VellemanOutputPort.h

/*
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 *
 * VellemanOutputPort.h
 * The output port for a Velleman 8062 device.
 * Copyright (C) 2010 Simon Newton
 *
 * Because this interface is so slow we run the output in a separate thread. It
 * takes around 8ms to respond to an urb and in the worst case we send 74 urbs
 * per universe.
 *
 * It would be interesting to see if you can pipeline the urbs to improve the
 * performance.
 */

#ifndef PLUGINS_USBDMX_VELLEMANOUTPUTPORT_H_
#define PLUGINS_USBDMX_VELLEMANOUTPUTPORT_H_

#include <libusb.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <string>
#include "ola/DmxBuffer.h"
#include "ola/thread/Thread.h"
#include "olad/Port.h"

namespace ola {
namespace plugin {
namespace usbdmx {

class VellemanDevice;

class VellemanOutputPort: public BasicOutputPort, ola::thread::Thread {
 public:
  VellemanOutputPort(VellemanDevice *parent,
                     unsigned int id,
                     libusb_device *usb_device);
  ~VellemanOutputPort();

  bool Start();
  void *Run();

  bool WriteDMX(const DmxBuffer &buffer, uint8_t priority);
  std::string Description() const;

 private:
  static const unsigned char ENDPOINT = 0x01;
  // 25ms seems to be about the shortest we can go
  static const unsigned int URB_TIMEOUT_MS = 25;
  static const int CONFIGURATION = 1;
  static const int INTERFACE = 0;
  static const unsigned int UPGRADED_CHUNK_SIZE = 64;

  bool m_term;
  unsigned int m_chunk_size;
  libusb_device *m_usb_device;
  libusb_device_handle *m_usb_handle;
  DmxBuffer m_buffer;
  ola::thread::Mutex m_data_mutex;
  ola::thread::Mutex m_term_mutex;

  bool SendDMX(const DmxBuffer &buffer_old);
  bool SendDataChunk(uint8_t *usb_data);
};
}  // namespace usbdmx
}  // namespace plugin
}  // namespace ola
#endif  // PLUGINS_USBDMX_VELLEMANOUTPUTPORT_H_