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I have a device that is outputting the signal shown in the attached image.

The signal goes low for 3ms to start. Then a zero is indicated by high of 1ms and a low of 2ms, while a one is indicated by a high of 2ms and a low of 1ms. There are 8 bits in the signal. Then there is an approximately 9ms gap before it repeats as long as the signal is present.

Since I don't know when the signal will come in, I started by triggering an interrupt on the falling edge. Obviously this will trigger for every falling edge in the signal. So, I expect it to trigger every 3ms except during the gap of course. but what I am interested in is what happens during that 3ms.

This kind of thing has always been my weakest point and would love to learn how to do this.

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Hmmm.. I just did a bit of a writeup on decoding digital signals using the Input Capture function on Arduino the other day:

http://tmrh20.blogspot.com/2013/02/digital-data-encoding-manchester.html

The sketch there could be adapted to decode this type of signal.

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Thanks! I'll take a look.

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polling version in pseudocode

Code:

byte = 0;
wait for low;
wait 1.5 ms;  // go to middle of start bit
for (int i=0; i< 7; i++)
{
  wait  3ms; // middle of next bit;
  byte = byte << 1 + digitalRead(pin);
}

You can make it also interrupt based and compare the timestamp of the LOW with the timestamp of the last HIGH.
You need an ISR on CHANGE

pseudocode not tested

Code:

ISR()
{
  if (pin == HIGH) lastHIGH = millis();
  else
  {
    if (millis() - lastHIGH == 3)
    {
      byte = 0; // start a new byte
      count = 0;
    }
    else if (millis() - lastHIGH == 2) byte << 1 + 1;
    else byte << 1;
    count++;
    if (count == 8) ==> action on the byte.
  }
}