Hi there, in todays journey with ubasic I found how to reliably turn LCD on/off, was happy until I discovered that a key pressed while the display is off is held until the display is turned on by rotating the camera.
I was planning on having a keypress turn on the display and another exit the script.
Was using the timed wait for keypress option -- worked fine while display was on, but 'stores' any key-presses while display is off, so the script doesn't see the keypress until LCD woken up by the camera rotation sensor. Any ideas how to work around this issue?
Other issue is I cannot control the LEDs, both styles of LED control (set_led x y z, blue_led_on and friends) don't do anything. The led_tst.bas script I found in the source doesn't, either. All I'm after is some form of activity indicator showing that the script is active while the display is turned off, it would be nice to get the display back for checking status without disturbing the tripod. Flashing a LED every 5 or 10 seconds is what I have in mind during the long interval periods. During last 5 seconds or so of the timelapse interval I plan to have the display turn on again to warn user the cam's about to shoot.
Also planning on setting up the manual focus again before the shoot, after display off -- at the moment my interest is timelapse sky-watching. No I'm not yet planning on calculating ephemera (sp?), I check
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/astronomy.html for sunrise / sunset times.
Downloaded and briefly toured the source, yes I can set my terminal to 180 chars wide
That's about all I learned today.
