Electron battery status and GPS

Troubleshooting
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Hello,

In my project I am trying to get GPS coordinates from sensor and post them to cloud. Also I am trying to monitor the battery and tell if the device is connected to electricity and charging or it is not charging. I have implemented my solution like it can be seen below. I am kinda newbie and I am asking for advice if my thinking is OK or i should make some conceptual changes? in example putting functions “function_GPS_Load” and “function_IsCharging” in its own software interrupts, set global values inside interrupt and just print them in loop?

This is my code:

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <TinyGPS++/TinyGPS++.h>

/*      GPS      */
TinyGPSPlus gps;

/* GPS telemetry values */
float gps_lat =0;
float gps_lng =0;
int gps_ready =0;

/*        BATTERY         */
// Battery state - if charging then engine is ON
float last_batt_level =0;
int is_charging =0;

volatile bool doTheWork = false;

/*       TIMERS       */
//timer that sets variable in loop to true
Timer timer(60000, function_doTheWork);

void setup()
{
    Serial.begin(9600);
    timer.start();
}

void loop()
{
    if(doTheWork == true)
    {
      noInterrupts();

      function_GPS_Load();

      function_IsCharging();
      doTheWork = false;

      interrupts();
    }
}

void function_GPS_Load(){

    Serial.println("GPS encoding started.");

    unsigned long start = millis();
    do
    {
      while (Serial1.available())
        gps.encode(Serial1.read());
    } while (millis() - start < 60000);

    char coord1[10];
    sprintf(coord1, "%f", (gps.location.lat(), gps.location.isValid(), 11, 6));
    char coord2[10];
    sprintf(coord2, "%f", (gps.location.lng(), gps.location.isValid(), 12, 6));

    char location[21];
    strcpy(location,coord1);
    strcat(location,",");
    strcat(location,coord2);

    Serial.println(location);

    // Set global GPS values
    gps_lat = atof(coord1);
    gps_lng = atof(coord2);

    if (millis() > 5000 && gps.charsProcessed() < 10)
      Serial.println(F("No GPS data received: check wiring"));

    String data = String::format("{ \"gps_location\": \"%s\" }", location);
    Particle.publish("p2a-gps", data, PRIVATE);
}

void function_IsCharging()
{
    // Prepare json data object
    FuelGauge fuel;
    float batt_level = fuel.getSoC();
    if(definitelyLessThan(last_batt_level, batt_level, 0.001))
    {
        is_charging =1;
    }
    else
    {
        is_charging =0;
    }
    last_batt_level = batt_level;
    String data = String::format("{ \"is_charging\": %i }", is_charging);
    Particle.publish("p2a-battery", data, PRIVATE);
}

void function_doTheWork()
{
  doTheWork = true;
}

//helper
bool definitelyLessThan(float a, float b, float epsilon)
{
  return (b - a) > ( (fabs(a) < fabs(b) ? fabs(b) : fabs(a)) * epsilon);
}
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The code in the PowerCheck class in this post is a better way to tell if the battery is charging. It has several useful methods including getIsCharging(), getIsPowered(), and getHasBattery().

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