HIN1000_0 Capacitive Touch - enabling all buttons

[GIS_Is_Me]

Complete Phidget N00b here.
My goal is to get the HIN1000_0 responding to touches on any of it's seven touchpads.

To that end, I've downloaded, walked through and ran the example code

CapacitiveTouch.py.

Thing is, I can't figure out how to get touchValue to correspond to the channel of the touchpad that was touched. This defaults to 0 or can be set via setChannel().

[mparadis]

Each CapacitiveTouch object can only be assigned to one button on the HIN1000. You'll need to make multiple objects to use multiple buttons at the same time:

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ch0 = CapacitiveTouch()
ch1 = CapacitiveTouch()

def TouchHandler(e, touchValue):
    print("Channel %d Touch Value: %f" % (e.getChannel(),touchValue))

ch0.setOnTouchHandler(TouchHandler)
ch1.setOnTouchHandler(TouchHandler)

ch0.setChannel(0)
ch1.setChannel(1)

ch0.openWaitForAttachment(5000)
ch1.openWaitForAttachment(5000)

print("Gathering data for 10 seconds...")
time.sleep(10)

ch0.close()
ch1.close()

If you plan on using all 7 channels, it would be cleaner to create an array of CapacitiveTouch objects and use loops to run through all of these steps.

[GIS_Is_Me]

Thanks for this. That got me on my way. Next up, trying to wire this up with wxPython.