Test V1 Base Station Support

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Test V1 Base Station Support

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@Firestorm7893
I added support for V1 Base Stations in cb58f33.
Can you please test if works?
Your config:

basestation:
  enabled: true  # Boolean. Enable the Base Station component.

  # ==== FOR V1 AND V2 BASE STATIONS ====
  attempt_count_set: 5  # Int >0. Number of attempts to set the power state of Base Station.

  # ==== FOR V2 BASE STATIONS (from Valve) ONLY ====
  type: 'v1'  # Enum(v1, v2). Version of your Base Stations.
  attempt_count_scan: 5  # Int >0. Maximum number of attempts to find Base Stations.

  # ==== FOR V1 BASE STATIONS (from VIVE) ONLY ====
  lh_b_mac: '40:4E:36:BD:A8:45'  # String(XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX). Bluetooth MAC address of Lighthouse B.
  lh_b_id: '62F5DDD9'  # String(XXXXXXXX). ID of Lighthouse B (printed on the back).
  lh_c_mac: '40:4E:36:BD:A1:38'  # String(XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX). Bluetooth MAC address of Lighthouse C.
  lh_c_id: '0E97C927'  # String(XXXXXXXX). ID of Lighthouse C (printed on the back).
  # See https://github.com/risa2000/lhctrl for details.

Answer 1 · 2021-01-18T19:25:15.000Z

i'll try it right now

Answer 2 · 2021-01-18T19:31:57.000Z

It takes a while for lhctrl.py to stop. But it looks like it's working correctly, i'll play for a while and see how it goes

Answer 3 · 2021-01-18T19:57:27.000Z

It takes a while for lhctrl.py to stop

Some of that is probably due to the config value wait_after_quit. You can try setting that value to 0.

Answer 4 · 2021-01-18T20:52:23.000Z

Yes i can confirm is due to that, but it's not a problem. It's all good if they eventually shutdown 😄
Anyway I played for an hour and nothing went wrong, started and stopped like they should.
I think you can add the vive stations to the supported list now.

Answer 5 · 2021-01-18T21:16:28.000Z

Thanks! I updated the readme.

Shout out to @risa2000 for his script and the open source license.

Answer 6 · 2021-01-19T00:09:42.000Z

Shout out to @risa2000 for his script and the open source license.

Great! Just for the record, I did a similar script to control V2 base stations (https://github.com/risa2000/lh2ctrl). There is nothing extraordinary, it just tries using the similar interface to V1 script. The consequence is it does not need root elevation (but needs MAC addresses instead).

@Firestorm7893 Once lhctrl.py receives Ctrl-C (or SIGTERM, SIGHUP) it sets the LH timeout to 1 second (which the smallest value possible). After that the bases should turn off.

Answer 7 · 2021-01-19T12:32:35.000Z

@risa2000 Yeah i found out while looking at your code (thanks again for the script 😄 ).
Quick question, do you think it would be possible creating a similar script with the station in A/B mode?
It may be a whim of mine, but since I went trough the trouble of routing the link cable, might as well use it!

Answer 8 · 2021-01-19T19:09:38.000Z

@Firestorm7893 I admit I never run the bases in A/B mode (i.e. connected by a wire) and I do not have them (V1 bases) anymore, so I can only speculate, but I would simply try to supply A id for "LH_B" and B id for "LH_C" in the script, or simply use only A and omit B as I believe A should be controlling B in this particular setup. (Which BTW is true even in B/C setup.)

Answer 9 · 2021-01-19T21:15:34.000Z

Confirmed it works even in A/B mode. But A and B are independent so you have to input bot ids and macs