Task Scheduler on a Photon (for multi-tasking and interrupt handling)

[LukeUSMC]

Here are a couple of libs that may accomplish what you want or be a good base to build on.

IntervalTimer library

There are some topics touching on using hardware timers on the Spark. However, I have not found any libraries for this. So, Which hardware timers are available to the user? How can they be setup to generate timed interrupts? Has anyone written a library to use these timers? Teensy has a library called IntervalTimer() that calls an ISR with user code at defined intervals. I also know that PJRC is working on a timer “pool” that automatically allocates a hw timer to the user. It would be gr…

TimeAlarms scheduler

Has anyone experimented with porting Arduino’s TimeAlarms (source on GitHub)? This library is a cron-like time-based scheduler, with a typical usage of something like Alarm.alarmRepeat(time, callback). Alarms can either be continuous or one-off. @peekay123’s Spark-Interval-Timer is close, but our use case requires more than three scheduled tasks (~5-6 at any given time) and longer intervals (Spark-Interval-Timer is limited to a max of ~30 seconds; our intervals can be anywhere between a day to…