This is the description of the TCP/IP protocol for the Segment Display 4x7 Bricklet. General information and technical specifications for the Segment Display 4x7 Bricklet are summarized in its hardware description.
A general description of the TCP/IP protocol structure can be found here.
Function ID: | 1 |
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Request: |
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Response: | no response |
The 7-segment display can be set with bitmaps. Every bit controls one segment:
For example to set a "5" you would want to activate segments 0, 2, 3, 5 and 6. This is represented by the number 0b01101101 = 0x6d = 109.
The brightness can be set between 0 (dark) and 7 (bright). The colon parameter turns the colon of the display on or off.
Function ID: | 2 |
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Request: | empty payload |
Response: |
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Returns the segment, brightness and color data as set by set_segments.
Function ID: | 3 |
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Request: |
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Response: | no response |
Starts a counter with the from value that counts to the to value with the each step incremented by increment. The length of the increment is given in ms.
Example: If you set from to 0, to to 100, increment to 1 and length to 1000, a counter that goes from 0 to 100 with one second pause between each increment will be started.
The maximum values for from, to and increment is 9999, the minimum value is -999.
Using a negative increment allows to count backwards.
You can stop the counter at every time by calling set_segments.
Function ID: | 4 |
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Request: | empty payload |
Response: |
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Returns the counter value that is currently shown on the display.
If there is no counter running a 0 will be returned.
Function ID: | 255 |
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Request: | empty payload |
Response: |
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Returns the UID, the UID where the Bricklet is connected to, the position, the hardware and firmware version as well as the device identifier.
The position can be 'a', 'b', 'c' or 'd'.
The device identifier numbers can be found here.
Function ID: | 5 |
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Response: | empty payload |
This callback is triggered when the counter (see start_counter) is finished.