How do we orient the Sphero? about artoo-sphero

[deadprogram]

As I recall from having used it, that option requires you look and use a widget on the iphone to cause the Sphero to turn till the tail light is pointed towards you.

[zachfeldman]

Yeah, that's definitely how you do it on the iPhone - the only problem is that you'd have to:

1. Pair with your iphone
2. Orient the sphero
3. unpair with your iphone
4. pair with your laptop/let Artoo do so
5. run program

Rather than, perhaps:

1. Run program with command that shows where sphero is oriented, turn sphero to orient, you have x seconds to orient
2. run rest of program

Do you think the second one is possible in your research thus far? Happy to look into it myself too! Thanks @deadprogram .

[deadprogram]

We have some code to help orient Sphero in Cylon.js located here: https://github.com/hybridgroup/cylon-sphero/blob/master/lib/driver.js#L86-L101

Someone just needs to port this to artoo-sphero... ;)

[solojavier]

We already have it in dev branch: https://github.com/hybridgroup/artoo-sphero/blob/dev/lib/artoo/drivers/sphero.rb#L129 @deadprogram

[deadprogram]

Perfect!

[solojavier]

So @zachfeldman you could try that command...

[zachfeldman]

Thanks @solojavier and @deadprogram ! I checked out the dev branch and just tried it out. I get:

, [2014-08-14T17:20:02.979809 #16177] INFO -- : Starting driver 'Artoo::Drivers::Sphero'... E, [2014-08-14T17:20:02.980884 #16177] ERROR -- : undefined methodstart_calibration' for #<Device @id=2169422560, @name='name', @driver='Artoo::Drivers::Sphero'>
E, [2014-08-14T17:20:02.980998 #16177] ERROR -- : ["/Users/zachfeldman/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/gems/celluloid-0.16.0.pre3/lib/celluloid/calls.rb:30:in check'", "/Users/zachfeldman/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/gems/celluloid-0.16.0.pre3/lib/celluloid/calls.rb:24:in dispatch'", "/Users/zachfeldman/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/gems/celluloid-0.16.0.pre3/lib/celluloid/calls.rb:63:in dispatch'", "/Users/zachfeldman/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/gems/celluloid-0.16.0.pre3/lib/celluloid/cell.rb:60:in block in invoke'", "/Users/zachfeldman/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/gems/celluloid-0.16.0.pre3/lib/celluloid/cell.rb:71:in block in task'", "/Users/zachfeldman/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/gems/celluloid-0.16.0.pre3/lib/celluloid/actor.rb:357:in block in task'", "/Users/zachfeldman/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/gems/celluloid-0.16.0.pre3/lib/celluloid/tasks.rb:57:in block in initialize'", "/Users/zachfeldman/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/gems/celluloid-0.16.0.pre3/lib/celluloid/tasks/task_fiber.rb:15:in block in create'", "(celluloid):0:in remote procedure call'", "/Users/zachfeldman/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/gems/celluloid-0.16.0.pre3/lib/celluloid/calls.rb:92:in value'", "/Users/zachfeldman/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/gems/celluloid-0.16.0.pre3/lib/celluloid/proxies/sync_proxy.rb:33:in method_missing'", "sphero.rb:12:in block in

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[solojavier]

We have just pushed version 1.5.0 of artoo-sphero gem which includes that capability... could you try updating and trying again?