This is the description of the Perl API bindings for the Piezo Speaker Bricklet. General information and technical specifications for the Piezo Speaker Bricklet are summarized in its hardware description.
An installation guide for the Perl API bindings is part of their general description.
The example code below is Public Domain (CC0 1.0).
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 | #!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Tinkerforge::IPConnection;
use Tinkerforge::BrickletPiezoSpeaker;
use constant HOST => 'localhost';
use constant PORT => 4223;
use constant UID => 'XYZ'; # Change XYZ to the UID of your Piezo Speaker Bricklet
my $ipcon = Tinkerforge::IPConnection->new(); # Create IP connection
my $ps = Tinkerforge::BrickletPiezoSpeaker->new(&UID, $ipcon); # Create device object
$ipcon->connect(&HOST, &PORT); # Connect to brickd
# Don't use device before ipcon is connected
# Make 2 second beep with a frequency of 1kHz
$ps->beep(2000, 1000);
print "Press key to exit\n";
<STDIN>;
$ipcon->disconnect();
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 | #!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Tinkerforge::IPConnection;
use Tinkerforge::BrickletPiezoSpeaker;
use constant HOST => 'localhost';
use constant PORT => 4223;
use constant UID => 'XYZ'; # Change XYZ to the UID of your Piezo Speaker Bricklet
my $ipcon = Tinkerforge::IPConnection->new(); # Create IP connection
my $ps = Tinkerforge::BrickletPiezoSpeaker->new(&UID, $ipcon); # Create device object
$ipcon->connect(&HOST, &PORT); # Connect to brickd
# Don't use device before ipcon is connected
# Morse SOS with a frequency of 2kHz
$ps->morse_code("... --- ...", 2000);
print "Press key to exit\n";
<STDIN>;
$ipcon->disconnect();
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Generally, every subroutine of the Perl bindings can report an error as
Tinkerforge::Error
object via croak()
. The object has a
get_code()
and a get_message()
subroutine. There are different
error code:
All functions listed below are thread-safe.
BrickletPiezoSpeaker
->
new
($uid, $ipcon)¶Parameters: |
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Returns: |
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Creates an object with the unique device ID $uid
:
$piezo_speaker = BrickletPiezoSpeaker->new("YOUR_DEVICE_UID", $ipcon);
This object can then be used after the IP Connection is connected.
BrickletPiezoSpeaker
->
beep
($duration, $frequency)¶Parameters: |
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Returns: |
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Beeps with the given frequency for the given duration.
Changed in version 2.0.2 (Plugin): A duration of 0 stops the current beep if any, the frequency parameter is ignored. A duration of 4294967295 results in an infinite beep.
The Piezo Speaker Bricklet can only approximate the frequency, it will play
the best possible match by applying the calibration (see calibrate()
).
The following constants are available for this function:
For $duration:
BrickletPiezoSpeaker
->
morse_code
($morse, $frequency)¶Parameters: |
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Returns: |
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Sets morse code that will be played by the piezo buzzer. The morse code is given as a string consisting of "." (dot), "-" (minus) and " " (space) for dits, dahs and pauses. Every other character is ignored.
For example: If you set the string "...---...", the piezo buzzer will beep nine times with the durations "short short short long long long short short short".
BrickletPiezoSpeaker
->
calibrate
()¶Returns: |
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The Piezo Speaker Bricklet can play 512 different tones. This function plays each tone and measures the exact frequency back. The result is a mapping between setting value and frequency. This mapping is stored in the EEPROM and loaded on startup.
The Bricklet should come calibrated, you only need to call this function (once) every time you reflash the Bricklet plugin.
Returns true after the calibration finishes.
BrickletPiezoSpeaker
->
get_identity
()¶Return Array: |
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Returns the UID, the UID where the Bricklet is connected to, the position, the hardware and firmware version as well as the device identifier.
The position can be 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g' or 'h' (Bricklet Port). A Bricklet connected to an Isolator Bricklet is always at position 'z'.
The device identifier numbers can be found here. There is also a constant for the device identifier of this Bricklet.
Callbacks can be registered to receive
time critical or recurring data from the device. The registration is done
with the register_callback()
function of
the device object. The first parameter is the callback ID and the second
parameter the callback function name:
sub my_callback
{
print "@_[0]";
}
$piezo_speaker->register_callback(BrickletPiezoSpeaker->CALLBACK_EXAMPLE, 'my_callback')
The callback function will be called from an internal thread of the
IP Connection. In contrast to many other programming languages, variables are
not automatically shared between threads in Perl. If you want to share a global
variable between a callback function and the rest for your program it has to be
marked as :shared
. See the documentation of the threads::shared Perl module for more details.
The available constants with inherent number and type of parameters are described below.
Note
Using callbacks for recurring events is always preferred compared to using getters. It will use less USB bandwidth and the latency will be a lot better, since there is no round trip time.
BrickletPiezoSpeaker
->
CALLBACK_BEEP_FINISHED
¶Callback Parameters: |
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This callback is triggered if a beep set by beep()
is finished
BrickletPiezoSpeaker
->
CALLBACK_MORSE_CODE_FINISHED
¶Callback Parameters: |
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This callback is triggered if the playback of the morse code set by
morse_code()
is finished.
Virtual functions don't communicate with the device itself, but operate only on the API bindings device object. They can be called without the corresponding IP Connection object being connected.
BrickletPiezoSpeaker
->
get_api_version
()¶Return Array: |
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Returns the version of the API definition implemented by this API bindings. This is neither the release version of this API bindings nor does it tell you anything about the represented Brick or Bricklet.
BrickletPiezoSpeaker
->
get_response_expected
($function_id)¶Parameters: |
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Returns: |
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Returns the response expected flag for the function specified by the function ID parameter. It is true if the function is expected to send a response, false otherwise.
For getter functions this is enabled by default and cannot be disabled,
because those functions will always send a response. For callback configuration
functions it is enabled by default too, but can be disabled by
set_response_expected()
. For setter functions it is disabled by default
and can be enabled.
Enabling the response expected flag for a setter function allows to detect timeouts and other error conditions calls of this setter as well. The device will then send a response for this purpose. If this flag is disabled for a setter function then no response is sent and errors are silently ignored, because they cannot be detected.
The following constants are available for this function:
For $function_id:
BrickletPiezoSpeaker
->
set_response_expected
($function_id, $response_expected)¶Parameters: |
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Returns: |
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Changes the response expected flag of the function specified by the function ID parameter. This flag can only be changed for setter (default value: false) and callback configuration functions (default value: true). For getter functions it is always enabled.
Enabling the response expected flag for a setter function allows to detect timeouts and other error conditions calls of this setter as well. The device will then send a response for this purpose. If this flag is disabled for a setter function then no response is sent and errors are silently ignored, because they cannot be detected.
The following constants are available for this function:
For $function_id:
BrickletPiezoSpeaker
->
set_response_expected_all
($response_expected)¶Parameters: |
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Returns: |
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Changes the response expected flag for all setter and callback configuration functions of this device at once.
BrickletPiezoSpeaker
->
DEVICE_IDENTIFIER
¶This constant is used to identify a Piezo Speaker Bricklet.
The get_identity()
function and the
IPConnection->CALLBACK_ENUMERATE
callback of the IP Connection have a device_identifier
parameter to specify
the Brick's or Bricklet's type.
BrickletPiezoSpeaker
->
DEVICE_DISPLAY_NAME
¶This constant represents the human readable name of a Piezo Speaker Bricklet.