Delayed output 10 secs

[Darrel Taylor]

Maybe this will help ...

http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/show...7079#post47079
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[lilimike]

Its all good now!

Thanks

Mike

[lilimike]

Hi,

Trying out the "Elapsed Timer" I am observing these issues:

Beeing that I don't have an LCD module, I am trying to write the values in EEPROM and then read back using a PICKit2.

I know the code is working because LED1 is blinking and the rate seems to be good.

My first write is succesful
then trying to write the value for "Seconds" is always 00
trying to write the value for Minutes is always FF (even after a few minutes)

INCLUDE "DT_INTS-14.bas"
INCLUDE "ReEnterPBP.bas"
INCLUDE "Elapsed_INT.bas"  ; Elapsed Timer Routines
LED1 var portc.0
ASM
INT_LIST  macro    ; IntSource,        Label,  Type, ResetFlag?
        INT_Handler   TMR1_INT,  _ClockCount,   PBP,  yes
    endm
    INT_CREATE            ; Creates the interrupt processor

    INT_ENABLE  TMR1_INT  ; Enable Timer 1 Interrupts  
ENDASM

GOSUB ResetTime           ' Reset Time to  0d-00:00:00.00
GOSUB StartTimer          ' Start the Elapsed Timer

write 5,3 ; this is working fine.

Main:
  IF SecondsChanged = 1 THEN  
     SecondsChanged = 0
     toggle led1
     T1CON.0 = 0
     write 0,Minutes  ; this is always showing 00
     write 1,Seconds  ; this is always showing FF
     'LCDOUT $FE,2, DEC Days,"d-",DEC2 Hours,":",DEC2 Minutes,":",DEC2 Seconds
  ENDIF
GOTO Main

Am I missing something?

Thanks

Mike

[lilimike]

I tried adding DEFINE WRITE_INT 1 but still getting same results

[Darrel Taylor]

The T1CON.0 = 0 line is turning off the Timer.
So it never counts again.

At the start of the program, the SecondsChanged bit is set so that programs will display the initial 00:00:00.

So it stops counting before the first second passes.
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[lilimike]

Some days I feel dumber than others and today is one of those!

I tried joining this code with my code and things are not going so well... I have a piezo beeping on the press of the swithes and when I added this code it is more like rigning than beeping and also I have a feeling I need something short and simple but I am trying to use something big and complex.

All I really need is to have a counter that counts the minutes up to 720 and then cycle to 0 and start over endlessly. I don't need an interupt as I can test compare by branching from the main loop (in one minute I have plenty of time to test) Accuracy is not really important + or - 10 minutes over 720 is ok. I am already using timer0 so I guess I need to use timer1 or timer2.

Do you have any simple and quick advice or link to suggest?

I feel I have taked already too much of your time and I apologize for that.

Mike

[Archangel]

Some days I feel dumber than others and today is one of those!


All I really need is to have a counter that counts the minutes up to 720 and then cycle to 0 and start over endlessly. I don't need an interupt as I can test compare by branching from the main loop (in one minute I have plenty of time to test) Accuracy is not really important + or - 10 minutes over 720 is ok. I am already using timer0 so I guess I need to use timer1 or timer2.
Mike

Hi Mike,
Welcome to My World!

counter var byte
minutes var word
clear  ' zero variables at start
loop:

PortB  = %00000000
TRISB  = %00000000
counter = counter + 1
Pause 1000
If counter >= 60 then minutes  = minutes + 1 : counter = 0

if minutes >= 720 then gosub action
goto loop

Action:
minutes = 0
Toggle PortB.1 ' change this to do what you need done
return

A great clock this will not be, it does (should do) what you asked, you may need to juggle the numbers if you have a bunch of code to stuff in.

[Darrel Taylor]

Some days I feel dumber than others and today is one of those!

Well, that in itself implies there are days when you don't feel that way ...
Only prior instances of feeling "Smart" can make you recognize the "dumb" when it comes around.
Let's see if we can't make tomorrow a little better.

At first I was trying to make it easy with an example Without Interrupts.
Then you found my interrupt program, and the Elapsed Timer.
Combining the two has no doubt created the headaches.

I've tried to figure out what you were doing from the previous posts, and failed.

If I could see what you had so far, I might be able to combine things using only DT_INTS.
Who knows?
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