ICSC as repeater and Save Address in EEPROM

[tasosstr]

Hello dear,

I need you're light (if i am in wrong place i apologize).

If i use MAX485 i can have until 32 device's to talk each other,but with you're lovely library we can have much more devices ...
How can i use it as a repeater ( in case if i want to expand it in the middle of loop (with an arduino MEGA ) eg, in address 20 i want to create a new loop and send the address range 33 - 40 ...

And a second question please, how can i address each device and store it to EEPROM and when power up ? with the previous version i have done

LocalID = EEPROM.read(EEPROM_ID_Address);
ICSC.begin(LocalID, 19200, 2);

and was working ok, with new version i can't do this :-(

Thank you in Advance...

Best Regards,
Tasos

[tasosstr]

ok for the address read from the eeprom and change it in setup, i found the solution, for the relay not yet ...

for people has the same issue this is what i did in this beautiful library :-)

in file ICSC.h

public:
	ICSC(Stream *d, uint8_t station) : _dev(d), _station(station), _dePin(255) {}
    ICSC(Stream &d, uint8_t station) : _dev(&d), _station(station), _dePin(255) {}
    ICSC(Stream *d, uint8_t station, int depin) : _dev(d), _station(station), _dePin(depin) {}
    ICSC(Stream &d, uint8_t station, int depin) : _dev(&d), _station(station), _dePin(depin) {}
	
	
    ~ICSC();

    void begin();
	void setAddress(uint8_t address);  // <- Add this

and on file ICSC.cpp

add the follow
void ICSC::setAddress(uint8_t address) {
_station = address;
}

so in the example

ICSC icsc(Serial, 2 ,2); // last argument specifies DE pin on ChainDuino

void pressed(unsigned char src, char command, unsigned char len, char *data)
{
digitalWrite(13, HIGH);
}

void released(unsigned char src, char command, unsigned char len, char *data)
{
digitalWrite(13, LOW);
}

void setup()
{
Serial.begin(115200);
// so here can read the eeprom
// and on next line we can have the eeprom value ;-)
//e.g.
//LocalID = EEPROM.read(EEPROM_ID_Address);
// icsc.setAddress(LocalID);
icsc.setAddress(2); // <- When i change this it does the trick :-)
icsc.begin();
icsc.registerCommand('P', &pressed);
icsc.registerCommand('R', &released);
pinMode(13, OUTPUT);
digitalWrite(13, LOW);
}

void loop()
{
icsc.process();
}

have fun :-)

[tasosstr]

icsc.setAddress(2); // <- When i change this it does the trick :-)

this can also use it in void loop() in some case ;-)

[tasosstr]

I think the #define ICSC_SYS_RELAY 0x09 could be what i looking for repeat the message .. can someone please help me ? Thank you.