Hi

Yes, Noticed that a couple of days ago as I was on a drive to camping – It will be fixed in the next version due out in a couple of days, sorry about that!

Should be fixed in the version released today!

Quote from 540-S3 on May 11, 2011
Would be nice to have a shift light plugin. Any takers?
I don’t really think it’s that hard to know when to shift to tell you the truth.

Quote from admin on August 24, 2011
Hi

The AIDL plugin API has just been updated in the latest version (get it from the link in the first post on this thread) includes several improvements including the ability to get information about the vehicle from the vehicle profile

Could you please advise me on how i use this update?

Thanks James.

Hi

If you are a developer, and want to create new plugins, then you will need to download the torque-aidl2.zip file mentioned in the first post on this thread.

Then you create a new Android project (maybe using something like Eclipse) and import the AIDL file into the project and start using it.

If you’re a user, then you don’t need to do anything – the api is part of the new Torque Pro update sent out on the Android Market so all you need to do is update the app

Quote from 540-S3 on May 11, 2011
Would be nice to have a shift light plugin. Any takers?

Well, I cobbled something together as my first Android app
It’s pretty simple – a row of 20 LEDs in the landscape mode on a black background:

6 green, 6 yellow, 6 orange and 2 red. There is a rather ugly dialog to enter the shift RPM value.

At run-time, the LEDs will we displayed based on the current RPM.

I will test it for a bit more and then will make it available somehow to those who’d like to try it.

Alarms are checked periodically for triggers, about once a second or so, maximum so would won’t be good enough (I might look at improving this a little without it affecting PID read speeds…)

sasha, don’t take criticisms too harsly it’s all good, and you get a lot of people sharing their views on how best to do things, they just want to help see something good come out of it that they’d like to use 😉

(I like the graphics btw, they’re better than things I can draw :-))

Quote from admin on September 14, 2011
Alarms are checked periodically for triggers, about once a second or so, maximum so would won’t be good enough (I might look at improving this a little without it affecting PID read speeds…)

sasha, don’t take criticisms too harsly it’s all good, and you get a lot of people sharing their views on how best to do things, they just want to help see something good come out of it that they’d like to use 😉

(I like the graphics btw, they’re better than things I can draw :-))

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Ian, it’s all good, I agree. I guess people not interested in the plug-in won’t install it – it’s that simple

As for the graphics, I probably draw worse (much worse!) than you. They bitmaps came from here: http://www.clker.com/clipart-6518.html

I was going to ask you what is the maximum rate at which it’s safe to call into the app to get the RPM (or any other PID)? I’m doing this every 100 ms now.

Cheers and thank you for providing the app, the platform to develop and the forum

.a

Quote from admin on September 14, 2011

Have fun coding the plugin! I get a fair few feature requests for a shift-light plugin so you should have a good reception if you release it!

Regards

Ian

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Ian,
Great, thanks for the info! I’m planning on releasing the source, so maybe you could add it your sample plug-in page?

cheers,
.a

Ah, you want to store the shift point in each profile

I’ll see what I can do for the next update. Don’t mind linking to the app if you host it somewhere (sf.net, google code might be useful), even a market version if you pay the to become a dev, you can then upload to the market (either free of paid)

EDIT: done. You’ll have the following in the next update this weekend/monday:

   /**
    * Store some information into the vehicle profile. 
    *
    * @param key  Prefix the 'key' with your apps classpath (to avoid conflicts). eg: "com.company.pluginname.SOME_KEY_NAME" is nice and clear  (Don't use any characters other than A-Za-z0-9 . and _)
    * @param The value to store.
    * @param saveToFile Set this to true (on your last 'set') to commit the information to disk.
    * @return 0 if successful.
    */
    int storeInProfile(String key, String value, boolean saveToFileNow);
    
    
   /**
    * Retrieve some information from the vehicle profile.
    *
    * @param Prefix the 'key' with your apps classpath (to avoid conflicts). 
    */
    String retrieveProfileData(String key);