The 'BYTE' keyword is no longer supported error

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Hi,

I'm trying to get a this camera running on a Intel Galileo 2 board it comes with example code that relies on the SoftwareSerial library.

http://linksprite.com/wiki/index.php5?title=JPEG_2M_Pixel_Color_Camera_Serial_Interface(TTL_level)

I'm getting this error:

camera.ino:115: error: The 'BYTE' keyword is no longer supported.
As of Arduino 1.0, the 'BYTE' keyword is no longer supported.
Please use Serial.write() instead.

I tried change all the mySerial.print(0x56, BYTE); to mySerial.write(0x56) but I get another error saying

exit status 1
call of overloaded 'write(int)' is ambiguous

Would anybody know what is wrong?

Thanks

/* Linksprite */
 
#include <SoftwareSerial_Class.h>

SoftwareSerial mySerial(2, 3); // RX, TX
 
byte incomingbyte;                   //Configure pin 4 and 5 as soft serial port
int a=0x0000,j=0,k=0,count=0;                    //Read Starting address       
uint8_t MH,ML;
boolean EndFlag=0;
 
void SendResetCmd();
void SendTakePhotoCmd();
void SendReadDataCmd();
void StopTakePhotoCmd();
 
void setup()
{ 
  Serial.begin(19200);
  mySerial.begin(38400);
}
 
void loop() 
{
     SendResetCmd();
     delay(4000);                               //After reset, wait 2-3 second to send take picture command
 
      SendTakePhotoCmd();
 
     while(mySerial.available()>0)
      {
        incomingbyte=mySerial.read();
 
      }   
      byte a[32];
 
      while(!EndFlag)
      {  
         j=0;
         k=0;
         count=0;
         SendReadDataCmd();
 
         delay(25);
          while(mySerial.available()>0)
          {
               incomingbyte=mySerial.read();
               k++;
               if((k>5)&&(j<32)&&(!EndFlag))
               {
               a[j]=incomingbyte;
               if((a[j-1]==0xFF)&&(a[j]==0xD9))      //Check if the picture is over
               EndFlag=1;                           
               j++;
         count++;
               }
          }
 
          for(j=0;j<count;j++)
          {   if(a[j]<0x10)
              Serial.print("0");
              Serial.print(a[j],HEX);
              Serial.print(" ");
          }                                       //Send jpeg picture over the serial port
          Serial.println();
      }      
     while(1);
}
 
//Send Reset command
void SendResetCmd()
{
      mySerial.print(0x56, BYTE);
      mySerial.print(0x00, BYTE);
      mySerial.print(0x26, BYTE);
      mySerial.print(0x00, BYTE);
}
 
//Send take picture command
void SendTakePhotoCmd()
{
      mySerial.print(0x56, BYTE);
      mySerial.print(0x00, BYTE);
      mySerial.print(0x36, BYTE);
      mySerial.print(0x01, BYTE);
      mySerial.print(0x00, BYTE);  
}
 
//Read data
void SendReadDataCmd()
{
      MH=a/0x100;
      ML=a%0x100;
      mySerial.print(0x56, BYTE);
      mySerial.print(0x00, BYTE);
      mySerial.print(0x32, BYTE);
      mySerial.print(0x0c, BYTE);
      mySerial.print(0x00, BYTE); 
      mySerial.print(0x0a, BYTE);
      mySerial.print(0x00, BYTE);
      mySerial.print(0x00, BYTE);
      mySerial.print(MH, BYTE);
      mySerial.print(ML, BYTE);   
      mySerial.print(0x00, BYTE);
      mySerial.print(0x00, BYTE);
      mySerial.print(0x00, BYTE);
      mySerial.print(0x20, BYTE);
      mySerial.print(0x00, BYTE);  
      mySerial.print(0x0a, BYTE);
      a+=0x20;                            //address increases 32，set according to buffer size
}
 
void StopTakePhotoCmd()
{
      mySerial.print(0x56, BYTE);
      mySerial.print(0x00, BYTE);
      mySerial.print(0x36, BYTE);
      mySerial.print(0x01, BYTE);
      mySerial.print(0x03, BYTE);        
}
2

I think you can just cast it to a byte and it will work

3

mySerial.print(0x56, BYTE);becomes mySerial.write((unsigned char)0x56);

4

conor1:
Would anybody know what is wrong?

You are trying to combine a software library from the age of the dinosaurs with a recent Arduino-IDE.

Use a more recent library instead!

Or use your library from the age of the dinosaurs with an Arduino-IDE which is also that old!

5

It would be helpful if the libraries were updated.

For example, the MAX6675 library.

I was recently advised to use it by a critic in this forum and they didn't take this matter into consideration.

Back to the drawing board...

It looks like noobs need to learn how to write their own libraries!

6

It would be helpful if the libraries were updated. For example, the MAX6675 library.

Which MAX6675 library are you looking at ? I wouldn't expect BYTE to appear except in the examples, and The Adafruit Library looks like it has in fact been updated. (The Adafruit library appears first on a Google web search, and first in the Arduino Library manager list...)