[NEW LIGHT] fit-statUSB

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[NEW LIGHT] fit-statUSB

Closed this issue 2 years ago · 13 comments

If you would like BusyLight to support a new device, please provide as much of the following as possible.

Product Name: fit-statUSB
Vendor URL: https://fit-iot.com/web/product/fit-statusb/
Purchase URL: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CKFLQ5V
Public documentation URLs: http://www.fit-pc.com/wiki/index.php/Fit-statUSB

Answer 1 · 2022-08-07T15:47:44.000Z

Cool! A new light and thank you for all the useful links. I've ordered an example and should have it shortly. Reviewing the docs, it appears to be a serial device rather than a HID device. I've been working on a re-write to incorporate serial devices side by side with HID lights, but it's still a work in progress with no real ETA. I'm having to re-write the class hierarchy AND learn how serial devices work with Python.

Answer 2 · 2022-08-07T17:35:07.000Z

Thanks for responding so quickly! If there's any way I can help with the serial device support or testing, let me know. :)

Answer 3 · 2022-08-07T18:07:52.000Z

The serial communication part is pretty straight forward, it takes me back to the bad old day of talking to devices on parallel and non-USB serial ports. The light hierarchy is changing from

USBLight -> vendor_specific_light

to

         +--> HIDLight -> vendor_specific_lights
Light ---+
         +--> SerialLight -> vendor_specific_lights

So I'm having to find the common ground between HID and serial and move that into Light and then implement the protocol specific stuff. My goal is to have a similar interface that USBLight provides so that users don't have to know the implementation specific details of the light they just plugged in:

from busylight.lights import Light

light = Light.first_light()

light.on((255,0,0))

Answer 4 · 2022-08-07T18:12:41.000Z

I'm working in branch feature/Light if you want to follow along, haven't committed anything yet but should have some basic stuff committed in the next 12 hours.

Answer 5 · 2022-08-07T18:28:39.000Z

I like your approach! I'll follow that branch.

Answer 6 · 2022-08-13T20:19:54.000Z

I have a fit-statUSB light (and a MuteSync light/button which is also a serial device) and figured out how to drive it using the PySerial package. I'm replacing busylight.lights.USBLight and it's hierarchy with busylight.lights.Light which has subclasses HIDLight and SerialLight.

Answer 7 · 2022-08-13T20:22:28.000Z

Awesome! Thank you so much.

Answer 8 · 2022-08-26T02:20:01.000Z

The fit-statUSB is working with the latest commit to the feature/Light branch. It's kind of a limited; it performs fade ins and fade outs for color transitions that are "builtin" and uncommanded. This isn't a big deal for turning the light on and off, but changing between colors quickly looks a little weird. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But it's working :) Same goes for the MuteSync serial device.

I'm going to get tests working again before merging this branch into the master branch.

Answer 9 · 2022-09-08T09:17:11.000Z

Check this out for inspiration: https://pypi.org/project/pystatusb

Answer 10 · 2022-09-08T15:42:04.000Z

I wasn't aware I needed inspiration, thanks Henry.

Answer 11 · 2022-09-12T03:17:59.000Z

Commit 44053a8 adds support for the fit-statUSB and two other lights in addition to a complete restructuring of the Light subclass hierarchy.

Answer 12 · 2022-09-12T12:28:24.000Z

Excellent!! I'll give it a try this week(end?)

Thank you so much

Answer 13 · 2022-09-12T12:34:48.000Z

I ordered my version of this device aswell and will give feedback once it arrived. Thanks Erik