This is the description of the Visual Basic .NET API bindings for the Motion Detector Bricklet. General information and technical specifications for the Motion Detector Bricklet are summarized in its hardware description.
An installation guide for the Visual Basic .NET API bindings is part of their general description.
The example code below is Public Domain (CC0 1.0).
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Module ExampleCallback
Const HOST As String = "localhost"
Const PORT As Integer = 4223
Const UID As String = "XYZ" ' Change to your UID
' Callback function for end of detection cycle
Sub DetectionCycleEndedCB(ByVal sender As BrickletMotionDetector)
System.Console.WriteLine("Detection Cycle Ended (next detection possible in ~3 seconds)")
End Sub
' Callback function for detected motion
Sub MotionDetectedCB(ByVal sender As BrickletMotionDetector)
System.Console.WriteLine("Motion Detected")
End Sub
Sub Main()
Dim ipcon As New IPConnection() ' Create IP connection
Dim md As New BrickletMotionDetector(UID, ipcon) ' Create device object
ipcon.Connect(HOST, PORT) ' Connect to brickd
' Register detected callback to function MotionDetectedCB
AddHandler md.MotionDetected, AddressOf MotionDetectedCB
' Register detection cycle ended callback to function DetectionCycleEndedCB
AddHandler md.DetectionCycleEnded, AddressOf DetectionCycleEndedCB
System.Console.WriteLine("Press key to exit")
System.Console.ReadLine()
ipcon.Disconnect()
End Sub
End Module
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Since Visual Basic .NET does not support multiple return values directly, we use the ByRef keyword to return multiple values from a function.
All functions and procedures listed below are thread-safe.
Creates an object with the unique device ID uid:
Dim motionDetector As New BrickletMotionDetector("YOUR_DEVICE_UID", ipcon)
This object can then be used after the IP Connection is connected (see examples above).
Returns 1 if a motion was detected. How long this returns 1 after a motion was detected can be adjusted with one of the small potentiometers on the Motion Detector Bricklet, see here.
There is also a blue LED on the Bricklet that is on as long as the Bricklet is in the "motion detected" state.
The following constants are available for this function:
Returns the version of the API definition (major, minor, revision) implemented by this API bindings. This is neither the release version of this API bindings nor does it tell you anything about the represented Brick or Bricklet.
Returns the response expected flag for the function specified by the function ID parameter. It is true if the function is expected to send a response, false otherwise.
For getter functions this is enabled by default and cannot be disabled, because those functions will always send a response. For callback configuration functions it is enabled by default too, but can be disabled by SetResponseExpected(). For setter functions it is disabled by default and can be enabled.
Enabling the response expected flag for a setter function allows to detect timeouts and other error conditions calls of this setter as well. The device will then send a response for this purpose. If this flag is disabled for a setter function then no response is send and errors are silently ignored, because they cannot be detected.
See SetResponseExpected() for the list of function ID constants available for this function.
Changes the response expected flag of the function specified by the function ID parameter. This flag can only be changed for setter (default value: false) and callback configuration functions (default value: true). For getter functions it is always enabled and callbacks it is always disabled.
Enabling the response expected flag for a setter function allows to detect timeouts and other error conditions calls of this setter as well. The device will then send a response for this purpose. If this flag is disabled for a setter function then no response is send and errors are silently ignored, because they cannot be detected.
The following function ID constants are available for this function:
Changes the response expected flag for all setter and callback configuration functions of this device at once.
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. There is also a constant for the device identifier of this Bricklet.
Callbacks can be registered to receive time critical or recurring data from the device. The registration is done by assigning a procedure to an callback property of the device object:
Sub Callback(ByVal sender As BrickletMotionDetector, ByVal value As Short) Console.WriteLine("Value: {0}", value) End Sub AddHandler motionDetector.Example, AddressOf Callback
The available callback property and their type of parameters are described below.
Note
Using callbacks for recurring events is always preferred compared to using getters. It will use less USB bandwidth and the latency will be a lot better, since there is no round trip time.
This callback is called after a motion was detected.
This callback is called when the detection cycle ended. When this callback is called, a new motion can be detected again after approximately 2 seconds.
This constant is used to identify a Motion Detector Bricklet.
The GetIdentity() function and the EnumerateCallback callback of the IP Connection have a deviceIdentifier parameter to specify the Brick's or Bricklet's type.