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Quick idea.. Not sure if it's the right place, but here goes..

So one of the latest additions/changes in Anduril were the 5C & 5H to choose between Manual/Auto On Memory and also, the 2C from Off changed from a Turbo shortcut to a Ceil shortcut

That just made me think.. why not combining these into something as follows:

- 1C - Revert to Auto Memory (basically whatever brightness state you've left your light Off, it should be memorized for the next Poer On by 1C - pretty much the old behavior)

- Remove either 5C or 5H and leave only one of them as the Manual / Default On Memory - Say.. Ramp to whatever you want > and 5C would memorize that level..

- Remap 2C from Off (Ceil Shortcut) to the memorized Manual / Default On Memory - also this way you are avoiding a duplicate 1C/2C (Turbo wasn't a Manual memorized level anyways)

So.. 1C - Standard Auto Memory / 2C - Manual / Default Memory - This way, you still have the Manual On Memory and a configurable pre-set level of brightness (Up to Ceil if needed)

The way Turbo was reached in the latest revisions was still 2C > 2C anyways, regardless if 2C was straight to Ceil or if by the above, it would be configurable to something else.

Thoughts.. ?

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That didn’t change. It has had the same behavior since literally day 1.

It’s very unlikely to change, because it would eliminate one or more of the core UI requirements the design was built around. The idea was to provide, at minimum, the following:

From off:

  • A shortcut to the lowest level.
  • A shortcut to the highest level.
  • A shortcut to the memorized level.

While on:

  • 1 click to turn off.
  • An easy way to go up in brightness.
  • An easy way to go down in brightness.
  • A shortcut to/from turbo.

Those things aren’t going to change. The user can configure the meaning of “lowest”, “highest”, and “memorized”, though.

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So, I don't really follow.. about the 2C from Off shortcut - that didn't changed since Day 1 as in it was always a shortcut to Ceil or always a shortcut to Turbo ?

In the anduril.txt I can see it was always a shortcut to Turbo.. ?

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From off it’s a shortcut to ceil, from on it jumps to turbo.

101

I just got my Sofirm SP 36 BLF and was going through Anduril menu. I need a little help.I am trying to find steps to dim the locator light on the switch. Is it possible to do this? Just trying to save battery drain. Thanks

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From Off, 7C (7 quick clicks) cycles you to the next switch backlight mode.

The modes should be Low, High, Flash/Breath, and off.
(not necessarily in that exact order)

If 7C from Off doesn’t do anything, are you in Momentary or Muggle mode?

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My wife is a bit of a horror freak, Walking Dead is her fav series, curiously she also binge watches the Hallmark channel.
Anyway she has set up a graveyard scene on our front yard, 7 tombstones top off piles of leaves shaped as fresh dug graves, complete w/skeleton climbing out of one of them. She asked iffn I could light it for her. I showed her the lightning feature of Anduril……

Now I’m waiting till dark to go out in the chill air and play roadie lightshow guy with a ROT66, E07 and D4V2 positioned in various trees around her macabre creation.

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I accidentally changed the smooth ramp config, now it goes up all the way to turbo. Please help me go back to default.
The procedure is to click 4 times while on the smooth ramp mode.
Then 1 click on First prompt(floor).

Now How many clicks on 2nd prompt(ceiling) to go back to its default from factory?

Thanks TK

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Iirc, default max ramp is 120 out of 150 thus, 30 clicks.

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Should be something like. turn it on then.

  1. 4 clicks to enter Ramp config
  2. 1st flare, do nothing
  3. 2nd flare, click 1+Turbo - N. That is default ceiling 120/150, so click 30 times.
107

120 is right but it takes 31 clicks (1st click = 150).

I did that wrong a couple of times myself.

108

Please tell me how to configure the strobe for Emisar D 1

109

Does anyone know if the Astrolux EC01 firmware version is available anywhere ? I can't seem to find it in the repository.

110

Can anyone who owns an FW1a tell me if it has the Manual Memory option? (5 clicks to memorize a user defined level)

thanks

Anduril is an Amazingly feature rich UI!

is there an easy way for a muggle to update an FW1a to the latest Anduril version?

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Depends on which model of light it is. Each model has different default ramp settings, because each model has different hardware and power levels.

If it’s a pretty recent item, the factory reset function should work. But that wasn’t available until a few months ago.

I don’t have a version for that light, so it’s not in the repository. I’d have to look it up to even find out what the EC01 is.

Mine doesn’t. It has an older version. :frowning:

No clue if there are any newer ones with newer firmware though. Lumintop is kind of all over the place with the FW3A derivatives, and I haven’t been involved in any of them except the purple one. I asked recently why they’re still shipping with old firmware, and didn’t get a useful answer.

So… many probably need to be updated, and it’s kind of a pain to do. I haven’t even updated mine yet.

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So the Astrolux EC01 is basically using their own edit version of Anduril I'll take it. I was just trying to get the AUX lights from my D4V2 driver to work in a different host with a bicolor indicator switch LED, pretty much exactly how the one on the EC01 is. So far I've got it working somewhat, but given my coding.. non skills I think I've kinda made a mess of an edit. I've got it to light up constantly and only in the Batt status mode, but haven't really got a way for the 7C/7H to basically toggle it On/Off at least. It's a bit of a mess and I hate having it like that :))

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thank you for the info, and all your contributions

114

Is there some better way of guessing which firmware version is installed (for earlier Anduril versions that didn’t have the version check function)?

I’ve jotted down some of my own “testing” notes (copied/paraphrased from the official Anduril changelog), to try to determine approximately (between) which date is the firmware version, by testing these (functions that can relatively easily be tested):

Anduril firmware revision changes:
2018-12-14: fancy aux-LED (button switch LED) blinking mode (like heartbeat breathing effect) on BLF Q8/SP36
2019-05-22: 2-level lockout (4-clicks); momentary strobe mode possible (go to strobe modes before going to momentary mode)
2019-06-02: manual memory option (5H) ; button-release time-out is a bit faster
2019-06-27: factory reset function (hold button while tightening the tailcap)
2019-09-24: version-check function (15C) ; safety ramp-down if button held too long ; Emisar D18 & Astrolux MF01-Mini doesn’t have Muggle mode anymore (not fit)
2019-09-29: after safety ramp-down, also lockout the light

(later Anduril versions will have the version check, so just do the version check to find out the revision)

So, by testing an unknown Anduril version flashlight, and let’s say it doesn’t have the heartbeat blinking mode, it must have Anduril firmware earlier than 2018-12-14 (eg. the Fireflies gen 1 flashlights).

So, if the Anduril-based flashlight has 2-level lockout but not the manual-memory option, then it must be firmware 2019-05-22 or later, but earlier than 2019-06-02.

For the other firmwares in between, there are more difficult to detect (eg. I think somewhere between firmware 2018-12-14 and 2019-05-22, there were listed changes in how candle mode works, and also I think the temperature control — but these may be harder to visually determine (unlike those changes that can be “tested” by doing some clicks to check if it has that ‘feature’).

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Unfortunately, no. There isn’t an easy way to do it. That’s why I finally added a version check.

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