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Fix IMU sensor refresh rate selection #3642

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  • tested good with acc/gyro. could not test mag.
    [edit: setting acc or gyro, both change to new value]

@haslinghuis haslinghuis changed the title Fix sensor refresh rate selection Fix IMU sensor refresh rate selection Nov 24, 2023
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Thanks @haslinghuis for looking into this.

When I test this PR at the current point, changing either gyro or accelerometer will change the other one; they cannot be set to different 'speeds', they are always the same. The displayed 'speed' of one will change when the speed of the other is changed.

Mag appears to be locked to the speed of Gyro or Acc. Adjusting it's speed has no effect, it does nothing. The speed indicated for Mag does not get updated to the speed of Gyro or Acc, even though the gyro/acc speed is what actually is applied.

In contrast, changing either gyro or accelerometer has no effect on Debug or Altitude. Debug and Altitude appear to be entirely independent, they can be set to their own speed.

I am thinking about what the intended behaviour should be?

Is it intended that each trace will be drawn at whatever 'speed' the user selects, ie, that for each trace, it's 'speed' can be set completely independently of the others? In which case, we have separate speed controls for each trace.

Or, alternatively, should each trace be 'locked' so that the speed setting is always the same for all traces - in which case we only need a master speed setting, we don't need individual speed settings.

If we want to have a combination of both behaviours, then we need the ability to 'lock' some traces to the others, and 'unlock' others.

One way could be to have a 'lock'/'unlock' icon next to the speed value. This would be 'locked' by default. Changing the speed of any one of the 'locked' traces would then change all the other 'locked' traces to the new speed. If the user opens the 'lock', however, then that trace becomes 'independent', and can be set to whatever the user wants, and won't be affected by the other ones.

An alternative could be to have a 'master' speed setting at the top. If the master speed is changed, then the speed of all traces is updated to that speed. However, if the speed setting of an individual trace is changed, the result affects only that single trace, not any of the others.

In a practical sense, I typically like all the traces to align and be at the same speed.

So if we had a 'master' speed control, it should reset the screen and reset/sync all vertical grid lines and the 'time' numbers that appear under the traces as well. Currently they get out of sync easily.

Maybe the idea of a 'master speed control' would simplify things a bit?

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You need to know that underlying gyro, accel and mag data is filled up using same MSP_RAW_IMU call. That's why a different refresh rate does not make sense here.

// data pulling timers
if (checkboxes[0] || checkboxes[1] || checkboxes[2]) {
GUI.interval_add('IMU_pull', function imu_data_pull() {
MSP.send_message(MSPCodes.MSP_RAW_IMU, false, false, update_imu_graphs);
}, fastest, true);
}

Further improvement could be indeed but are out of the scope of this PR:

  • refresh button to sync graphs
  • master speed control could be used a to reset all rates to the same value - but which value.
  • do not see the need for independent locks

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mituritsyn commented Nov 25, 2023

@haslinghuis thanks for fast respond.
Magnetometer refresh rate doesn't work
very minor: if you have only one graph (Gyro/Accel/Mag) running at max refresh rate and then add another one - the speed slows down at the same refresh rate.

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@mituritsyn - should be fixed now.

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Do you want to test this code? Here you have an automated build:
Betaflight-Configurator-Android
Betaflight-Configurator-Linux
Betaflight-Configurator-macOS
Betaflight-Configurator-Windows
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My point is that the current user interface suggests that the 'speed' of each trace is independent, because each trace has it's own pop-up. Given that user interface, we should provide each trace with an independent 'speed' from its pop-up.
The user doesn't care about the technicalities of how the data is obtained, they care only about seeing the data at a particular rate that is best for their purpose.
If acc, gyro and mag are all pulled from IMU at the same rate, then whatever is the fastest user-configured rate of those three clearly has to be the rate at which the data for all three are retrieved.
However, the display 'speed' for each trace can still be independent; if say gyro data is at 100Hz, but the user only wants to show Mag at 10hz, then we should be able to do that.
The point I was making about having a 'master' speed control is simply that we can put a drop-down at the top of the sensors panel which can be used to set all values to the same 'speed'. This allows a means for the user to change all channels to the same speed very easily, which is usually what most of us want to do. That's easier than having to change multiple channels one by one.

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Latest version works 'as intended', in that Acc, Gyro and Mag all share common speed, and cannot be set independently.

I'm a bit confused about why we want different graph speeds for the other channels, but they can be set independently.

Can I ask what the numbers under the vertical grid lines represent? Are they sample counts, or time intervals?

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The number is generated using tick interval used in a transition using D3 library.

helpers.xAxis = d3.axisBottom()
.scale(helpers.widthScale)
.ticks(5)
.tickFormat(function (d) {return d;});

@haslinghuis haslinghuis merged commit e18e363 into betaflight:master Dec 1, 2023
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@haslinghuis haslinghuis deleted the fix-sensor-refresh-rate branch December 26, 2023 01:40
chmelevskij pushed a commit to chmelevskij/betaflight-configurator that referenced this pull request Apr 27, 2024
* Fix sensor refresh rate selection

* Fix html

* Refactor
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