RE: [neonixie-l] "Firmware" must-have's / nice to have's

2016-11-15 Thread Jeff Walton
Juergen uses code developed by Pete of PV Electronics.   Take a look at the clocks on the PV Electronics web site.  Jeff Original message From: Alic Date: 11/15/16 5:41 PM (GMT-06:00) To: neonixie-l Subject: [neonixie-l] "Firmware" must-have's / nice

[neonixie-l] "Firmware" must-have's / nice to have's

2016-11-15 Thread Alic
Hi Jonathan, Thanks for sharing! Jürgen's clocks (nixiekits.eu) use scrolling to switch between time and date. I find it a nice feature since it uses the digits in the tubes more evenly in addition to the anti cathode poisoning routine. I like clocks with 2 "dots" for each separator column. Thi

Re: [neonixie-l] "Firmware" must-have's / nice to have's

2016-11-15 Thread SWISSNIXIE - Jonathan F.
Am Dienstag, 15. November 2016 19:11:41 UTC+1 schrieb Paolo Cravero: > > > While I grew up surrounded by RS232 cables, the serial setup sounds not > practical and user friendly. > > Maybe you would add a scrolling display of date-time? Again, it's a > programming exercise :) By the way, is any

Re: [neonixie-l] "Firmware" must-have's / nice to have's

2016-11-15 Thread David Forbes
Andy, I don't know about that. I find it takes less effort to set a clock than it takes to configure a network device. It also takes less effort to ensure that you haven't crete a spambot if it's not connected to the Internet. That said, I do believe in ntp for setting the time on our univers

Re: [neonixie-l] "Firmware" must-have's / nice to have's

2016-11-15 Thread Andy Tefft
This is not completely a firmware feature but a clock for this day and age should be able to connect to my wifi, and then use ntp for time setting. A challenge to make it easy for the user to set up since you have limited display/input capability, but it could be as simple as allowing the user to p

Re: [neonixie-l] "Firmware" must-have's / nice to have's

2016-11-15 Thread gregebert
*Jonathan* - Are you running in an Arduino environment, or is the AT328 essentially standalone ? I'm planning to switch to Arduino for my current/future projects, so this is definitely something I'm interested in. One thing I suggest is a 'scramble table' that allows you to handle arbitrary ma

Re: [neonixie-l] "Firmware" must-have's / nice to have's

2016-11-15 Thread Paolo Cravero
Hello Jonathan. First of all, thank you for sharing your work. While I grew up surrounded by RS232 cables, the serial setup sounds not practical and user friendly. In a couple of my firmwares I hardcoded DST changeovers for 100 years (eats up 100 bytes): you only need to reset the clock at a know

[neonixie-l] "Firmware" must-have's / nice to have's

2016-11-15 Thread SWISSNIXIE - Jonathan F.
Hi I know a lot of people here have assembled kits or build there own clock. For driving nixies there are not too many different ways. Since im more "builder" than "programmer" i want to make a firmware thats really good, and use the same firmware for all my future clock projects, so i don't n