How do I compare two temperatures

[aratti]

I made the display of temperature, but do not know how to check whether increased or decreased, given that temperature is shown in the format xx.xx
Can you help me with some examples?

Now let assume that your unformatted temperature reading is contained in a variable named New_Temp, then make available an additional variable (same type) and call it Old_Temp.

Write a subroutine that you will call all the time you want to check the temperature variation.

Temp_Sub:
IF New_Temp > Old_Temp Then LCDOUT "up arrow"
IF New_Temp = Old_Temp Then LCDOUT "             "
IF New_Temp < Old_Temp Then LCDOUT "Dn arrow"
Old_Temp = New_Temp
Return

..... and you are in business.

Cheers

Al.

[malc-c]

You beat me to it.

I use a similar process for monitoring the temperatures in my Vivariums, and sounding an alarm if they exceed a set range. Basically

IF Temperature >  alarmhigh  then AlarmPin = 1
IF Temperature <  alarmlow  then AlarmPin = 1

The variables used are word type so in my code for the thermostat 23.6C would be stored as 236. Likewise a high threshold would be 350 (35.0c)

[aratti]

IF Temperature > alarmhigh then AlarmPin = 1
IF Temperature < alarmlow then AlarmPin = 1

Malcom, you have a typo in your two lines of code!

Al.