Any chance to find out about device type (Argon, Xenon, Photon) at runtime?

[Herkules]

Hi all!

I’d like to supply Information about the device type. How can I get it in my firmware?

Thx alot,

. J

[ninjatill]

At run-time, I think you can only grab the device ID using System.deviceID();. I don't know if you can grab the device type from the OS API. There's a good example of getting device information as a Particle.variable in this post:

What program is in my Photon? Is the filename uploaded to it?

@OdorDecoder, I use a Particle.variable to report some details on what is running on a given device: // This strips the path from the filename #define __FILENAME__ (strrchr(__FILE__, '/') ? strrchr(__FILE__, '/') + 1 : __FILE__) char gDeviceInfo[120]; //adjust size as required void setup() { Particle.variable("deviceInfo",gDeviceInfo); snprintf(gDeviceInfo, sizeof(gDeviceInfo) ,"App: %s, Date: %s, Time: %s, Sysver: %s ,__FILENAME__ ,__DATE__ ,__TI…

As far as knowing the Argon/Xenon/Boron device type, you can do that at compile-time using the example in this post which uses PLATFORM_ID:

Mesh range / external antenna?

There will eventually be a setting to set and save the selected mesh antenna (internal vs. external). However, if you want to play around with it now, you can just copy and paste this function and call it to select the external (u.FL connector) mesh antenna. The setting is not saved. The default is internal. void selectExternalMeshAntenna() { #if (PLATFORM_ID == PLATFORM_ARGON) digitalWrite(ANTSW1, 1); digitalWrite(ANTSW2, 0); #elif (PLATFORM_ID == PLATFORM_BORON) digitalWrite(ANTSW1, 0); #…

[armor]

@Herkules AFAIK there is no System. call.

Since you need to compile for a specific platform you would know from your code either by using #if (PLATFORM_ID == PLATFORM_ARGON) etc. where you could define a variable to use at runtime.

[ScruffR]

PLATFORM_ID is just a #define macro and will give you a number which you just can use as any other number literal too.
There also is a SYSTEM_VERSION number if you want that (although there are also System.version() and System.versionNumber())
e.g.

  Serial.printlnf("%d (System %06x)", PLATFORM_ID, SYSTEM_VERSION);