Hi,
I have been playing with the latest firmware and the timer() trying to see if I can read the temperature from a ds18b20 every 15 seconds, whilst doing other things. If I use the temperature code in the main loop I get temperature readings e.g. 26C. However as soon as I move this to a function that is called every 15 seconds the celsius reading is -0.062500.
If I am going about this the wrong way can you suggest a better approach? As an example use case this is a starting point of what I want to achieve…
Take a temperature reading every 15 seconds and publish the value.
On an interrupt if motion is detected from a PIR sensor publish that motion has been detected and flash an LED with a delay of 1 second.
On a request take a light level reading from an LDR using Particle.function() to take a reading now and Particle.variable() to retrieve the value.
This is just a basic example but including a few techniques I want to be able to use together.
Some sample code is below any help would be much appreciated.
Many thanks
Andy
// This #include statement was automatically added by the Particle IDE.
#include "Particle-OneWire/Particle-OneWire.h"
// Globals
OneWire ds(D2);
int LED = D7; // pin for LED
//int PIR = D3; //pin for PIR motion sensor
Timer tempTimer(13750, take_temperature);
Timer ledTimer(1000, blink_led);
void setup()
{
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(LED, OUTPUT); // Use for a simple test of the led on or off by subscribing to a topical called led
//pinMode(PIR, INPUT_PULLUP); // Initialize pin as input with an internal pull-up resistor
tempTimer.start();
}
void blink_led()
{
//blink light
digitalWrite(LED, HIGH);
delay(1000);
digitalWrite(LED, LOW);
}
void take_temperature()
{
byte i;
byte present = 0;
byte type_s;
byte data[12];
byte addr[8];
float celsius, fahrenheit;
if ( !ds.search(addr)) {
Serial.println("No more addresses.");
Serial.println();
ds.reset_search();
delay(250);
return;
}
Serial.print("ROM =");
for( i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
Serial.write(' ');
Serial.print(addr[i], HEX);
}
if (OneWire::crc8(addr, 7) != addr[7]) {
Serial.println("CRC is not valid!");
return;
}
Serial.println();
// the first ROM byte indicates which chip
switch (addr[0]) {
case 0x10:
Serial.println(" Chip = DS18S20"); // or old DS1820
type_s = 1;
break;
case 0x28:
Serial.println(" Chip = DS18B20");
type_s = 0;
break;
case 0x22:
Serial.println(" Chip = DS1822");
type_s = 0;
break;
default:
Serial.println("Device is not a DS18x20 family device.");
return;
}
ds.reset();
ds.select(addr);
ds.write(0x44, 1); // start conversion, with parasite power on at the end
delay(1000); // maybe 750ms is enough, maybe not
// we might do a ds.depower() here, but the reset will take care of it.
present = ds.reset();
ds.select(addr);
ds.write(0xBE); // Read Scratchpad
Serial.print(" Data = ");
Serial.print(present, HEX);
Serial.print(" ");
for ( i = 0; i < 9; i++) { // we need 9 bytes
data[i] = ds.read();
Serial.print(data[i], HEX);
Serial.print(" ");
}
Serial.print(" CRC=");
Serial.print(OneWire::crc8(data, 8), HEX);
Serial.println();
// Convert the data to actual temperature
// because the result is a 16 bit signed integer, it should
// be stored to an "int16_t" type, which is always 16 bits
// even when compiled on a 32 bit processor.
int16_t raw = (data[1] << 8) | data[0];
if (type_s) {
raw = raw << 3; // 9 bit resolution default
if (data[7] == 0x10) {
// "count remain" gives full 12 bit resolution
raw = (raw & 0xFFF0) + 12 - data[6];
}
} else {
byte cfg = (data[4] & 0x60);
// at lower res, the low bits are undefined, so let's zero them
if (cfg == 0x00) raw = raw & ~7; // 9 bit resolution, 93.75 ms
else if (cfg == 0x20) raw = raw & ~3; // 10 bit res, 187.5 ms
else if (cfg == 0x40) raw = raw & ~1; // 11 bit res, 375 ms
//// default is 12 bit resolution, 750 ms conversion time
}
celsius = (float)raw / 16.0;
fahrenheit = celsius * 1.8 + 32.0;
Serial.print(" Temperature = ");
Serial.print(celsius);
Serial.print(" Celsius, ");
Particle.publish("temperature/celsius/", String(celsius));
Serial.print(fahrenheit);
Serial.println(" Fahrenheit");
Particle.publish("temperature/celsius/", String(celsius));
}