Software Sneek-peek!

Tonight I managed to tidy up and finish some more bits on the software side;  mainly working on the installer and the Temperature Profile Editor code, and a bit of work on some graphics.

The installer will install all the necessary files to create your own temperature profiles and send them to the controller over Bluetooth.

The Temperature Profile Editor allows you to create a single multi-segmented profile really easily, then you can save it;  once you have as many as you need - you can then mix'n'match your own set and upload them to the controller via the Send from the menu options.

The UI still has a few little quirks but it should be stable enough for an alpha version.

Below shows the log viewer. It seems to load the logs fine but I still need to write a short bit of code to pull them out from the controller and then save them to file but that shouldn't take very long.

Round-up August Progress Update!

I've been mostly working on the PC software side and things seem to be going well.   I managed to get the hardware detection working; it wasn't as nicely implemented as I had wished for, but it works, and I could always update the code later.

Most of today was spent on the "upload" code;  this allows the user to send firing profiles directly to the controller;  one part had me stumped for a good while until I managed to resolve it.

The only bit of code to complete now is the code to combine or merge multiple profiles into a single programme set;  but once that's complete the software should have all the features required for practical use.



I've ordered another batch of components to populate some more boards; so when they arrive I can get my soldering iron fired-up and ready to go! ;-)

I was planning on doing a demo of the controller but things didn't go as quick as I had hoped;  so - I just left it;  but I'm still hoping to do some once the final PC software is complete.