Trying to inch my way to the finish line w/ a 16F1829.........

[thasatelliteguy]

YAY! No more timer, no more dropped letters, menus are beautiful again!

Yes the gearboxes hold the dish VERY securely. Plus, even if some wind or vibration caused some pulses, the MC will ignore them. Remember, the interrupt will fire no matter what, but unless the MC has an output high, to move the dish, it won't count them anywhere. It'll skip by all the if-then's and continue like nothing happened.

I put a button and led on INT pin and a LED on a spare pin then turned it on.
then I added:

LED = 0
pause 500
LED = 1

to the beginning of the interrupt handler. push push, blink blink, but no blackout from the response pin. So interrupt is not working.

[HenrikOlsson]

Hi,

YAY! No more timer, no more dropped letters, menus are beautiful again!

Ah, progress!

Yes the gearboxes hold the dish VERY securely. Plus, even if some wind or vibration caused some pulses, the MC will ignore them. Remember, the interrupt will fire no matter what, but unless the MC has an output high, to move the dish, it won't count them anywhere. It'll skip by all the if-then's and continue like nothing happened.

Yes, I understand that. I was more thinking of the vibration caused WHILE the dish IS being moved but again, it's probably not an issue.

I put a button and led on INT pin and a LED on a spare pin then turned it on.
then I added:

LED = 0
pause 500
LED = 1

First make sure you have control over that LED pin that you use in the ISR, blink the LED a couple of times at the start of the program just to make sure. Also, try removing the line where you manually set INTCON. A) You have several interrupt sources enabled that you don't actually use and B) DT-Ints handles setting INTCON for you.

/Henrik.

[thasatelliteguy]

Ok, I put a double blink on the Main Menu under the Acquire label since I'm not using it yet. So anytime, I can hit 3 on the main menu and led blinks off twice. No interrupt still. removed intcon