Hello people. I have a project involving an RC car and a "seat belt". Basically the car cannot move unless the seat belt is fastened. I am using an Arduino UNO to control whether the car moves. It checks for a logic 1 or 0 at pin 9, and controls a relay at pin 8. The program works and the car does move only when the seat belt is fastened, but when the seat belt is unfastened the car immediately slows to a halt. I needed to add a delay when the seat belt is unfastened. So I added the delay() function and tried uploading. Here's the problem. I added a delay of 60 seconds. When the seat belt is unfastened, the Arduino delays for 60 seconds before writing a LOW to the relay. This is perfect, but when I refasten the seat belt after 60 seconds, the Arduino waits another 60 seconds before re-activating the relay. So I need help. Is it possible to just run the if-else once? Like what ever is in the "else" just once?
*ignore LCD commands.
#include <LiquidCrystal.h>
LiquidCrystal lcd(12, 11, 5, 4, 3, 2);
int relayOut = 8;
int receiverIn = 9;
int x = 60;
Is this the code you tested because there is nothing there that delays for 60 seconds. I agree wih Mark, it does sound like a debounce problem. Your button is "bouncing" which cycles from high to low a few times before settling. During that time the code catches a low state and goes to the else portion of your code.
What you're looking for is called signal edge detection. You don't care that the input is LOW, you're just looking for when it goes from HIGH to LOW. To do that, you need to keep track of the last reading. If the current reading is HIGH and the last reading is LOW, you have what's called a falling edge.