# Addition to Controller Configuration screen

**URL:** <https://forum.electra.one/t/addition-to-controller-configuration-screen/1885>\
**Category:** Ideas / Feature requests\
**Created:** [January 30, 2023, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.electra.one/t/addition-to-controller-configuration-screen/1885 "2023-01-30T20:15:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![oldgearguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f4b2a3/32.png) [@oldgearguy](https://forum.electra.one/u/oldgearguy)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.electra.one/t/addition-to-controller-configuration-screen/1885/1 "2023-01-30T20:15:29Z")

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Is it possible to add a “Logging/Debugging” on/off option to the controller screen?

If I try sending the MIDI string as a copy/paste from the documentation to the MIDI console, it is an invalid string with the hex notation. Adding quotes - still invalid. Removing the 0x prefixes - still invalid. It looks like the MIDI console needs decimal numbers only??

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**Author:** ![martin](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.electra.one/martin/32/145_2.png) [@martin](https://forum.electra.one/u/martin)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://forum.electra.one/t/addition-to-controller-configuration-screen/1885/2 "2023-01-30T20:32:15Z")

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yeah, I know I am going to update all the hex numbers on the docs. I am personally used to 0x notation, but midi console uses the sendmidi format. ie. decimal numbers are just plain numbers and hex has the “h” suffix. (0Ah, 10h, 7fh, …)

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**Author:** ![oldgearguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f4b2a3/32.png) [@oldgearguy](https://forum.electra.one/u/oldgearguy)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 10:01pm UTC](https://forum.electra.one/t/addition-to-controller-configuration-screen/1885/3 "2023-01-30T22:01:59Z")

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> [@martin](#):
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> midi console uses the sendmidi format. ie. decimal numbers are just plain numbers and hex has the “h” suffix. (0Ah, 10h, 7fh, …)

ohh - didn’t try h. That will work then. I’m good with hex, but converting back to decimal in my head is slow. 😁

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**Author:** ![oldgearguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f4b2a3/32.png) [@oldgearguy](https://forum.electra.one/u/oldgearguy)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 10:10am UTC](https://forum.electra.one/t/addition-to-controller-configuration-screen/1885/4 "2023-03-01T10:10:55Z")

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In general this seems to work, except when I try to send numbers that do not contain letters.

so – F0h 0Ah 3Bh all work. When I put 60h in the array I get an error message saying something about invalid something near 60h

I had to change it to a regular decimal (96) for it to work properly. This was inside an array assignment loop inside some LUA code. myMsg = {10, 0, 0Ah, 60h, 3Bh}

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**Author:** ![martin](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.electra.one/martin/32/145_2.png) [@martin](https://forum.electra.one/u/martin)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 9:36am UTC](https://forum.electra.one/t/addition-to-controller-configuration-screen/1885/5 "2023-03-02T09:36:50Z")

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the notation with “h” suffix works in the MIDI console. For Lua the native Lua syntax must be used. I do not convert the code in any way.

Thinking about that… I will probably add the 0x format to MIDI console. That way it will accept more ways of expressing the hex numbers.

And yeah, I was thinking about having a small built-in hex/dec/bin convertor or calculator in the web app. Switching to different app to convert numbers is irritating…