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renatoa wrote:

Is your pot linear ?
If using a logarithmic pot, could exhibit weird behavior, like you describe.
How to check this:
- look on the pot engraving, for A(lin) or B(log) letter placed somewhere, like the A in the attached image
- if no A or B, measure the resistance when cursor is in the middle, if you read aprox equal values, you are good, is linear, if heavily unbalanced, about 1/4 ratio, then it is log.

Any custom values for MIN/MAX_OT1 ?
???

renatoa wrote:

Well, this is what I wrote as lacking support from TC4... as I type

Public libraries are available, we can discuss about a custom version to replace analog pots with this encoder, if interested.

#define SW 5 //define pins and variables
#define CLK 6
#define DT 7
int counter = 0;
int CLKState;
int CLKLastState;
void setup() {
pinMode (CLK,INPUT);
pinMode (DT,INPUT);
pinMode (SW,INPUT_PULLUP);

Serial.begin (9600);
// Reads the initial state of the CLK
CLKLastState = digitalRead(CLK);
}
void loop() {
CLKState = digitalRead(CLK); // Reads the "current" state of the CLK
// If the previous and the current state of the CLK are different, that means a Pulse has occured
if (CLKState != CLKLastState){
// If the DT state is different to the CLK state, that means the encoder is rotating clockwise
if (digitalRead(DT) != CLKState) {
counter ++;
} else {
counter --;
}
Serial.print("Position: "); //one cycle equals to 30 increment
Serial.print(counter*(360/30)); //convert the incremental value into degree
Serial.println(" deg");
}
CLKLastState = CLKState; // Updates the previous state of the CLK with the current state
if(digitalRead(SW) == LOW) //reset to 0 deg when the encoder is pressed
counter = 0;

}

Do I copy and paste the code into a new text file, give it a name and then include it in the main sketch?

renatoa wrote:

Sent the code yesterday, check your inbox here.

Definitely not that simple...
For example an Arduino program can't have multiple setup() and loop() functions.
The sample code sent by seller have to be merged with existing code of other project.

TC4+ communicate via USB, i.e. serial line, having dedicated pins, not interfering with those used by encoder.
Seems like 5-6-7 from the sample are unused in TC4.

renatoa wrote:

Next life probably will be a cat