r2419!

Original comment by bson...@gmail.com on 29 May 2013 at 9:26

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bertrand you was faster :)

bdw here with audio and voice mod, there is some bug.
at 30s the voice says 20 second
at 20s the voice says 10 seconds
from 10s there are no voice and it beeps each second down to 0s
form 0s down, the beep tone was changed

simu r2413:
playFile("0503.ad4")   30s
playFile("0502.ad4")   20s
playFile("0501.ad4")   10s
playFile("0500.ad4")   3s
playFile("0500.ad4")   0s
playFile("0500.ad4")   -2s

simu r2430:
playFile("0502.ad4")   at 30s
playFile("0501.ad4")   at 20s
then no voice any more. 

Gabriel

Original comment by gbir...@gmail.com on 29 May 2013 at 9:46

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Original comment by bson...@gmail.com on 29 May 2013 at 9:51

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I avoided the renumbering which was needed for my change. But for 10 .. 9 .. 8 
.. 7 => 0, I think it's not a good idea to play it with the voice, do you? Here 
I will prefer the beeps (the numbers are a little bit too much). What do the 
other think?

Original comment by bson...@gmail.com on 30 May 2013 at 5:22

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I personally would like the option of voice.  A voice countdown would only 
announce the numbers for the final countdown (10 9 8...).  At that, voice is a 
low priority and just having the beeps for the final countdown is adequate.

With or without the enhanced countdown, I anxiously await my Tatanis running 
the incredible OpenTx.

J.P. 

Original comment by the.aero...@gmail.com on 30 May 2013 at 5:49

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i am not a fan of knowing about each second.
i am in stress if it beeps or count down very often :-)
then i let the decision about last ten voice/beeps to openrcforum users who 
need it.

Original comment by gbir...@gmail.com on 30 May 2013 at 8:30

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sorry if it's a little "off", but why my companion9X V1,28 does not give me the 
R2430 to downlowd? it only give me the 2413. so i can't try if the issue is 
solved.
i tried with 2 differents PC.... 

Original comment by barre...@gmail.com on 30 May 2013 at 9:37

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Because r2430 is not released as it needs a little bit more testing. And the 
r2413 is not bad, almost no issue has been reported!

Original comment by bson...@gmail.com on 30 May 2013 at 9:48

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I will prefer remaining with 10bips on stock

And I will propose something better on ARM boards: a choice between Nothing / 
3bips / 10bips / 3voice / 10voice

Original comment by bson...@gmail.com on 31 May 2013 at 8:52

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Bsongis idea sounds excellent.  I would suggest implementing it if it is easy, 
otherwise it can wait.

J.P. 

Original comment by the.aero...@gmail.com on 1 Jun 2013 at 7:44

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I would prefer voice for the countdown.. 10, 9, 8, 7.... etc. then beeping at 
zero..

Original comment by joaoalve...@googlemail.com on 1 Jul 2013 at 8:33

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i finally tried the new count down with the 2491 firmware.
It works, but i think it must be changed again! ..... sorry!

the last bip at the end of the countdown is the same as the 10 one before, so 
you can't know when the count down is finished
and the bips do no stop at the endof thecount down.... if you do nothing, you 
still have one bip for each seconds..... so, again you can't know when the 
count down is finished.

that's what we need:
- - - for 30 seconds
- - for 20 seconds
- 10s
- 9s
- 8s
- 7s
- 6s
- 5s
- 4s
- 3s
- 2s
- 1s
_________ 0s (a long one)
and nothing more

regards

Original comment by barre...@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2013 at 8:19

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This seems to have some correlation to the voice problem I'm having.  On sky9x 
board, countdown results in

"30 Seconds"
"20 Seconds"
"10 Seconds"
"10 Seconds"
"10 Seconds"
"10 Seconds"
"10 Seconds"
"10 Seconds"
"10 Seconds"
"10 Seconds"
"10 Seconds"
"10 Seconds"
"10 Seconds"
"10 Seconds"
Beep
Beep
Beep

I would prefer a voice countdown from 5 with only the numbers, but anything 
seems better than repeating the same sound 10 times in a row.

Thanks!

Original comment by vo...@ready2hobby.com on 23 Jul 2013 at 12:01

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This is already fixed in the LUA branch. It will be possible to choose between 
Silent / Beeps / Voice countdown

Original comment by bson...@gmail.com on 23 Jul 2013 at 7:28

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Fixed on SVN in the LUA branch. It will be available in the next MAJOR release 
(EEPROM change)

Original comment by bson...@gmail.com on 27 Jul 2013 at 1:36

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