New features and improvements for Blinkit: Blink length slider, and Blink on new posts from a specific user
Blinkit is a notification software that turns any USB sticks status L.E.D. into a notification light for Steem related actions.
New feature and improvements made to Blinkit:
New Features:
Added a Slider to the interface to set the Blink length.
In the previous version the length of each blink action could be set with a pull down, the menu only had 2 options, short, medium and long.
With the new slider a user can easily set the blink length to the desirable length.
The slider also makes Blinkit more flexible to use with different hardware. (USB 1.0, 2.0, 3.0)
The source files are updated
These files are added
Blink the L.E.D of a connected USB stick when a specified user posts a new comment or article on the Steem blockchain.
Now when the newly added Posts button is pressed Blinkit wil start posts.bat and look for new posts and comments made by a Steem user. When Blinkit detects a new post/comment it will turn on the LED of your USB stick.
The Posts script can be directly edited by the user by clicking the edit label underneath the button.
Blinkit is running and looking for new posts from me.
The Steem posts data comes from @moisesmcardona Web API:
https://api.steem.place/getPostCount/?a=techtek
The code added to Blinkit to implement this new feature:
Link to the posts.bat script
This feature for Blinkit was requested by @valchiz and @mmasim
Improved the notification script for upvotes, followers and posts.
In the previous version there was a moment in the scripts that could lead to missing a action, this happend because the script would re downloaded the data at the begin of each loop, and download it again for comparison, but it should better leave it untouched and only redownload it after a notification is done.
in this new version the previously downloaded data only gets downloaded again after the comparison of the data have resulted in a notification.
The below code is updated to improve the scripts accuracy and after testing it it works very well and it is now almost real time notifying you about new posts, followers, and seems to not miss a notification. The upvote notifications can be a bit slow.
The following files are updated with the improvement
VB.NET project source files are updated
Download the project files
Blinkit for Windows is Updated
Download the latest version of Blinkit.
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My previous post was about the idea of making a light defusing enclosure for USB sticks.
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Long time no see my friend. Please come to discord I want to discuss about something. Sorry I think it is @isacoin post.
He resteemed it ;p
Yes, I forget to check the author name. Just comment on most recent post. sorry about that.
Oh you got a powerful upvote from utopian-io. I glad to see that.
Way too fun and love your creativity!
Thank you for your comment and upvote, very much appreciated
Thank you for the contribution. It has been approved.
As always, there is a lot graphics for the eyes.
It would be better if you could push your updates as a pull request on your repo. (Utopian facilitates this approach with a dropdown menu) Failing that, you should at least list the commits in your posts.
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Blinked :)
How about now?
No Blink :(
That moment i was testing the comments made by a account, and was using Blinkit to watch on my own account to look for a comment i just made to test it.
Blinkit can not yet blink on new comments made to a user, but at this moment it can blink on new posts/comment made by a user and on new upvotes and followers for a user.
Excuse me for acting and I do not want to advertise, I want to know what do you think about this article? I think Steem will go down,to withdraw our money now?
Please go and spam somewhere else ? or make a relevant comment and maybe get a upvote ?
Hey @techtek I am @utopian-io. I have just upvoted you!
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