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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Melissa LeBlanc-Williams for Adafruit Industries
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+"""
+`rotaryio` - Support for reading rotation sensors
+===========================================================
+See `CircuitPython:rotaryio` in CircuitPython for more details.
+
+* Author(s): Melissa LeBlanc-Williams
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+import threading
+import microcontroller
+import digitalio
+
+# Define the state transition table for the quadrature encoder
+transitions = [
+ 0, # 00 -> 00 no movement
+ -1, # 00 -> 01 3/4 ccw (11 detent) or 1/4 ccw (00 at detent)
+ +1, # 00 -> 10 3/4 cw or 1/4 cw
+ 0, # 00 -> 11 non-Gray-code transition
+ +1, # 01 -> 00 2/4 or 4/4 cw
+ 0, # 01 -> 01 no movement
+ 0, # 01 -> 10 non-Gray-code transition
+ -1, # 01 -> 11 4/4 or 2/4 ccw
+ -1, # 10 -> 00 2/4 or 4/4 ccw
+ 0, # 10 -> 01 non-Gray-code transition
+ 0, # 10 -> 10 no movement
+ +1, # 10 -> 11 4/4 or 2/4 cw
+ 0, # 11 -> 00 non-Gray-code transition
+ +1, # 11 -> 01 1/4 or 3/4 cw
+ -1, # 11 -> 10 1/4 or 3/4 ccw
+ 0, # 11 -> 11 no movement
+]
+
+
+class IncrementalEncoder:
+ """
+ IncrementalEncoder determines the relative rotational position based on two series of
+ pulses. It assumes that the encoder’s common pin(s) are connected to ground,and enables
+ pull-ups on pin_a and pin_b.
+
+ Create an IncrementalEncoder object associated with the given pins. It tracks the
+ positional state of an incremental rotary encoder (also known as a quadrature encoder.)
+ Position is relative to the position when the object is constructed.
+ """
+
+ def __init__(
+ self, pin_a: microcontroller.Pin, pin_b: microcontroller.Pin, divisor: int = 4
+ ):
+ """
+ Create an IncrementalEncoder object associated with the given pins. It tracks the
+ positional state of an incremental rotary encoder (also known as a quadrature encoder.)
+ Position is relative to the position when the object is constructed.
+
+ :param microcontroller.Pin pin_a: The first pin connected to the encoder.
+ :param microcontroller.Pin pin_b: The second pin connected to the encoder.
+ :param int divisor: The number of pulses per encoder step. Default is 4.
+ """
+ self._pin_a = digitalio.DigitalInOut(pin_a)
+ self._pin_a.switch_to_input(pull=digitalio.Pull.UP)
+ self._pin_b = digitalio.DigitalInOut(pin_b)
+ self._pin_b.switch_to_input(pull=digitalio.Pull.UP)
+ self._position = 0
+ self._last_state = 0
+ self._divisor = divisor
+ self._sub_count = 0
+ self._poll_thread = threading.Thread(target=self._polling_loop, daemon=True)
+ self._poll_thread.start()
+
+ def deinit(self):
+ """Deinitializes the IncrementalEncoder and releases any hardware resources for reuse."""
+ self._pin_a.deinit()
+ self._pin_b.deinit()
+ if self._poll_thread.is_alive():
+ self._poll_thread.join()
+
+ def __enter__(self) -> IncrementalEncoder:
+ """No-op used by Context Managers."""
+ return self
+
+ def __exit__(self, _type, _value, _traceback):
+ """
+ Automatically deinitializes when exiting a context. See
+ :ref:`lifetime-and-contextmanagers` for more info.
+ """
+ self.deinit()
+
+ @property
+ def divisor(self) -> int:
+ """The divisor of the quadrature signal. Use 1 for encoders without detents, or encoders
+ with 4 detents per cycle. Use 2 for encoders with 2 detents per cycle. Use 4 for encoders
+ with 1 detent per cycle."""
+ return self._divisor
+
+ @divisor.setter
+ def divisor(self, value: int):
+ self._divisor = value
+
+ @property
+ def position(self) -> int:
+ """The current position in terms of pulses. The number of pulses per rotation is defined
+ by the specific hardware and by the divisor."""
+ return self._position
+
+ @position.setter
+ def position(self, value: int):
+ self._position = value
+
+ def _get_pin_state(self) -> int:
+ """Returns the current state of the pins."""
+ return self._pin_a.value << 1 | self._pin_b.value
+
+ def _polling_loop(self):
+ while True:
+ self._poll_encoder()
+
+ def _poll_encoder(self):
+ # Check the state of the pins
+ # if either pin has changed, update the state
+ new_state = self._get_pin_state()
+ if new_state != self._last_state:
+ self._state_update(new_state)
+ self._last_state = new_state
+
+ def _state_update(self, new_state: int):
+ new_state &= 3
+ index = self._last_state << 2 | new_state
+ sub_increment = transitions[index]
+ self._sub_count += sub_increment
+ if self._sub_count >= self._divisor:
+ self._position += 1
+ self._sub_count = 0
+ elif self._sub_count <= -self._divisor:
+ self._position -= 1
+ self._sub_count = 0