conflict solved, maybe

hangman/wordlists/nerdwords.txt

@@ -842,3 +842,5 @@ Borg
 Adrino
 Arduino
 Nodalpunktadapter
+Informationslebenszyklusmanagement
+desoxyribonukleinsaeure

mqtt-to-flipdot.py

@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ from threading import Thread
 
 global mode
 mode="standby"
-global gametimeout
-gametimeout=0
+global timeout
+timeout=0
 global flipthread
 flipthread=None
 
@@ -24,13 +24,14 @@ def on_connect(client, userdata, flags, rc):
 def on_message(client, userdata, msg):
         print(msg.topic + " " + str(msg.payload.decode("utf-8")))
         global mode
-        global gametimeout
+        global timeout
         global flipthread
 
-        if mode=="standby":
-            gametimeout=0
+        if mode=="standby" or mode=="inuse":
 
             if msg.topic == "raum2/flipdot/scroll/set":
+                mode="inuse"
+                updateTimeout()
                 payload = msg.payload.decode("utf-8")
             
                 if len(payload)>0 and (payload[0]).isdigit():
@@ -51,7 +52,7 @@ def on_message(client, userdata, msg):
                 flipthread=Thread(target=flipdot.send_marquee, args=(text,speed))
                 flipthread.start()
 
-            if msg.topic == "raum2/flipdot/text/set":
+            if mode!="inuse" and msg.topic == "raum2/flipdot/text/set": #used to display information regulary (time etc). only available if flipdot not in use
                 payload = msg.payload.decode("utf-8")
 
                 if flipthread is not None and flipthread.isAlive():
@@ -71,7 +72,9 @@ def on_message(client, userdata, msg):
                 flipthread.start()
 
 
-            if msg.topic == "raum2/flipdot/textFull/set":
+            if msg.topic == "raum2/flipdot/textFull/set": #scale/break text automatically
+                mode="inuse"
+                updateTimeout()
                 payload = msg.payload.decode("utf-8")
                 if len(payload)>0 and payload[0]=='~':
                     payload=payload[1:]
@@ -79,6 +82,8 @@ def on_message(client, userdata, msg):
                 flipdot.send_textFull(payload)
             
             if msg.topic == "raum2/flipdot/image/set":
+                mode="inuse"
+                updateTimeout()
                 payload = msg.payload.decode("utf-8")
                 print(payload)
                 flipdot.send_bytes(payload)    
@@ -90,12 +95,12 @@ def on_message(client, userdata, msg):
 
             if payload=="#start":
                 hangman.setup()
-                gametimeout=int(round(time.time() * 1000))
+                updateTimeout()
                 client.publish("raum2/flipdot/hangman","started")
                 mode="hangman"
             
             elif (mode=="hangman") and (len(payload)>0): #try entered character
-                gametimeout=int(round(time.time() * 1000))
+                updateTimeout()
                 trychar=payload[-1]
                 gamestatus=hangman.step(trychar)
                 client.publish("raum2/flipdot/hangman","char="+trychar.upper())
@@ -113,6 +118,9 @@ def on_message(client, userdata, msg):
                 mode="standby"            
                 client.publish("raum2/flipdot/hangman","ended")
 
+def updateTimeout():
+    global timeout
+    timeout=int(round(time.time() * 1000))
 	
 
 #flipdot = FlipdotSender("2001:67c:275c:a9::c", 2323)
@@ -131,11 +139,15 @@ client.loop_start()
 
 while True:
         millis = int(round(time.time() * 1000))
-        if gametimeout!=0:
-            if millis-120000 > gametimeout: #timeout
+        if (timeout!=0) and (mode=="hangman"):
+            if millis-120000 > timeout: #timeout
                 print("Game Timeout")
                 mode="standby"
-                gametimeout=0
+                timeout=0
+        if (timeout!=0) and (mode=="inuse"): #inuse: flipdot was manually controlled, do not update time,pwr etc for a while
+            if millis-10000 > timeout: #timeout
+                mode="standby"
+                timeout=0
 
         time.sleep(2)