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Amigakit Hardware => A600GS & A1200NG => Topic started by: spanner on July 26, 2024, 01:10:19 PM
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I was wondering if it would be possible to add 2 LEDs at the front of the A600 GS where its DB9 ports are, top left corner, one red for Power and one green or yellow for Floppy Disk/Hard Disk activity, I was thinking maybe add them to the GPIO pins, red could be connected to a power GPIO pin and for green/yellow you could tell the Amiberry emulator to use the GPIO Pins for Green/Yellow LED Disk activity..?
We could do it as a hardware mod so the user adds it there self.
You could even tell the GPIO pin when the LED is on or off in Linux to make it look like its loading something so simulating it as the A600 GS is loading up... :)
echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/gpio_sw.0/gpio_sw/PL7/data - Green LED ON
sleep 3
echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/gpio_sw.0/gpio_sw/PL7/data - Green LED OFF
You could put the code in Amiberry to simulate the Disk activity and connect it to the Green LED code in Amiberry, well something like that.
I know it can be done because THEA500 Mini can do it, that code above I use in PCUAE as it loading, it turn the Disk LED on and off so it simulating its loading... :) anyway just a idea... :)
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I was wondering if it would be possible to add 2 LEDs at the front of the A600 GS, top left corner, one red for Power and one green for Floppy Disk or Hard Disk, I was thinking maybe add them to the GPIO pins when tell the emulator to use the GPIO Pins for Green Disk..?~
We could do it as a hardware mod so the user does it there self.
This had already been thought about.
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OK... :)
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I was wondering if it would be possible to add 2 LEDs at the front of the A600 GS where its DB9 ports are, top left corner, one red for Power and one green or yellow for Floppy Disk/Hard Disk activity
I agree this would be extremely helpful. Even just a power LED would help a lot, but I love the idea of a drive activity light as well. I find myself peeking through the checkmark to see if there is any glow in there indicating power on/off. I connected an RGB keyboard to it which helps, but there is a delay to the lights coming on after power up so it is only helpful ones the A600GS is up and running
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Is that a GPIO breakout on the lower (larger) board? If so, maybe it could be something plugged into that with the LED(s) near the surface of the Checkmark vent. I know you said it had been thought about, but could it be thought about again? As an optional extra or user fitted option? A kit? A DIY doodad? It would only need to be a connector, resistor and LED at most.
Or are there other things being considered for that port?
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The header the audio jack is attached to seems to be a passthru of the OrangePi header, looking up that will give you a pinout and just connect to the 5v and gnd to feed a power LED...