RTC serious bug - easy fix for development team

[gektron]

I've just purchased a Tab5 for our company evaluation for use as a time clock. We want to deploy many of these across multiple sites. So far the development using UIFlow 2.3.3 is working out okay. However I have just come across a serious bug with the hardware RTC in UIFlow as follows:

When you add a "Set UTC time" block to the program, it generates the following python code:

rtc.init((year, month, day, 0, hours, minutes, seconds, sub seconds))

It should be calling rtc.datetime() with these parameters, rtc.init expects slightly different parameters (see https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/library/machine.RTC.html). Could you fix this bug please and get the block to call the rtc.datetime() function as it is causing me a major road block. As I said seems like a simple fix.

Additionally do you have the Tab5 camera integration with UIFlow blocks on the roadmap in the near future? Thanks.

[felmue]

Hello @gektron

until this gets fixed you could try to use an Execute mpy code block instead with the correct micropython code in it. This block is located under System.

Thanks
Felix

[gektron]

@felmue @m5stack thanks for the quick reply Felix. As I understand this feature no longer exists in UIFlow, or at least I can’t find or enable it. Instead you have to define custom block models which seems like a very clunky method with limited scope. Are the execute mpy code blocks still available somehow?

[kuriko]

@gektron
I have reported this problem to the R&D team!
The Tab5 camera adaptation is currently pending until Espressif adds MIPI driver support for the ESP32-P4.

[gektron]

@kuriko Thank you for the update. I look forward to the bug fix and the forth coming camera implementation (hopefully Espressif will add MIPI support soon).

[felmue]

Hello @gektron

I agree, the Execute mpy code block is a bit hidden in UIFlow2. But as I said before you can find it in System:

Thanks
Felix

[gektron]

@felmue Doh! I was looking under system at the menu options. I didn't think to click on system for the block menu. Thanks for the guidance.