What's New

What's New in Version 0.82?

• Added backlash compensation for each motor axis (adjust direction changes by up to 255 steps)
• Added backlash compensation setting to serial protocol
• Added fire camera now serial protocol command
• Added success/failure response to serial protocol, including a noop command for testing connectivity
• Added ability to request operating parameters and status info to serail protocol
• Added support for fourth motor axis
• Added support for bringing focus pin high with shutter pin (for nikons and related)
• Added serial command for focus pin high w/ shutter pin
• Added support for motor kill (sleep) shared line - disable motors between moves (save power)
• Added serial command for motor kill function
• Added support for repeat-cycle shooting
• Added support for calling actions during shot repeat cycle
• Added support for calling actions at end of shot repeat cycle
• Added support for sending motors home after shot repeat cycle
• Added support for setting minimum and maximum step rate
• Added support for modifying exposure action multiplier value (get percentages of exposure value)
• Added support for actions that only change direction/enable settings for motor
• Added support for actions that set a specified exposure time
• Added serial request timeouts - so unfinished/broken commands do not hang the engine
• Remove support for actions that divide exposure directly (merged with multiply exposure/exp mod value)
• Optmized some motor control arrays to bit flags to reduce memory usage
• Extended keyframes of each type and actions to 16
• Extended count of camera shots for keyframes from 8192 to > 268 million
• Extended steps and exposure time values used in actions to 65,536
• Fixed issue where camera would cease to fire if max_shots set
• Fixed issue where sending the motor home always went in one direction
• Fixed issue where re-enabling focus pre-tap did not work