Logging your moves to the microSD card

How to log your moves to an SD Card?

1. Update your firmware to the latest RC008 version. 
2. Insert your microSD card that came with your spectrum ST4. Many cards will work that are formatted FAT32, but getting every card to work may not be possible.  Stick with the SD card that came with the spectrum.  We test these before they go out.
   *Another reminder, add a "tape tail" to any card you put into the spectrum to make fishing it out easier!
   
3. Insert the microSD Card.
4. Power on the spectrum.  
5. Set up a programmed move.
6. On the return to start, the spectrum is writing the full move to the SD card under the LOG folder.  
7. Naming convention is: "LOG/ST4Log_versionMajorversionMinor_fileIndex"

How do I read the file?

1. Pull out the card (powering down is better, but not required).  Important Note - Once the card is removed, you will have to power cycle the spectrum for it to log moves again!
2. Put it in a reader on your computer.
3. Open the SD card and the LOG folder.
4. Pick out the last file and open it.
5. In that file you will see a header with the filename and a row for each of the frames positions.  
   
   
   

What does it look like and how can I interpret the numbers?

Each row in the file is a value of the motor position at each frame.  There are 5 values in each row: frame number, Pan Value, Tilt Value, M3 Value, M4 Value.

For example, here are the first few rows of a log file (attached as an example):
LOG/ST4Log_738_285.txt

f0,18145,-5,-55,-3576
f1,18129,-21,-55,-3576
f2,18103,-48,-55,-3576
f3,18065,-85,-55,-3576
f4,18017,-133,-55,-3576
f5,17959,-192,-55,-3576
f6,17889,-261,-55,-3576
f7,17809,-341,-55,-3576
f8,17719,-432,-55,-3576
f9,17617,-533,-55,-3576

Each Axis has a physical constant associated with it: 

PAN 3275.420875 steps/per degree
TILT 8680.968858 steps/per degree
PERIN_DANA 11636.36364 steps/inch
PERIN_IFOOTAGAE_DD 44460.8547 steps/inch
PERDEG_FZ 1422.222222 steps/degree of FZ rotation

These values are how many clicks or ticks per value for that axis.  

From our example: 
f0 (frame 0) has a pan value of 18145
f1 (frame 1) has a pan value of 18129

We don't care about absolute values, we only care about changes.  Between frame 1 and frame 0 we have 18129-18145=-16

Since this is Pan we use 3275.420875 as our constant and divide the value.  This is -16/3275.420875 = -0.0048848684216803 degrees of pan change between frame 0 and frame 1.

This is lots of math, but check out the attached excel example if that's your thing.