Bad ASS Controller Release 1.8.0

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BAC 1.8.0 Changes and New Features

• New game: Keypad
• Store multiple solutions
• Configure custom events for each solution
• Monitor status and keypad activity
• Valve game revamped
• All new look
• Learning is now more simple
• The user is automatically taken to the learning screen when no sensors are stored
• The user is taken back to the game settings screen once learning is done
• Added displaying of sensor error status to game master and learn screen
• Added indicator to show if each sensor is in the solve position to game master screen
• Moved uncommonly used settings to advanced settings
• Changed name of various settings to better reflect their function
• Changed default dropouts to 1
• Changed default sensor order so that it corresponds to dip switch position instead of sensor address
• Made LEDs per valve option user configurable
• Improved reset button so that new current digit cannot match the solve digit
• Knob game revamped
• Renamed to “Rotational Array”
• All new look
• Learning is now more simple
• The user is automatically taken to the learning screen when no sensors are stored
• The user is taken back to the game settings screen once learning is done
• Added displaying of sensor error status to game master and learn screen
• Added indicator to show if each sensor is in the solve position to game master screen
• Added display order option
• Moved uncommonly used settings to advanced settings
• Changed name of various settings to better reflect their function
• Changed default dropouts to 1
• Added feature so the game cannot be solved immediately after reset and has to be moved to an unsolved state first
• Changed default sensor order so that it corresponds to dip switch position instead of sensor address
• FX60 Full Support
• Added FX60 IO support to event system, input events and setting outputs
• Input events accessible from Events settings page -> input events -> fx60 events
• Outputs can be set with Turn Output On or Turn Output Off actions
• Removed distinguishing of hiout from normal outputs
• Added table on the hardware page that shows the pin names of all FX60 IO
• Added identify button on hardware page that flashes the status led on the FX60 to allow the user to distinguish it and know it is working correctly
• Added support for FX60 to all output event
• Renaming
• Events are now renamable
• On the event settings page, each event can be renamed in the textbox
• Events will be referred to by their custom name everywhere in the BAM software as well as the network commands
• Builtin / FX60 inputs and outputs are now renamable
• Rename interface accessible from hardware page
• Network control and monitoring is backwards compatible, meaning that IO can be referred to with the old name from previous versions or the new custom name
• New NeoPixel features
• Added ability to individually address NeoPixels
• Index of strip on output (1-5 only), index of pixel, and rgb values 0-255
  Format: stripIndex.pixelIndex.red.green.blue
• Added ability to address specific sections of NeoPixels
• Index of strip on output (1-5 only), index of pixel, length of section, and rgb values 0-255
  Format: stripIndex.pixelIndex:length.red.green.blue
• Can be used through “Set Neopixels” event action or from network with channel “BACName/set/neopixels”
• Added clearing of all NeoPixel strips to all output off event

• Event actions (playing sounds, setting neopixels, etc) are now directly callable by networking software (MQTT, M3, etc)

