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Or... şişkebap!

Although it seems simple, trivial, banal... I don't remember when I had this much trouble writing code!
I'm building some HID server (custom order)... and everything that could go wrong; it went wrong!
First the MUX module didn't work for me, even though it's new out of the box!
Then i broke a couple of micro usb connectors on the "slave" modules... (very poor workmanship)...
A task that I planned to take two hours... took me 4-5 hours!
When a person watches a video; he would say: so what, very simple!
No it's not!
I just wanted to remind the forum that that villain Murphy is always present, everywhere and in every place and is always lurking around the corner!

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Server controls (via WiFi, BT or both): 8 HID ports and 8 IR ports.
The easiest way for me to follow the development of the code is the banal use of existing LEDs on HID units (Micro PRO - Leonardo).
"Banal"!? Oh no it's not!
In the case of !%$"#&!/!"# Leonardo it is not banal!
The LEDs are tied to the UART and that complicates things!
If I add to that a bad out of the box MUX that behaves as if it is correct... it is clear that there are gremlins around me, a full room!
Murphy directs them to torture and bully me!
Slave modules return acknowledge after handshake, which is also a communication check.
But also a reserve for two-way communication in the later development of the code.
Instead of a light show with LEDs; HID will transmit to 8 external devices various combinations of data.
At the same time I have 8 IR channels that will have different purposes.
I called them "IR" but it's a general purpose GPIO control.
That means a total of 16 channels of connection with the outside world.
Due to the specificity and format of the data to be sent; slave modules will be true HID devices in the full sense.
Interesting problem. Very clear and methodologically easy in the theoretical part.
But the real material world is always full of unexpected pitfalls!
Another proof that it's easier to dream and imagine of shoveling canals - than actually shoveling canals!
(I simply can't shake the metal detectorist out of me)
So... the only way to results is to keep shoveling in the real world!
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Hey, is forum dead? Is anyone alive!?
Or are you all busy buying gold feverishly because of the coming war!?