can someone help me with RCTIME

[gandora]

As pointed out earlier, RCTIME is a digital function not analog. So you'll need to enable the port in digital mode. Your code gears the port up in analog mode. BS2 is an unpopular joke in my opinion.

Alright Thankyou for your help i now got it to work. For other newbs who would prefer not make a fool of themselves. The working code is below.

Thanks again. it now results in different things depending on the light. ^^

'---clock settings
        define OSC 8
        OSCCON = %1111110 ' sets internal osc to run at 8MHZ

'----------turn analog on porta off, and use as digital input/output
        CMCON = 7 'Comparators off
        ANSEL = 0 'A/D off -- Port pins all digital
'----------^^^^^^^^^^
'----------the change is in this block of code

'---** Constants

rcpin var porta.3

'---**variables

rcreturn var byte

'------**main program



loop:  

'----its rctime!
pause 1000

high rcpin
pause 5 
rctime rcpin,1,rcreturn
low rcpin


'----(end rctime) shows over folks ^^



'----send serial feedback      
        serout2 porta.0, 16468, ["rc time was: ",dec rcreturn] 'call for data    
 '-----end serial feedback

goto loop   'loop forever
end

[mister_e]

in case you're using a LDR (or high impedance analog source), i see some advantage of RCTime.. unless, i really don't. A simple transistor+few resistor + PIC adc, would be my solution if i need accuracy.

Level detector? ---> PIC Comparator

OR, PIC16F785 i've ordered a thousand of them yesterday, sOOOO much nice stuff on-board... built-in OP-AMP, 2 phase PWM + asynchronous feedback as a teaser...

NEW TOY, NEW TOY