Author: Kenny Luong
Start Date: 2016-07-03

• Good - firmware builds for all three weatherbox versions and has a user manual

• Remove UART data packet
• Clean up data format
• Test mode - assert a pin to low/high and the mcu will only run through a test routine. Would be useful for testing purposes
• Sleep mode integration
• Better interface for custom functions
• Integration of avr emulator in workflow for testing
• Better non-microcontroller framework to enable offline testing
• Switch toolchains to either a makefile based toolchain or platformio
• Rename repository (currently weatherbox-2)
• Consider pulling some functions out into a library
• Clean up repository (moving average folder and examples should be somewhere else)
• Consider other practices for separating behavior between different versions - maybe surround all of those cases with if statements instead of ifdef, or do both
• Better logging - perhaps we can create a logging module.
• Experiment with timer based logic
• Support for creating dummy data - option to build this out as well
• Use build flags with the toolchain instead of defining things on the top
• Reduce global state
• Remove the LPF module for now - we don't need it
• Overall, reduce system complexity
• Add support for running custom commands (and make sure that those commands aren't too heavy). MCU when asserted on another pin should also automatically go into command mode
• Add better startup check sequence
• debugWire support

Goals suggested by previous firmware team:

• GitHub Issues
  1. Heatbeat packet
  2. Time-based sampling
  3. Command parsing & Execution
• Unit Testing
  1. Transmit Module
  2. Utilities Module
  3. Full Integration
• Error Code Library
  1. Appropriate error codes for corresponding unit tests
• Schema Changes
  1. Change sensor data variable types to signed ints
  2. Update decryption script
• Compilation
  1. Identify and resolve the warnings given during compilation

Contributing authors:

Created by kluong on 2016/07/03 21:17.