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| Andy (...) That's a very good point that I hadn't considered. But it's easily solved. The whole PC knows id 23948756 as "Motor1". But within a particular program, you're allowed (but not forced) to use aliases. So within your program you say for (...) (22 years ago, 5-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Yes - exactly. With this approach it's inevitable that you'll need either: 1) Some mapping between a horribly unfriendly unique ID and a friendly name. ...or... 2) A way of storing a friendly name inside the device itself (eg by connecting the (...) (22 years ago, 5-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I think it'll be easier to edit the source code where the mapping is done and modify it to MY_FRIENDLY_DEVICE_NAMES So, the pBrick would deal with Device_ID's, my PC would deal with Friendly_Device_Names (through a file with current Device_ID = (...) (22 years ago, 5-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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