Another day, another Firmata fork. I spent the last few days messing around with getting Firmata working on the LightBlue BLE Bean. I had previously written the Node NPM package for the Bean as an exercise to get to know both Node and the Bean. Why not give it full Firmata control?

You need firmata on your bean from my clone and @monteslu has put together a node example turning my bean package into a serial port and hooking it to firmata.js!

The big gotchas Ive found so far are is that Punchthrough actually moved pins around in pins_arduino.h. There should be a fix for this but Standard firmata writes pins in order on the port.. So for now I'm just using the true pin names which map like so:

a0 -> a4->d18 a1 -> a5->d19 d0 -> d6 -- Unavailable right now from firmata d1 -> d9 -- Unavailable right now from firmata d2 -> d10 d3 -> d11 d4 -> d12 d5 -> d13

Beyond that I would avoid all other pins which still exist and could be hooked up to anything for all I know. This sketch doesnt protect any pins. Setting anything else very well may take your bean offline or worse..

Other than that I just added Bean.sleep at the end of loop to allow bean to sleep for power saves. Adjust to taste.

Besides resolving the pin mapping, theres plenty to be done to make this a full port. There should be a more clear Firmata Boards.h entry to show the true available pins, and in Standard firmata we might look to protect other pins from being touched. I also havent tested servo/pwm/etc functionality, especially with the sleep addition...

Note -- I've been using firmata.js for my Node firmata needs but we've found some problems with how chatty it is out of the box. It was designed for a serial cable world and we're quickly moving past that, though our PRs arent being accepted. @monteslu has a firmata.js fork up that we're now using exclusively