On an ESP8266, a LUA tmr.create() fails. Just a single line of code from the nodemcu docs. I've yet to get this working; stumped; have found nothing on the 'net here or forums. Posted in several other places with no replies. Odd
Basic node commands work. And, here's the thing that's getting me: some timer functions work - for instance tmr.alarm() does - but tmr.create() doesn't.
QUESTION 1: if the tmr module is loaded, isn't the entire module loaded, not just parts of it?
When I try this one line copied directly from the NodeMCU docs, it fails:
local mytimer = tmr.create()
with the usual message, I understand to mean an object is undefined:
stdin:1: attempt to call field 'create' (a nil value)
QUESTION 2: What am I missing or doing wrong?
Nodemcu's flasher successfully sent its default
INTERNAL://NODEMCU # 0x00000
NodeMCU 0.9.5 build 20150318
The board is an Adafruit Huzzah ESP8266, not a NodeMCU board. They both use the same ESP12, I think, so that shouldn't matter (or I hope it doesn't :-/)
NodeMCU 0.9.5 build 20150318
There's your culprit. That version is ancient. create() was added much later. Build a recent version from the master branch, https://nodemcu.readthedocs.io/en/master/en/build/ (note master in the URL), and flash that one.
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since I started working with my modules esp8266 F-12, I have found some strange behaviors. When I started programming the module using the serial monitor I had no problem, but when I do it automatically like ``````
wifi.println("AT+CWMODE=3");
delay(1000);
while(wifi.available()){
char car=wifi.read();
String info+=car
}
Serial.println(info);
Then, the module runs without printing nothing, but sometimes it does what I want him to d'o, but some other times is not doing anything until I send the command via serial. Has someone some Idea? Thanks
The AT-Command Set doc says "AT commands end with a new line (CR LF)".
Have you tried sending CR LF explicitly?
wifi.write("+++\r\n");
I directly copy-pasted the dht.md example from the official NodeMCU GitHub into my Script window like so:
But upon saving to ESP8266 I get an error:
init.lua:3: attempt to index global 'dht' (a nil value)
Which NodeMcu firmware (version) do you use?
Make sure you get (build) the latest (1.5.1), easiest to get it from here:
http://nodemcu-build.com/
And -make sure- you click the little box saying 'DHT' there.
In a mozille extension I run:
SecSess.Logger.info("ctypes test");
Components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/ctypes.jsm");
SecSess.Logger.info("1");
this.lib = ctypes.open("libcrypto.so");
SecSess.Logger.info("2");
var a = new Uint8Array(1<<10);
SecSess.Logger.info("3");
var ptr = new ctypes.uint8_t.ptr(a.buffer);
SecSess.Logger.info("4");
Why this ugly logging after each step you might ask? Well this code fails without showing me an error. (or at least I can't find the error message)
This is printed:
ctypes test
1
2
3
So the 5th log message is never printed which means the following statement never completes:
var ptr = new ctypes.uint8_t.ptr(a.buffer);
This is a simplified version of some old code I have to work with and which I also found online as being valid. However it doesn't work. This add-on wasn't developped using the new SDK with jpm. Quite frankly I don't know how and when it was developped but I need to run some tests on it. It comes with a few source files ordered in a components and a modules directory and a chrome.manifest and install.rdf in the root. I copied these files to the extension directory of Mozilla in order for it to work. The extension executes but there seems to be a problem with ctypes. Aren't ctypes fully supported anymore or are these old style add-on no longer valid for the modern Firefox?
Regards,
Roel
I think they landed a a patch to disallow making a pointer from buffers. I'll double check.
Edit:
Ah per this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/js-ctypes/Using_js-ctypes/Working_with_ArrayBuffers, you don't have to wrap it with a ctypes.uint8_t.ptr just pass it like a.buffer to wherever you need it. :)
So i got a new keyboard wit hG-keys. (hotkeys) And i'm not familiar with lua...
So could anybody give me a very simple command that sets my pc to sleep? please?
if gkey == 7 and mkey == 1 then
if event == "G_PRESSED" then
end
end
gkeys
so gkey is the key that is pressed, and mkey is the set it uses. i can have up to 54 differint scripts/macro's.
I want to know what i have to put after the last 'then' so my pc goes to sleep.
thx ahead
edit 1:
got this:
if gkey == 1 and mkey == 3 then
if event == "G_PRESSED" then
execute("rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0");
end
end
error is: [string "LuaVM"]:40: attempt to call global 'execute'(a nil value)
and with os.execute i get this error:
[string "LuaVM"]:40: attempt to index global 'os'(a nil value)
final answer: not possible with gseries keyboard. use a shortcut
Given the reference to G-keys and the G_PRESSED in your code snippet, I am assuming you have one of the Logitech G-Series keyboards. These keyboards can be programmed so that certain keys run Lua scripts using a custom Lua 5.1 interpreter. The documentation is included with Logitech's Gaming Software program.
