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# Akela-Heatmap
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The `Heatmap` plugin provides a LED effect, that displays a heatmap on the
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keyboard. The LEDs under each key will have a color according to how much use
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they see. Fewer used keys will have deep blue colors, that gradually turns
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lighter, then green, to yellow, and finally red for the most used keys. The
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heatmap is not updated on every key press, but periodically. It's precision is
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also an approximation, and not a hundred percent exact. Nevertheless, it is a
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reasonable estimate.
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## Using the plugin
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The plugin comes with reasonable defaults pre-configured, all one needs to do is
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include the header, and make sure the plugin is in use:
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```c++
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#include <Akela-Heatmap.h>
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void setup (void) {
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Keyboardio.setup (KEYMAP_SIZE);
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Keyboardio.use (&HeatmapEffect, NULL);
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}
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```
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This sets up the heatmap to update every 500 cycles, which is about 2.5 seconds,
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and is the default. It also registers a new LED effect, which means that if you
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have not set up any other effects, then Heatmap will likely be the default. You
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may not want that, so setting up at least one other LED effect, such as `LEDOff`
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is highly recommended.
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## Plugin methods
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The plugin provides two methods on the `HeatmapEffect` object:
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### `.configure(updateFrequency)`
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> Sets up the update frequency of the heatmap. The smaller this value is, the
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> more often the heatmap gets updated, but that comes with a cost: updating the
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> heatmap takes a fairly large amount of computation, and is not fast. Doing it
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> often will considerably slow down the keyboard, and that is rarely a desirable
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> thing.
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>
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> Nevertheless, the frequency preferred is a very subjective thing, which is why
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> this function exists. Give it a number, and it will wait that many scan cycles
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> between updates.
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>
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> Defaults to *500*.
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### `.activate()`
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> When called, immediately activates the Heatmap effect. Mostly useful in the
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> `setup()` method of the Sketch, or in macros that are meant to switch to the
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> heatmap effect, no matter where we are in the list.
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## Further reading
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Starting from the [example][plugin:example] is the recommended way of getting
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started with the plugin.
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[plugin:example]: https://github.com/Akela-Plugins/Akela-Heatmap/blob/master/examples/Heatmap/Heatmap.ino
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