New Convoy C8 – Clearly better

0.1 - 0.3 - 1 - 3 - 10 - 30 - 100 is better spacing.
Every time multiply by 3

Yes, because what can seem like good spacing in your mind, does not look like good spacing to your eye. Still, you can try for yourself with custom programming. Enjoy! Lol

The point is that it’s not linear but logarithmic.
You could double it each time if you want smaller steps.

well I had few errors like missing this and that whenever I try to build it with atmel studio.
turns out I need to associate with some external files which are available from toykeeper subcategory but that introduces new problems

I should really learn how to c programming one day

Yeah, getting atmel setup can be hard, thats why I just use linux to compile now, no such complaining.

I may be biased, but it really does seem a lot easier to do this stuff in Linux. Paste in a couple commands to set things up the first time, then a couple more for each build/flash. That’s about it. No need to go menu diving, manually importing files, or finding obscure settings in the GUI.

Linux is consistently the better option as long as you have the least bit of experience with a command prompt and programming language. A college freshman or amateur enthusiast can do wonders already.

I’ll echo the above comments. I solely use Linux and it’s a cinch for firmware programming on.

I appreciate all that but I don’t know Linux. I wish I did but if wishes were fishes I’d have a SWEEEEEET sushi bar setup… :person_facepalming:

:sushi: Linux is pretty easy these days. I have only played with a few flavours (settled on elementary) and most of them had easy to follow guides on how to make a bootable USB drive if you don’t want to worry about partitioning, from there it should be mostly cutting and pasting. If you run into troubles I am sure some of the cool kids that know linux well could help you out.

You can use atmel but good luck getting it to compile, I think Tom posted some ready to compile exports from atmel to make it easier at some point.

As was said if you have a spare USB drive laying around it is really quite simple to install a “live USB” version of linuix on a USB drive and simply boot your computer to that when you want to use it.

I have a USB drive with a half dozen linux installs along with every utility I have come across that can be run from the command prompt. I even have a full windows 8.1 install on a USB drive.

Any tutorial for Linux which I can read?
Surely I would love learn simple code for my needs.
Not Linux expert, but I can understand both Win and *nix.

That sounds like a nice alternative option. I used to run a version of Knoppix (old Linux build) off a CD and that was pretty simple to use. I’d ask Tom about that but he doesn’t respond to my PMs anymore. :frowning:

+1 for Ubuntu Linux or one if it’s official flavors (Xubuntu, Lubunut, Kubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, etc) loaded onto a USB drive. It’s typically much easier than you’d imagine and it doesn’t make any changes to your hard drive (unless you specifically tell it to).

New arrival, ohhhhh !!!

Is there something wrong with my C8?

My set up is with memory turned off. Every time I switch it on, the light will flicker/strobe before it goes into moonlight mode. Is that normal?

Yes, I have the same problem, waiting for the seller’s (Simon from Convoy store) feedback.

From where have you bought yours?

The problem is that the light enters into group selection mode every time you switch it on. Unfortunately it is something that you can only possibly fix with driver reprogramming.

There is a detailed explanation here: link

Are these working as they should? Isn’t there a few blinks every time you switch them on?

Hi Benoe, got it from Convoy store in Aliexpress as well.

In my case, that doesn’t seems to be group selection mode. Seems to me it’s in normal operating mode. Just that the light flickers some kinda code (doesn’t look like a random blink) before it goes to the default moonlight mode.

Will check out the link, thanks.

Mine doesn’t do that. I have mine programmed to group #3 with memory