According to the documentation, only some of the standard library functions are supported: the string, math and table are available. However, the io, os and debug libraries are not available.
So I doubt you'll be able to make your PC go to sleep.
EDIT in response to OP edit: the Lua library you have access to has the os library removed, so you're probably not going to be able to make your computer sleep directly.
There might be an indirect way to do this by writing something that listens for debugging messages, which you can generate with OutputDebugMessage. There's a Team Speak plugin that does this. But it's probably beyond your programming ability right now and far beyond the scope of a Stackoverflow post to explain.
You can use os.execute to run an executable from Lua.
If you google "Windows sleep command line" you'll get another Stackoverflow post which shows two ways of doing it. One requires that you turn hibernation off, the other requires that you download an additional utility (PsShutdown).
Assuming you've downloaded PsShutdown and put it somewhere in your PATH, then you can use the following to sleep the computer:
os.execute('psshutdown -d -t 0')
I use VLC media player 1.1.9 on Ubuntu 11.04. I'm trying to experiment with lua extensions for VLC; so I've added the file test.lua in ~/.local/share/vlc/lua/extensions/, which has only these two lines:
fps="25.000"
frame_duration=1/tonumber(fps)
When I run vlc with verbose output for debugging, I get (edited to split on multiple lines:):
$ vlc --verbose 2
...
[0xa213874] lua generic warning: Error loading script
~/.local/share/vlc/lua/extensions/test.lua:
.../.local/share/vlc/lua/extensions/test.lua:2:
attempt to call global 'tonumber' (a nil value)
...
Now, as far as I know, tonumber as function is part of Lua5.1 proper (Lua 5.1 Reference Manual: tonumber) - and on my system:
$ locate --regex 'lua.*so.*' | head -4
/usr/lib/libipelua.so.7.0.10
/usr/lib/liblua5.1.so
/usr/lib/liblua5.1.so.0
/usr/lib/liblua5.1.so.0.0.0
... apparently I do have Lua 5.1 installed.
So, why do I get an error on using tonumber here - and how can I use this (and other) standard functions in a VLC lua extension properly?
Documentation is sparse for VLC Lua extensions to say the least but I did find an example in the github vlc repository here: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/master/share/lua/extensions/VLSub.lua
Judging from that example it appears you need to supply some basic event functions for your addon for VLC to call into when certain events happen. Some of the obvious callback handlers I've noticed:
descriptor, this should return a table that contains fields describing your addon.
activate, this seems to get called when you activate it from view menubar.
deactivate, called when you deactivate the addon from view menubar.
plus a couple of other functions like close and input_change which you can guess what they're for.
From my brief testing done on VLC 2.0.8 under Win7 it appears VLC loads the lua extension using an empty sandbox environment. This is likely the reason you're getting nil for tonumber and I'm betting none of the other standard lua functions are accessible either when you try to perform computation at this global scope.
However, if I move that code into one of the event handling functions then all those standard functions are accessible again. For example:
function descriptor()
return
{
title = "Test Ext";
version = "0.1";
author = "";
shortdesc = "Testing Lua Extension";
capabilities = {};
description = "VLC Hello Test Addon";
}
end
function activate()
print "test activating"
local fps = tonumber "25.000"
local frame_duration = 1 / fps
print(frame_duration)
return true
end
-- ...
That prints out what you would expect in the console debug log. Now the documentation (what little there is) doesn't mention any of this but what's probably happening here is VLC is injecting the standard lua functions and vlc api table into the sandboxed environment when any of these event handlers get called. But during the extension loading phase, it is done in an empty sandbox environment which explains why all those lua function calls end up being nil when you try to use it at the outter most scope.
I recommend cloning the VLC source tree from github and then performing a grep on the C source that's embedding lua to see what VLC is really doing behind the scenes. Most of the relevant code will likely be here: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/tree/master/modules/lua
Probably some extension script installed in your system overwrites the function and the Lua interpreter instance is shared between all extension scripts, so you end up not being able to call the function if that script is called before yours.
As a quick workaround, Lua being dynamically typed, you can still do things like:
1 / "25.000"
and the string will be coerced to a number.
Alternatively, you can define a tonumber equivalent like:
string_to_num = function(s) return s + 0 end
This again relies on dynamic typing.