solving_station_info

[jposada202020]

This resolves #9 .

According to the data sheet page 28, this has to be setup only at powerup, however for testing purposes I change the station every three seconds, behavior in the video is normal as mentioned in the datasheet, the databuffer has a length of 4 characters, so it will update half buffer at a time

Results

Hardware

Adafruit CircuitPython 6.2.0 on 2021-04-05; Adafruit Feather RP2040 with rp2040

with a Adafruit SI4713

TEST CODE

import board
import digitalio
import adafruit_si4713
import time
from random import choice

si_reset = digitalio.DigitalInOut(board.D5)
si4713 = adafruit_si4713.SI4713(board.I2C(), reset=si_reset, timeout_s=0.5)
si4713.tx_frequency_khz = 87600
si4713.tx_power = 115

stations = [b'-', b'IO', b'Neo', b'Hans', b"Cappy", b'Neokey', b'Minerva', b'Blinka', b'Adafruit']

while True:
    si4713.configure_rds(0xADAF, station=choice(stations), rds_buffer=b'Electronic Hits')
    time.sleep(2)

[jposada202020]

@caternuson hacky but works, for a almost two years issue, I say lets not get into the rabbit hole. there are scary things in the library LOL

[caternuson]

What if station name is greater than 8 characters?

[jposada202020]

Well at least here, that does not apply.I verify all the radio stations in FM and they do not have a name longer than 8. I do not know where you are. If you use a station longer it will cut to 8 characters. If any, we identify where the problem is :).
I could transfer what I find out to the issue and close this PR, what do you think?

[caternuson]

Let's just merge this. This stuff isn't super well documented in the datasheets unfortunately. This seems to at least make it work better. If it still is some kind of issue, can open a new one later.

[jposada202020]

Thanks :)