Hello, there. MRAB, thank you for teaching me proper Python syntax for how I tried to use the or operator.
Dennis, I must have learned allot recently as I believe I understood 99% of that code. I see how it is not just more advanced, but actually better than what I had. However, line 47 (cumTime[colour] += now - changeTime) had an error I could not figure out what to do about. Considering my time line I decided not to leave it to latter. Will be using these electronic flags at next year's game and for then I intend to just be better about everything. Will use your code to learn to get there. Hakugin, thank you you as well. I took the basic ideas you showed me for improvement and used them. The pulse settings variable was not liked by the interpreter, so I simplified it. I turned it into a hex value for each button press, then in the main loop I inserted the whole line for the LED pulse command, but put "pulse_settings" after "hex=" in the arguments. This worked. I added a few green blinks of the LED to indicate the starting and stopping of the script. Also, I got the log files score print outs upon exit working. Very important, and also importantly, I have it so it stops after a certain amount of time. For testing, I have it at 60 seconds, but games will be 3600 seconds on average when really being used. The stopping after a certain amount of time was done in a way that apparently technically works, but seems very weird and probably wrong to me. You may freak out when you see it. I used an else statement inside a while loop and it just feels so strange. At least it works. Hoping I might be able to make it so I boot the Pi, it loads the script, script waits for the user to tell it how long to make a game, game starts, scripts ends game at appropriate time, saves dated log file with scores, then waits for user to enter new game length to start new game. This is probably way to much to hope to accomplish in time. For next year for sure though. It would be better for the referees to operate that way. Next I will try and integrate wireless communications. If anyone here knows Synapse RF modules well, or at all, PLEASE contact me. Here is the code I did up most recently. Again, thanks for all the suggestions, code examples, and general help. import atexit import sys import time from blinkstick import blinkstick import RPi.GPIO as GPIO gamestart = time.time() gamelength = 60 led = blinkstick.find_first() colour = 0 time_red = 0 time_yellow = 0 time_blue = 0 timestamp = time.strftime("%H:%M:%S") pulse_settings = [] led.blink(name="green", repeats=2) GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM) GPIO.setup(22, GPIO.IN, pull_up_down=GPIO.PUD_UP) GPIO.setup(23, GPIO.IN, pull_up_down=GPIO.PUD_UP) GPIO.setup(24, GPIO.IN, pull_up_down=GPIO.PUD_UP) def red_button(channel): global colour global pulse_settings if colour != 1: colour = 1 pulse_settings = "#FF0000" def yellow_button(channel): global colour global pulse_settings if colour != 2: colour = 2 pulse_settings = "#FF8900" # Corrected yellow for cheap LED strip. def blue_button(channel): global colour global pulse_settings if colour != 3: colour = 3 pulse_settings = "#0000FF" GPIO.add_event_detect(22, GPIO.FALLING, callback=red_button, bouncetime=200) GPIO.add_event_detect(23, GPIO.FALLING, callback=yellow_button, bouncetime=200) GPIO.add_event_detect(24, GPIO.FALLING, callback=blue_button, bouncetime=200) def exit_handler(): print "\033[0;41;37mRed Team:\033[0m ", time_red print "\033[0;103;30mYellow Team:\033[0m ", time_yellow print "\033[0;44;37mBlue Team:\033[0m ", time_blue flog = open("flag1.log", "a") flog.write("\n" + timestamp + "\n" + "Red Team: " + str(time_red) + "\n" + "Yellow Team: " + str(time_yellow) + "\n" + "Blue Team: " + str (time_blue) + "\n") flog.close() led.blink(name="green", repeats=4) led.set_color(name="black") atexit.register(exit_handler) while time.time() < gamestart + gamelength: if colour == 1: time_red += 1 elif colour == 2: time_yellow += 1 elif colour == 3: time_blue += 1 led.pulse(hex=pulse_settings, repeats=1, duration=2000, steps=50) time.sleep(0.1) else: sys.exit() GPIO.cleanup() -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list