What exactly is "Faux-NY" and "Transmit Power"?

[daniel-ch73]

"Transmit Power" I can guess that "the higher the power, the longer distance is possible", but guessing is never a good idea. Do we know the range of min/max power?

"Faux-NY" I have no idea what that is.

Did I miss any description of these two menu-items? Sorry if I missed any help-files or such, I'm not very used to github.

[gkoh]

@daniel-ch73 Thank you for the questions, I'm so deep in the code that I fail document things that are obvious to me.

"Transmit Power" I can guess that "the higher the power, the longer distance is possible", but guessing is never a good idea. Do we know the range of min/max power?

Your guess is correct. Higher == further.
There are 3 settings, let's call them 0, 1, 2 and they are very closely tied to the ESP32 bluetooth API.
The values are mapped like this:

• 0 == ESP_PWR_LVL_P3 == +3 dBm
• 1 == ESP_PWR_LVL_P6 == +6 dBm
• 2 == ESP_PWR_LVL_P9 == +9 dBm

The actual range achieved seems to depend on a whole bunch of factors including the build of the device itself.
+3 is the default, from my testing it is about the standard 10 metre range, sometimes less.
I can usually get beyond 10-15 metres with +9 on my M5 devices.
20 metres seems to be my limit, the connection becomes very unreliable.

The ESP32 API allows us to go negative as well, down to -12 dBm, but I have not exposed it.
I recall trying this once during very early development, at -12 dBm it can barely reach 30cm.

"Faux-NY" I have no idea what that is.

Ha, I did not document this at all, apologies.

"FauxNY" is a pun on "Sony", where "faux" is fake.
By enabling FauxNY, the following will happen:

• a new FauxNY device will always appear in a scan
• a FauxNY device can always be connected
  • a connected FauxNY device can always be operated
    • it will just log messages to debug console

FauxNY was created so I could:

• test and develop the UI for:
  • scan handling
  • connection handling
  • without constantly fiddling with a real camera
• test multiple connections without actual multiple cameras
  • this is how I know the control logic can handle at least 9 connections in Multi-Connect
  • ... because I can't afford 9 Fujifilm cameras 🙂

Did I miss any description of these two menu-items? Sorry if I missed any help-files or such, I'm not very used to github.

You definitely did not.
Assuming any of the above makes sense I will convert them to proper documentation.
The front page README is starting to get quite long, so I may take this opportunity to break it up and perhaps move some things to the wiki and link them in.

[daniel-ch73]

I see. Thanks for clarification :-)