DickyOZ
October 28, 2019, 12:01pm
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The LCD odometer on my 1998 Delica has been weeping for some time now. It has got to the point that I must do something about it if I want to be able to read it in the future. They don't make speedo heads for such old vehicles anymore, and scrap ones are as bad as the one I have got. My easiest option is to tap into the speedometer sensor input wire under the dash and count the pulses. I have found the wire and according to the Delica club forum I should get 2550 pulses/klm. From the pulses I can easily determine speed and distance traveled. I had planned to use a Wemos D1 Mini to count the pulses and drive an LCD display through I2C and mount it on the dash. That is also easy enough to do, but the problem is how do I retain the odometer values when the engine is switched off.
Is there any way to access the Wemos flash memory by code and use it for non-volatile memory? Or do I have to use a device that can access an SD card?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Do a Google search for SPIFFS and/or EEPROM
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The ESP8266 handles EEPROM different from the Arduino. Here is a sketch that I found on the Google machine a few months ago, edited for readability.
#include <EEPROM.h>
void setup() {
Serial.begin(115200);
while (!Serial) {}
Serial.println();
Serial.println("EEPROM_esp8266_example.ino");
/* Using the ESP8266 EEPROM is different from the standard Arduino EEPROM class.
You need to call EEPROM.begin(size) before you can start reading or writing, where
the size parameter is the number of bytes you want to use store
Size can be anywhere between a minimum of 4 and maximum of 4096 bytes.
*/
EEPROM.begin(32); //EEPROM.begin(Size)
/*
Commands EEPROM.write or EEPROM.put do not write to flash immediately, to invoke them
you must call EEPROM.commit() to save changes to flash/EEPROM.
EEPROM.end() will also commit, but releases the RAM copy of EEPROM contents.
*/
// Commands to determine variable sizes, needed for storing to EEPROM
Serial.println();
Serial.println(" Floating point variables need: " + String(sizeof(float)) + " Bytes"); // Determine how many bytes (4) are needed to save a floating point variable
Serial.println("Double size floating point variables need: " + String(sizeof(double)) + " Bytes"); // Determine how many bytes (8) are needed to save a floating point variable
Serial.println(" Integer variables need: " + String(sizeof(int)) + " Bytes"); // Determine how many bytes (4) are needed to save an integer variable
Serial.println(" Boolean values or variables need: " + String(sizeof(bool)) + " Bytes"); // Determine how many bytes (1) are needed to save a boolean variable
Serial.println(" String variables need at least: " + String(sizeof(String)) + " Bytes"); // Determine how many bytes (min. 12) are needed to save a string variable
Serial.println();
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Example-1 Write a value to EEPROM at address = 0
int EEaddress = 0;
EEPROM.write(EEaddress, 123); // Writes the value 123 to EEPROM
// 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 // Contents of EEPROM
// 7B 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 // Contents of RAM
EEPROM.commit();
// 7B 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 // Contents of EEPROM
// Serial.print(F("Write a value: 123 to EEPROM at address = 0"));
Serial.print("EEPROM contents at Address=0 is : ");
Serial.println(EEPROM.read(EEaddress));
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Example-2 Write a value to EEPROM at address = 0
// 7B 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 // Contents of EEPROM
EEPROM.write(EEaddress, 257); // Writes the value 257 to EEPROM
EEPROM.commit();
// 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 // Contents of EEPROM
Serial.print("EEPROM contents at Address=0 is : ");
Serial.println(EEPROM.read(EEaddress));
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Example-3 Write an integer variable to EEPROM at address = 0
int integer_variable = 257;
// 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 // Contents of EEPROM
EEPROM.put(EEaddress, integer_variable); // Writes the value 257 to EEPROM
EEPROM.commit();
// 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 // Contents of EEPROM
Serial.print("EEPROM contents at Address=0 is : ");
EEPROM.get(EEaddress, integer_variable);
Serial.println(integer_variable);
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Example-4 Write another integer variable to EEPROM
int integer_variable2 = 1234;
EEaddress = EEaddress + sizeof(int); // Moves the address along by 4
EEPROM.put(EEaddress, integer_variable2); // Writes the value 1234 to EEPROM
EEPROM.commit();
// 01 01 00 00 D2 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 // Contents of EEPROM
Serial.print("EEPROM contents at Address=4 is : ");
EEPROM.get(EEaddress, integer_variable2);
Serial.println(integer_variable2);
EEaddress = EEaddress + sizeof(int); // Moves the address along by 4
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Example-5 Write a floating point variable to EEPROM
float floatingpoint_variable = 3.141592654;
EEPROM.put(EEaddress, floatingpoint_variable); // Writes the value 3.141592654 to EEPROM
EEPROM.commit();
Serial.print("EEPROM contents at Address=8 is : ");
EEPROM.get(EEaddress, floatingpoint_variable);
Serial.println(floatingpoint_variable, 8);
EEaddress = EEaddress + sizeof(float); // Moves the address along by 4
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Example-6 Write a string variable to EEPROM
String string_variable = "Hello world";
EEPROM.put(EEaddress, string_variable); // Writes the value 3.141592654 to EEPROM
EEPROM.commit();
Serial.print("EEPROM contents at Address=12 is : ");
EEPROM.get(EEaddress, string_variable);
Serial.println(string_variable);
EEaddress = EEaddress + sizeof(string_variable); // Moves the address along by 4
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Example-7 Write a series of values to EEPROM
for (int i = 1000; i <= 1032; i = i + 4) {
EEPROM.put(i - 1000, i); // Address range 0-32
}
EEPROM.commit();
for (int j = 1000; j <= 1032; j = j + 4) {
EEPROM.get((j - 1000), integer_variable); // Read the 32 values
Serial.println(integer_variable);
}
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Example-8 Testing that the EEPROM extent has not been exceeded, remember not to exceed address space
if (EEaddress == 32) {
EEaddress = 0;
}
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Example-9 Compact method of writing and reading values from EEPROM
EEaddress = 20;
// Writing
floatingpoint_variable = 2 * PI;
EEaddress += EEPROM.put(EEaddress, floatingpoint_variable);
integer_variable = 123456789;
EEaddress += EEPROM.put(EEaddress, integer_variable);
EEPROM.end();
EEaddress = 20;
// Reading
EEaddress += EEPROM.get(EEaddress, floatingpoint_variable);
EEaddress += EEPROM.get(EEaddress, integer_variable);
EEPROM.commit();
Serial.println(floatingpoint_variable, 7);
Serial.println(integer_variable);
}
void loop() {}
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DickyOZ
October 28, 2019, 10:14pm
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Many thanks Steve. Project underway
