Are sub-second pulse times possible?

[xoseperez]

Originally reported by: Stephan Winokur (Bitbucket: swinokur, GitHub: swinokur)

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Hi,
Loving this firmware! One thing that would be useful to me, is the ability to have pulse times that are less than a second - I'm using relays to do "button presses" and a 1 second button press is a long time for a button to be held "down."

thanks!

[xoseperez]

Original comment by Lauris Ieviņš (Bitbucket: laurisievins, GitHub: Unknown):

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Ticker library, which is used to time pulses, has a 1ms resolution, so technically it is possible to have shorter pulses. Problem here is that currently there is no way to specify sub-second time in web interface. The easiest way to implement this would probably be to change the value to be in milliseconds instead of seconds, but then this change has to be made backward compatible, so that after firmware upgrade pulse does not become 1000 times shorter (e.g. 1ms instead of 1s).
How short you need the pulse to be? Is 1s really too long for you?

[xoseperez]

The other ways would be to 1) accept decimal values in the web interface (kind of ugly but backwards compatible) or 2) have to radio buttons to specify the unit, seconds (default) or milliseconds

[xoseperez]

Original comment by Lauris Ieviņš (Bitbucket: laurisievins, GitHub: Unknown):

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I have experimented with this and decimal values work just fine. Tricky thing is to validate the input in web interface. I can create a pull request with what I have so far if it is fine with you.

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