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I am writing a general interface for Phidgets22 to Helios 1.6 (virtual cockpit software.) So I am trying to support device classes in general without knowing ahead of time what devices the user may have.

Things are going well, but I ran into a problem: An InterfaceKit 8/8/8 reports that it has DigitalOutput. It also return MinDutyCycle = 0 and MaxDutyCycle = 1. However, it doesn't actually support DutyCycle I think, as it throws an exception if I set it to 0.1.

How am I supposed to know from the API that this is not supported? Is it a bug that MaxDutyCycle is set to 1 for devices that actually should just use "State" instead? I realize it supports the values 0 and 1, but it doesn't support any value in between

You can use the ChannelSubclass Property. This will be None for regular digital outputs, and DigitalOutputDutyCycle for outputs supporting Duty Cycle.

-Patrick

Thanks so much. I had actually structured my code to do something like that because your API is always logical. But then I screwed up my test case and thought it was always "None."

Thanks!

Can someone help me? I have a physical Cockpit with 5 Phidget card, I really want my 6 phidget card to talk to the SW Helios 1.6Virtual Cockpit. For the moment my Helios 1.6 (Nor 1.4) can`t add my Phidget as Interface: I think this was one of "derammo" initial problem as well. I Hope you have solved this ?

I have stopped development on the Phidget support for 1.6 due to me exiting the project.

I already replied to you on github, so I won't duplicate information here.