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I have a question, how do you disable the output on pin 6 of attiny13a in blf a6 firmware. The reason i want to disable the pin 6 is i am only using the pin 5 for output on one 7135 and no connection on pin 6 (no FET or 7135). But the problem is i am getting an occasional blinking when going from high mode to moon mode or even after turning on the light where it goes to moon initially. Maybe the reason i am getting the blink is because the pin 6 is not disabled? So how can i disable it in the firmware?

    DDRB |= (1 << PWM_PIN);     // enable main channel
    DDRB |= (1 << ALT_PWM_PIN); // enable second channel

delete the first line

Thanks, i’ll try that.

Edit: I already deleted that line. There is still blinking between the transition from high to moon mode and also whenever i turn on the light. Maybe i have a bad attiny13a or 7135?

I have a question what code would I need to make a 0805 LED blink on pin 3 while the light was off say once every 5 seconds for example?

I can make it turn on with:

DDRB = (1 << PWM_PIN) | (1 << RED_PIN);
PORTB |= (1 << RED_PIN);



P.S. e-switch driver

The pre-flash is more of a hardware issue. It shows up on some drivers but not others. I’m not sure why, but no code changes I could think of had any effect on it.

First you’ll need to change what it means to be “off”. Normally the driver goes to sleep and will only be awakened by an interrupt such as pressing the e-switch.

Instead, you’ll need to give it some sort of shallower sleep, which will increase standby power and reduce battery life while “off”.

One option is to leave the CPU in a busy loop. It’s easy, but far from ideal. Another option is to enable the WDT interrupt during sleep and add code to the WDT handler to count time and blink the LED periodically. I don’t recall the details of sleep mode right now though… I’m a bit too sleepy myself to remember something I only once glanced at in a hundred-page reference manual. There is a table though, explaining different options for sleep mode and which options pay attention to which interrupts.

Sounds interesting. How complicated is this manual? Might be worth a read.
As long as it’s not significant drain I think I will be ok with it.

It’s just the standard attiny13a reference manual / data sheet from Atmel. I think they call it doc8126.pdf or something like that. It has everything you could ever possibly want to know about the tiny13.

Probably over my head but I’ll try give it a read

I am attempting to compile a version of this firmware with the 2 strobe modes removed. It appears though that I am missing a layout file and AVRStudio 5.1 aborts on the first line of the code… Where can I find that layout file? I did not see it on TK’s page last night in her section.

Thanks Matt

Could you paste the error or the whole output that AVRstudio gives you?

I will re-run the compile this evening and post it.

Atmel Studio 5.1 is pretty dated. I'm running 7.0 now, upgraded from 6.2, slightly better optimization even. Actually I never used 5.1 - started with 6.0 way back. Hhmm - not sure, maybe a header file is miss'n?

There is no AVRStudio layout file because I’ve never used AVRStudio. It’s kind of an unnecessary layer and most projects omit those files. I build it with a single short “build.sh” command, then flash it with “flash.sh”. It looks like this:

(~/src/torches/trunk/ToyKeeper/blf-a6/)-]> ../../bin/build.sh blf-a6
avr-gcc -Wall -g -Os -mmcu=attiny13 -c -std=gnu99 -DATTINY=13 -o blf-a6.o -c blf-a6.c
avr-gcc -Wall -g -Os -mmcu=attiny13 -o blf-a6.elf blf-a6.o
avr-objcopy --set-section-flags=.eeprom=alloc,load --change-section-lma .eeprom=0 --no-change-warnings -O ihex blf-a6.elf blf-a6.hex
Program:    1000 bytes (97.7% Full)
Data:         13 bytes (20.3% Full)
(~/src/torches/trunk/ToyKeeper/blf-a6/)-]> ../../bin/flash.sh blf-a6.hex

I am not very good at running a compiler. My initial problems were caused during project creation, the program in both versions wanted the .c file to be called main.c. I had to remove that file from the project after importing the desired.c file.

Here are the changes that I made, I desired to remove the both of the blinky modes so I could get to the battcheck easier.

// Hidden modes are before the lowest (moon) mode, and should be specified
// in reverse order. So, to go backward from moon to turbo to strobe to
// battcheck, use BATTCHECK,STROBE,TURBO .
#define NUM_HIDDEN 2
#define HIDDENMODES BATTCHECK,TURBO
#define HIDDENMODES_PWM PHASE,PHASE
#define HIDDENMODES_ALT 0,0 // Zeroes, same length as NUM_HIDDEN

#define TURBO 255 // Convenience code for turbo mode
#define BATTCHECK 254 // Convenience code for battery check mode
// Uncomment to enable tactical strobe mode
//#define STROBE 253 // Convenience code for strobe mode
// Uncomment to unable a 2-level stutter beacon instead of a tactical strobe
//#define BIKING_STROBE 252 // Convenience code for biking strobe mode
// comment out to use minimal version instead (smaller)
//#define FULL_BIKING_STROBE

Hey! Also gained some space on the CPU.

Studio 7 output log!!!