• Payloads match the same format as when calling these through BAM event actions
• Network topics:
• Turn On Output: BACName/set/action/turnOnOutput
• Turn Off Output: BACName/set/action/turnOffOutput
• Turn On Relay: BACName/set/action/turnOnRelay
• Turn Off Relay: BACName/set/action/turnOffRelay
• Play Sprite Video: BACName/set/action/playSprite
• Loop Sprite Video: BACName/set/action/loopSprite
• Play Sound: BACName/set/action/playSound
• Loop Sound: BACName/set/action/loopSound
• Stop Sounds: BACName/set/action/stopSounds
• Call Event: BACName/set/action/callEvent
• Clear Events: BACName/set/action/clearEvents
• Set Neopixels: BACName/set/action/neopixels
• Set Rfid Output: BACName/set/action/rfidOutput
• Room Controller Updates
• Added IO monitor and input event monitor from room controller screen to the game master screen of all other games
• Changed input event monitor so it only shows events that are set up
• Added FX60 IO monitor
• Updated looks
• Swapped order of IO monitor and input event monitor
• Removed coloring from IO monitor and input event monitor
• Added color coding of IO
• Red for inputs
• Blue for outputs
• Remote Updates Changes
• Added labels to configuration fields
• Rearranged fields
• Added suggested firmware field that shows the firmware that goes with the current firmware
• Event Changes
• Split reset event into game reset and room reset. Many BACs running games are also acting as room controllers and need separate event logic
• Accessible via event settings page
• Changed default game reset event to use all outputs event instead of manually specifying outputs
• Added informational field to input events to show what pin it is triggered by
• Increased maximum size for event options from 16 to 32
• Firmware Version Changes
• Keypad and Knock Knock split into new firmware “Set B”
• Hit / Miss events added to RFID non-sequential mode.
• First pattern with the "solve" event selected is used. Hits called when proper state matched per reader. Misses called when proper state changes or active wrong state detected
• Colorized several UI pages in BAM for better readability
• Increased STAT LED blink time
• From 50ms to 100ms
• Added heartbeat reporting
• MQTT format is: BACName/get/heartbeat
• Heartbeat either reported in seconds since startup, or with timestamp if BAM 1.8 used
• Added more info to game status screen
• Includes enable status with buttons for enable and disable

BAC 1.8.0 Bug fixes

• Valve game
• Fixed bug where some sensor addresses did not work
• Symptom: Setting a sensor to a certain address would cause it to not be able to work with the game
• Fixed bug where current digit values were not updating
• Symptom: Turning the sensor would not update the value live on the page
• Fixed bug where the same address would show for all saved sensors
• Symptom: After learning the sensors and viewing them on the settings page, they would all show the same address
• Fixed bug where sensor direction would display as true instead of clockwise or counterclockwise
• Symptom: Viewing game settings page with default settings would show sensor direction as set to true
• Fixed bug where learn would not work if the game was disabled
• Symptom: Pressing the learn button while the game was disabled would have no result
• Knob game
• Fixed bug where some sensor addresses did not work
• Symptom: Setting a sensor to a certain address would cause it to not be able to work with the game
• Fixed bug where current position values were not updating
• Symptom: Turning the sensor would not update the value live on the page
• Fixed bug where the same address would show for all saved sensors
• Symptom: After learning the sensors and viewing them on the settings page, they would all show the same address
• Fixed bug where learn would not work if the game was disabled
• Symptom: Pressing the learn button while the game was disabled would have no result
• Fixed bug where center and trigger width were not saving properly when manually changed
• Symptom: After changing the values of center and trigger width, these values would not always be saved and persist after a reboot
• Fixed bug with knock sequence learning.
• Symptom: Learning a shorter sequence after learning a longer sequence would keep the tail end of the longer sequence.
• Fixed bug with RFID game when different # of saved tags vs readers used
• Symptom: Strange behavior with less tags than readers, crashes with more tags than readers
• Fixed bug with RFID game softlocking when garbage received on startup.
• Symptom: Switching BAC to RFID game would cause reset.
• Fixed bug with custom events 4-7 calling event 3 internally.
• Symptom: Calling any custom event 4-7 would trigger event 3
• Fixed bug with watchdog resetting after taking certain code paths
• Symptom: Resets after saving changes in BAM, loading new games / networks, etc.
• Fixed bug with events calling other events
• Symptom: Rare crashes when using "Call Event" action
• Fixed bug with all output setting pins that were not event outputs
• Symptom: Using the “all” option for an output event would cause pins not configured as outputs to be set causing internal errors and possibly other issues
• Fixed bug with event overrides and toggle buttons causing errors
• Symptom: Using an event override or toggling an output from the game master screen would cause internal errors and possibly other issues
• Fixed typo in phone game interface

Attachments:  06/01/2020: bac_firmware_1.8.0_combo_usb.bin
06/01/2020: bac_firmware_1.8.0_phone_usb.bin
06/01/2020: bac_firmware_1.8.0_set_b_usb.bin
06/01/2020: bac_firmware_1.8.0_standard_usb.bin
06/01/2020: bac_firmware_1.8.0_valve_usb.bin