Hello together,
I am wondering if there is somewhere any user manual of how to PLAY with the prints. So a description, which stick should do which action.
For example the CyberTruck. I can see in the assembly this overview:
I’m not super familiar with this model but I can provide some information on troubleshooting and investigating what the lights should do based on the configuration.
In the CyberBrick app, the LEDs are configured into Effects which can be triggered by Events.
The Events are configured within the remote - in the case of the truck I can see that some LED events are triggered based on moving the X axis of the right joystick. Note the Value selection for each event.
Now, within the Receiver configuration, you can select the LED component and see a list of effects - these should have the same name as the Values that were selected in the controller configuration.
Of course, there could be a hardware problem causing your issue but hopefully this helps to identify what lights should be activated based on which controller actions.
Based on the screenshot of the JSON file provided by Makim and this operation button diagram, if everything is correct, a light should come on when the truck turns and the button on the remote control is pressed.
Thanks for your help!
I changed all components one by one and finally found the hardware error: The wire between shield and light-hub is the “bad guy”. Was a little bit tricky to find, who guess the wire is damaged.
Do you know where I can request for a replacement? @CyberBrick
A couple of things that I learned while building the cyberbrick truck and controller that weren’t clear in the documentation were the following:
Use the included triple A battery packs for the controllers ONLY, do not put them into the vehicles! If you’re like me and tried to connect the AAA batt pack to a receiver, the board will light up, but none of the components will work.
Led’s plugged into the LED Hub XA006 must be wired in order OUT1 to OUT4, if you skip one of the OUT ports, all ports after that one will not work.
The Servo’s PG001 & PG002 wire order, brown/red/yellow, matters when plugged into the Receiver Shield XA004. If your servo isn’t working, you might need to flip this connection around.
While it is possible to test functionality from the app to a receiver without having a physical transmitter paired, I would recommend you build the physical controller first. For example, I experienced a bug where trying to ‘test’ led effects from the app would not work at all, but the effect logic worked fine when paired to physical controller.
While using the PC/Mac cyberbrick app, when in doubt ‘Send Config’ to send any changes you’ve made to the transmitter and receiver logic
Is it true that ‘none’ of the lights work? I would expect only lights ‘downstream’ from the missing light to not work (ie, with lights 1,2,and 4 plugged in, 1 & 2 would work, but 4 wouldn’t). This is a trait of these types of LEDS, the signals are daisy chained.
Is it possible to keep the headlights white and make the taillights red? I would also like to set the opposing lights to not turn off while turning the vehicle. I tried in the configuration section to edit the lights configuration, taking out lights 3 and 4, and then add a second “Regular” line and set lights 3 and 4 to red. Sent the configuration, but the tail lights just didnt lite up at all.
<thanks for any help.