——— Build started: Project: BLF-A6_no_blink, Configuration: Debug AVR ———
Build started.
Project “BLF-A6_no_blink.cproj” (default targets):
Target “PreBuildEvent” skipped, due to false condition; (‘$(PreBuildEvent)’!=’‘) was evaluated as (’‘!=’‘).
Target “CoreBuild” in file “C:\Program Files (x86)\Atmel\Studio\7.0\Vs\Compiler.targets” from project “E:\AVRdude\BLF-A6_no_blink\BLF-A6_no_blink\BLF-A6_no_blink.cproj” (target “Build” depends on it):
Task “RunCompilerTask”
Shell Utils Path C:\Program Files (x86)\Atmel\Studio\7.0\shellUtils
C:\Program Files (x86)\Atmel\Studio\7.0\shellUtils\make.exe all
Building file: …/./blf-a6.c
Invoking: AVR/GNU C Compiler : 4.9.2
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Atmel\Studio\7.0\toolchain\avr8\avr8-gnu-toolchain\bin\avr-gcc.exe” -x c -funsigned-char -funsigned-bitfields -DDEBUG -I”C:\Program Files (x86)\Atmel\Studio\7.0\Packs\atmel\ATtiny_DFP\1.0.68\include” -Os -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fpack-struct -fshort-enums -g2 -Wall -mmcu=attiny13a -B “C:\Program Files (x86)\Atmel\Studio\7.0\Packs\atmel\ATtiny_DFP\1.0.68\gcc\dev\attiny13a” -c -std=gnu99 -MD -MP -MF “blf-a6.d” -MT”blf-a6.d” -MT”blf-a6.o” -o “blf-a6.o” “…/./blf-a6.c”
Finished building: …/./blf-a6.c
Building target: BLF-A6_no_blink.elf
Invoking: AVR/GNU Linker : 4.9.2
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Atmel\Studio\7.0\toolchain\avr8\avr8-gnu-toolchain\bin\avr-gcc.exe” -o BLF-A6_no_blink.elf blf-a6.o -Wl,-Map=“BLF-A6_no_blink.map” -Wl,—start-group -Wl,-lm -Wl,—end-group -Wl,—gc-sections -mmcu=attiny13a -B “C:\Program Files (x86)\Atmel\Studio\7.0\Packs\atmel\ATtiny_DFP\1.0.68\gcc\dev\attiny13a”
Finished building target: BLF-A6_no_blink.elf
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Atmel\Studio\7.0\toolchain\avr8\avr8-gnu-toolchain\bin\avr-objcopy.exe” -O ihex -R .eeprom -R .fuse -R .lock -R .signature -R .user_signatures “BLF-A6_no_blink.elf” “BLF-A6_no_blink.hex”
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Atmel\Studio\7.0\toolchain\avr8\avr8-gnu-toolchain\bin\avr-objcopy.exe” -j .eeprom —set-section-flags=.eeprom=alloc,load —change-section-lma .eeprom=0 —no-change-warnings -O ihex “BLF-A6_no_blink.elf” “BLF-A6_no_blink.eep” || exit 0
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Atmel\Studio\7.0\toolchain\avr8\avr8-gnu-toolchain\bin\avr-objdump.exe” -h -S “BLF-A6_no_blink.elf” > “BLF-A6_no_blink.lss”
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Atmel\Studio\7.0\toolchain\avr8\avr8-gnu-toolchain\bin\avr-objcopy.exe” -O srec -R .eeprom -R .fuse -R .lock -R .signature -R .user_signatures “BLF-A6_no_blink.elf” “BLF-A6_no_blink.srec”
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Atmel\Studio\7.0\toolchain\avr8\avr8-gnu-toolchain\bin\avr-size.exe” “BLF-A6_no_blink.elf”
text data bss dec hex filename
920 0 13 933 3a5 BLF-A6_no_blink.elf
Done executing task “RunCompilerTask”.
Using “RunOutputFileVerifyTask” task from assembly “C:\Program Files (x86)\Atmel\Studio\7.0\Extensions\Application\AvrGCC.dll”.
Task “RunOutputFileVerifyTask”
Program Memory Usage : 920 bytes 89.8 % Full
Data Memory Usage : 13 bytes 20.3 % Full
Done executing task “RunOutputFileVerifyTask”.
Done building target “CoreBuild” in project “BLF-A6_no_blink.cproj”.
Target “PostBuildEvent” skipped, due to false condition; (’$(PostBuildEvent)’ != ’‘) was evaluated as (’’ != ’’).
Target “Build” in file “C:\Program Files (x86)\Atmel\Studio\7.0\Vs\Avr.common.targets” from project “E:\AVRdude\BLF-A6_no_blink\BLF-A6_no_blink\BLF-A6_no_blink.cproj” (entry point):
Done building target “Build” in project “BLF-A6_no_blink.cproj”.
Done building project “BLF-A6_no_blink.cproj”.

Build succeeded.
Build: 1 succeeded or up-to-date, 0 failed, 0 skipped

K, cool!! Smile

Here is the code I’ll be referring to, Stock STAR momentary on the left, my code on the right.

It will be used in a dual switch light. As far as I can tell, whenever power is applied to the driver, it should turn on the LED in the “3” mode (max). It does do this when the power is removed while the light is on, but if the power is removed when the light is in the “0” mode (off), it comes back on in the same “0” mode after power is reapplied, instead of defaulting to “3” mode like it should. I’m sure its a quick fix, but I don’t know what it is.

Help?

Not sure if I'd depend on the mode variable initialization like that. Try setting mode_idx to 3 just before the main while loop - then there's no doubt it is set and should be acted on since last_mode_idx is set to 0 - guaranteed it's processed in the main loop.

that makes sense to me in a logical way, but not in a firmware way. I tried just throwing “mode_idx = 3” before the longest loop and it just gave me a bunch of compile errors. What do i need to do?

I think i got it working the way I want by commenting out a lot of the stuff relating to “sleep”. Will that cause me other issues, like with LVP perhaps?

New Diffcheck. (mine on the right)