Efficient way of entering pin assignments for MEGA 2560

[toneill]

I have a hardware panel comprising numerous switches and buttons and a few LEDs. This instrument uses an Arduino Mega 2560 microprocessor. As you know, there are a lot of pins available on this microprocessor. I have added the approx 60 or so pin assignments specifying the MEGA and the channel for each hardware component using the 'create/edit' tab in Air Manager. It works as expected.

Next I have created a few other hardware instruments and added them to my panel. Although, the individual instruments worked correctly in Create/Edit I see that in the panel they do not. You have to specify the microprocessor, channel and pin assignments again.

My question is 'Is there a better way of doing this or do I need to set up each switch again and then the instruments and panel works as expected.

Thanks for your help.

cheers
Ted

[Ralph]

The Create/edit tab is just made for creating and testing scripts, not for running them as a 'live environment', that's supposed to be done from the Home tab.
There's no way to copy your configuration from Create/Edit to Home, sorry.

[toneill]

OK Thanks Ralph .

[toneill]

I notice that I can still use the old way of specifying the arduino and pin assignments, for example

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hw_switch_add ("ARDUINO_UNO_F_D8", D8_pressed)

I created this instrument (hardware) in Create/Edit, stopped and then tried it in Home. It appears to work ok and I did not have to transfer all the pin settings over. Since this is a hardware instrument only for me and I am not expecting to change any pin assignments, I think this should work for me.

Ted

[jph]

I notice that I can still use the old way of specifying the arduino and pin assignments, for example

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hw_switch_add ("ARDUINO_UNO_F_D8", D8_pressed)

I created this instrument (hardware) in Create/Edit, stopped and then tried it in Home. It appears to work ok and I did not have to transfer all the pin settings over. Since this is a hardware instrument only for me and I am not expecting to change any pin assignments, I think this should work for me.

Ted

Hi Ted
that is exactly how most do it. It is far more logical when for your own use.

[toneill]

perfect thank you