The alarms that Edwin provided have always been great - I just didn't understand how to set and use them. My bad.
Here are some things I've learned lately and will be working on presenting tomorrow..
Blue screen= silent alarm with red color flashing
Green screen= buzzer with red color flashing
White (or very light blue?) = no alarm
Set the parrot's menu presets for the alarms with FORES being 1 on the menu list.
As each preset temperature is reached you will get an alarm depending on the screen color you have chosen.
(I'll explain in more detail later about the presets and how the alarms work).
Then
press the right arrow key once to:
(1) deactivate that alarm and
(2) advance to the next preset alarm temperature and
(3) ready the next preset alarm to activate.
Yep, all that with a single button press.
It is sometimes hard to remember that this is an Arduino sketch because it runs so effortlessly - embedded on my $3 Uno.
Edwin's Arduino sketch is crazy good and I'll need some time to document and present it to you here, so have some faith and be patient. I'll probably get to it soon, maybe even as soon as tomorrow or next week or year-- but not later than that!!
Alarm presets are one of the coolest features of the RGB eParrot. And there are other features that we will explore later, like sensor calibration
Stay tuned as this leads us to
The Next Step in our RGB eParrot adventure.
