Sending Focus Data from GUI to Arduino for new Focus Widget

DashBarkHuss

I'm looking at this tutorial:
Send Focus Data from GUI to Arduino

It says to download an old version of the GUI (v4.2.0) because the Focus widget was removed in v5.0.0.

However, the Focus Widget was added back in v.5.0.5

But the new Focus Widget never reads "focused!" as the tutorial says it should. It only says "not relaxing". So can't recreate the tutorial. The light is not blinking.

Is there an updated version of this tutorial for v5.0.0?

This is what my widget looks like now

This is what the old widget looked like in the Send Focus Data from GUI to Arduino tutorial

wjcroft

Dash, hi.

My understanding is that the new 'Focus' widget changed the metric being reported from 'focus', to what Brainflow classifies as either 'relaxation' or 'concentration'. Your image above shows that you have selected the 'relaxation' metric on the pull down menu. Just change that to 'concentration' to be more like the previous focus widget.

https://docs.openbci.com/Software/OpenBCISoftware/GUIWidgets/#focus-widget

Mentioning Richard @retiutut if he wants to add anything. I believe the Arduino tutorial doc update is in progress,

https://github.com/OpenBCI/Documentation/issues/75

William

retiutut

Thanks for bringing this up again. Will try to update this ASAP.

DashBarkHuss

This is what worked for me

https://www.loom.com/share/933dbff7de344e1c892667f36c8cb1cf