Milestone; first over the air acoustic comms successfull!

 

The banter channel is the only comms enabled and it managed discovery OTA !

In OctoMY™ we have a quite complex comms stack. Some might say it is "over-engineered". Today it did something that I have been dreaming of and working towards for a decade now; it managed to initiate pairing over the air using only sound.

It unfortunately only worked one way, some work still remains. But this is nonetheless a milestone for the project. No fiddly bluetooth pairing or wifi settings, just a squelch on the speaker and we can imediately connect in the middle of the woods!

Pretty error messsages

 I have developed a philosophy over the years that the developers and maintainers of software are some of the most important users. Ans as we all know, the user comes first, especially the important ones!

Pretty error messages make happy developers

One of the ways a software becomes more user friendly to developers is through good error messages. Here is a screenshot that I am very proud of. It illustrates how debugging databases COULD look like if developers were in the front row, and thankfully for me this is how I debug my database queries going forward: