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microbit-foundation / python-editor-v3

Micro:bit Educational Foundation Python Editor V3
https://python.microbit.org
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simulator/data log: estimate time until log is full #1133

Open jaustin opened 9 months ago

jaustin commented 9 months ago

One of the things that's quite hard with a micro:bit and data logging is working out in advance how soon you will fill up the data log.

Once logging has started, given we have a fixed log size, it would be great to give an indication of how long it would take the log to fill up at the current rate of logging.

Without this, a user has to a) work out how large the log is (120kB) b) work out how much data they're logging each log/per second c) calculate how long that would take to fill up

Or, just test it, but if the time to fill the log is, say, 20 minutes (or even 1 day), that could be really annoying.

jaustin commented 9 months ago

See also https://github.com/microsoft/pxt-microbit/issues/5368

microbit-matt-hillsdon commented 9 months ago

We have this UI for a full log at the moment so perhaps we could use the same place to show the rate of fill.

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"Estimated time until log is full: 30 mins" feels quite long but I struggle to imagine something shorter that's clear. A small progress bar with that as a hover interaction? If you've filled the log very quickly it would be useful to get the stat for a full log too.