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Those AutomationDirect.com controllers/modules are quite compact and would allow for a seriously small but capable enclosure. I rather like the concept and execution. Getting easy expansion like that for analog IO (voltage and current), various output options, etc. is really convenient. I...

Easy enough.

Quick question. What is the currently preferred method for dealing with moving a license over to a new PC? I am in the process of moving to a more powerful computer to run BC and the upcoming DB and perhaps web back-end (not sure when this new stuff will be released). That said, the mini PC I...

I can stand some "buggery" with the GC but I will probably wait until some of those potential new "GC only" type of capabilities arrive in the future. I too look forward to some of the new possibilities a new interface with more muscle might bring to the table.

Where do we stand with the Grand Central anyway? Is the firmware any better then it was mid 2019? I prepared my system for 3.3V logic to use this board and then I tested it a bunch back in June. Things were not quite ready at that time. A number of I/O were not correct in the wire map or was...

It isn't problematic. Just that it wasn't intrinsically clear in the way I looked at it. That is on me as others have found it clear enough to see through it well enough. Could it be clearer in the manner in which BrunDog mentions, sure but it isn't a big deal as it stands today. I've...

Indeed, Global elements are very powerful and I have deployed them extensively for brew and fermentation parameters and for storing values from various activities as they are indeed not volatile. I simply found the issuing of a "value" for a global when the global was set as a "string"...

Hmm, so it appears that a string (of text) would just be considered a "value" by the global and display it as it would for numerical values as long as the global is setup as a string type. It was not clear in my mind that you would set the value of a global to have it display a string when one...

Hello @BrunDog. I perhaps need to test this more to better understand the boundaries but would it be possible for an inspector to be able to show output from more then one script at a time (i.e. not be forcefully linked to one)? I have an inspector used to show process notifications and I need...

OK, thought I would share the BC brew house and ferm house workspaces that I have been working on a bit recently. I went with more of a PFD/P&ID (process flow diagram/piping & instrumentation diagram) direction and less of a photo-realistic direction. Just another example to show what you can...

I'm still writing my scripts and have not tested much about them but I would think it is not a best practice to recreate a value (like "ramp_high" or "ramp_low" in this case) every time through the loop. Which looks like every 0.5 seconds. I would pull the variable creation out of the loop and...

That is great news. Others have been able to run various MEGA 2560 variants with 12VDC on the Vin (I did as well for a while) but it is not without potential problems. It seems you ran into one, identified the potential issue, installed an alternative, and got the result you wanted. Just like...

I believe you are on the right track. 12 VDC is technically OK but I don't think any of the MEGA micros (or any of the 3.3/5 VDC logic micros) like a constant 12VDC as it has to burn off a ton of energy as heat and that can make things unstable. I was doing 12VDC initially just like you but...

Yep. I've been there as well.

Fair enough. It appears you are not looking for help from the community but rather requesting that BC be ported over to some other OS (Linux distro likely). Preferably one that would run on a SoC device that would more easily fit in an enclosure. That is something that only BrunDog can...

I'm not sure what exactly this all means but if you are 15 miles way, what are you using to determine that your laptop is unreachable? Is your laptop running BC and you are trying to use another device to RDP into your laptop running BC? If so, there are quite a few things between you and the...

Odd that the RobotDyn is giving some folks trouble. I have two and they are rock solid. It is true it has a micro USB connector on it and that is way easier to break than the female USB B connector that is on the traditional MEGAs...if your not very good at plugging in USB cables. Straight...

I'm showing PWM for all of those pins on my MEGA 2560 (I happen to be using the RobotDyn board as well but that is not part of the pin function availability). IS this some sort of wiring map issue from a pre 1.1 installation?

I forgot to mention that active low digital inputs (sinking type switch) on the RobotDyn Mega ETH 2560 are not working for me. I set one up when I had the Grand Central micro installed recently and it worked fine as a active low input wired as per the wiring diagram on the BC website. When I...

As BrunDog mentioned, I do indeed use the look-up table function in BC to get the values in BC to match the values the scale is reporting (i.e. calibrate the read voltages in BC micro enclosure against those being sent out from the scale micro controllers). On the microcontrollers that I am...