chore: changed the Message class to accept the List of Strings.

lib/bademagic_module/bluetooth/bluetooth.dart

@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ class BadgeMagicBluetooth {
         (results) async {
           if (results.isNotEmpty) {
             foundDevice = results.firstWhere(
-              (result) =>
-                  result.device.remoteId.toString() == "50:54:7B:63:10:F5",
+              (result) => result.advertisementData.serviceUuids
+                  .contains(Guid("0000fee0-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb")),
             );
             if (foundDevice != null) {
               await connectToDevice(foundDevice!, data);

lib/bademagic_module/models/messages.dart

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import 'package:badgemagic/bademagic_module/models/mode.dart';
 import 'package:badgemagic/bademagic_module/models/speed.dart';
 
 class Message {
-  final String text;
+  final List<String> text;
   final bool flash;
   final bool marquee;
   final Speed speed;

lib/bademagic_module/utils/converters.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+import 'package:badgemagic/bademagic_module/utils/data_to_bytearray_converter.dart';
+
+class Converters {
+  //this function converts the user entered message to hex
+  //compares the message to the map of characters and returns the hex value of the character
+  //then adds the hexstring to the list
+  //thus generating the hex value of the message
+  static List<String> messageTohex(String message) {
+    List<String> messages = [];
+    int i = 0;
+    while (i < message.length) {
+      var ch = message[i];
+      logger.d("ch = $ch");
+      if (charCodes.containsKey(ch)) {
+        messages.add(charCodes[ch]!);
+      }
+      i++;
+    }
+    logger.d("message to hex = $message");
+    return messages;
+  }
+}

lib/providers/badge_message_provider.dart

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import 'package:badgemagic/bademagic_module/models/data.dart';
 import 'package:badgemagic/bademagic_module/models/messages.dart';
 import 'package:badgemagic/bademagic_module/models/mode.dart';
 import 'package:badgemagic/bademagic_module/models/speed.dart';
+import 'package:badgemagic/bademagic_module/utils/converters.dart';
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 import 'package:logger/logger.dart';
 
@@ -36,7 +37,12 @@ class BadgeMessageProvider extends ChangeNotifier {
   void generateMessage(
       String text, bool flash, bool marq, Speed speed, Mode mode) {
     Data data = Data(messages: [
-      Message(text: text, flash: flash, marquee: marq, speed: speed, mode: mode)
+      Message(
+          text: Converters.messageTohex(text),
+          flash: flash,
+          marquee: marq,
+          speed: speed,
+          mode: mode)
     ]);
     dataFormed(data);
     transferData(data);