AIS226DS / MOD-SMB380 I2C evaluation on LPC2378-STK

[kb1gtt]

Spot on again. Thanks. I've got another one though.

I browse to http://10.10.10.3/5MulTable.htm?J1=60.254&J2=68.954 which causes fnHandleWeb to run my newly created case 'J'. Which twice calls fnWrite(INTERNAL_ROUTE, ucMessage, HEADER_LENGTH + ucLength+2); // pass the message to the destination task

Both times it runs, INTERNAL_ROUTE is 0x00 and HEADER_LENGTH + ucLength+2 is 0x000d. ucMessage looks like this the first time through.



then the the second time through



Then in my-frist-task.c I hit this line twice as expected.

while (fnRead( PortIDInternal, ucInputMessage, HEADER_LENGTH)) {
   ucLength = fnRead( PortIDInternal, ucInputMessage, ucInputMessage[MSG_CONTENT_LENGTH]);

When stopped on the ucLength line, ucInputMessage looks like this on the first pass,



then like this on the second pass.



It appears like the second pass is rolling a bit. I expect 'E' in ucInputMessage[3] not ucInputMessage[0], so it appears for some reason the second time through it rolled down by 3 places. Perhaps I have to clean up some variable or memory between passes, I don't know at this point. Is this something that might jump out? Hmmm, could HEADER_LENGTH + ucLength+2 be wrong, I tried my best to eye ball that, but I don't really know if it's completely right. It seems like on the second pass in my-first-task, it only writes 5 characters as well. I'm not seeing why the second pass isn't giving me the message I expecting.

[kb1gtt]

It appears I have fixed this. I changed case 'J' like this

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ucMessage[ MSG_CONTENT_LENGTH ] = ucLength+2;
fnWrite(INTERNAL_ROUTE, ucMessage, HEADER_LENGTH + ucLength + 2); // pass the message to the destination task
Then my-first-task like this

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while (fnRead( PortIDInternal, ucInputMessage, EADER_LENGTH)) {
ucLength = fnRead( PortIDInternal, ucInputMessage, cInputMessage[MSG_CONTENT_LENGTH]);I'm not exactly sure why I need +2, instead of +1. I think it's because the example didn't need to copy the '/0', where I'm looking for that. With out it, I would read old junk data from prior usage.

[kb1gtt]

I'm have good success in creating a web page that allows me to configure embedded parameters via HTTP page. However I'm also trying to get a stream of binary data out of it. Right now myfirsttask runs about every .2 seconds producing new data on each pass. I'm looking to stream this data to a blah.csv file on my PC. In webinterface.c I can access the variables used by myfirsttask, which includes an instantaneous snap shot of the stream data at that point. However that data is only good for that instance. I need webinterface.c to wait until new data is ready, then send the data as its produced.

If the stream data is old and has already been sent, I currently return from webinterface.c with a length of 0. Then on the next pass if new data is available, I send it out via http. This seems to have nearly worked, except I'm wasting CPU cycles by polling with webinterface.c, and after I get two chunks of streamed data, txlength overflows and things go bad.

I've tried setting task E to suspended then in myfirsttask, I set it back to stop. I expected this to prevent the code in webinterface.c from running, however it keeps running. Which didn't work as I expected. So I wonder, am I using this correctly? Is there a way I can pause the http code until a new chunk of data is ready in myfirsttask? Perhaps I should be using passing messages but I couldn't figure out how to pass those from myfristtask to the function in webinterface.c.

I'm at a bit of a loss right now.

[kb1gtt]

Hmmm, Is fnInsertString a part of this task?

uTaskerStateChange(TASK_ETHERNET, UTASKER_SUSPENDED);

I seem to recall that this code can run from serial coms as well as Ethernet coms. Perhaps it's not stopping because it's not part of that task. I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out the included scope of TASK_ETHERNET.

[mark]

Hi

Take a look at SUPPORT_DELAY_WEB_SERVING. This can be used to delay responding until data is ready.
I never used it together with dynamic content insertion but I think that it is basically the soluton required in this case.

TCP and web handling are call-back functions from the Ethernet task - I wouldn't try suspending the Etheret task because it may result in lost Ethernet frames and probably won't help with delayed responses.

Regards

Mark

[kb1gtt]

Is there a way to use return DELAY_SERVING; from fnInsertString? I seem to have that function working from from fhHandleWeb, but it jumps off in the weeds when I run it from fnInsertString. I found this thread http://www.utasker.com/forum/index.php?topic=94.msg381#msg381 which helps me understand this delay web page thing, but I haven't figured out how to use it several times to get each piece of data.