Arduino Wifi Rev2: Incompatibility with some libraries (used for arduinos)

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Arduino Wifi Rev2: Incompatibility with some libraries (used for arduinos) #470

Open bjost2s opened 4 years ago

bjost2s commented 4 years ago

Describe the bug when e. g. an ultrasonic sensor or an infrared sensor is used in the configuration, the program cannot be compiled and a compiler error is displayed.

TODO

Check carefully which sensors and actuators from the common arduino plugin can be used.
Try to find workarounds (other libraries)
If this is not possible we should decide how to support arduino wifi rev2 in the future, maybe a separate plugin is necessary

boonto commented 4 years ago

The problematic sensors are RFID and infrared. There is currently an open pull request to the infrared library here which should fix that one once merged and updated. For the RFID sensors the problem seems to have been introduced in the 1.8.5 version of the megaavr core as documented here.

For now we could add a simple (and ugly) workaround with a "not supported" message similar to the say block for EV3 Lejos V0. As those issues will hopefully be fixed soon.

boonto commented 4 years ago

I also split the integration tests in #364 into their own "unowifirev2" folder, which should be removed and replaced with the "ardu" folder once the libraries work.

boonto commented 4 years ago

As a quick workaround I added the "not supported" messages, so the user is notified that the two blocks do not work. No code is generated and compilation will succeed as a result.

boonto commented 4 years ago

The IRremote library was updated to support Uno Wifi Rev2. I have updated our usages and removed the "not supported" messages.