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Hi all. I am a biologist researching penguins in South America. I have made a scale that logs the wieght and direction of the penguins as they move across the scale and then logs the data with a timestamp to a libelum microsd module.  

I made use of the following thread:

http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1257531430/0

I'm using the filelogger library and I've made liberal use of the code from various threads on the board, so sorry if it is a bit untidy.

It works fine except for the month, day and year entries.  Year is easy enough to fix, but the month entry increases by 1 every 24 hours and the day only cycles through 10 before resetting.  I've tested the coding for the clock without saving and it is fine so I think it has to do with the how the data is converted to be saved to the SD card.

Any help would be appreciated.

Code:

#include <Wire.h>
#include <FileLogger.h>
#define MEM_PW 8

# define LOAD1 0 //select the input pin for the sensor resistor
# define LOAD2 1
# define LOAD3 2
# define LOAD4 3
int second=0;
int hour=0;
int minute=0;
int month=0;
int day=0;
int year=0;

int val1 = 0; // variable to store the value coming sensor resistor
int val2 = 0;
int val3 = 0;
int val4 = 0;
int sumval = 0;
int nestside = 0;
int seaside = 0;
float weight=0;
byte inSerByte = 0; // variable used when reading from serial


void setup()
{ pinMode(MEM_PW, OUTPUT);
  digitalWrite(MEM_PW, HIGH);  //the MicroSD Module the power comes from a digital pin this activates it at all times
  Serial.begin(9600);//configure the serial port to command the card and read data
  Wire.begin();
}




void loop() {
  // Below required to reset the register address to 0.
  

val1 = analogRead(LOAD1); // read the valueS from the sensorS
  val2 = analogRead(LOAD2);  
  val3 = analogRead(LOAD3);  
  val4 = analogRead(LOAD4);  

  nestside = val3 + val4;  
  seaside = val1 + val2;

  sumval = nestside + seaside;
  
 
   if (sumval>100)
   {
     Wire.beginTransmission(104); // transmit to device #104, the ds 1307
  Wire.send(0x0);
  Wire.endTransmission();    // stop transmitting

  Wire.requestFrom(104, 7);    // request 7 bytes from slave ds1307, we'll assume it'll send them all even though it doesn't have to
   second = Wire.receive();
  minute = Wire.receive();
  hour = Wire.receive();
  day = Wire.receive();
  month = Wire.receive();
  year = Wire.receive();

  // Convert all the BCD values that might have "tens" to decimal.  Most arduino folks do this w/shifts but this just looks easier to me .
  int hour1=hour/16 * 10 + hour % 16;
  int minute1=minute/16 * 10 + minute % 16;
  int second1=second/16 * 10 + second % 16;
  int day1=day/16 * 10 + day % 16;
  int month1=month/16 * 10 + month % 16;
  int year1=2000 + year/16 * 10 + year % 16;

    
 weight= sumval;
long nestside1=nestside;
long seaside1 = seaside;
long weight1= weight;
long second2=second1;
long minute2=minute1;
long hour2=hour1;
long day2=day1;
long month2=month1;
long year2=year;
 
 char message[20];
 sprintf(message,"%ld,%ld,%ld,%ld,%ld,%ld,%ld,%1d,%1d,%ld,%1d,%1d/n ",nestside1, seaside1, weight1, second2, minute2, hour2, day2, month2, year2,0,0 );
 unsigned long length = strlen(message);
  
  FileLogger::append("hola.txt", (byte*)message, length);
 Serial.println (message);
 delay(800);
 }}

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Code:

Wire.requestFrom(104, 7);    // request 7 bytes from slave ds1307, we'll assume it'll send them all even though it doesn't have to
   second = Wire.receive();
  minute = Wire.receive();
  hour = Wire.receive();
  day = Wire.receive();
  month = Wire.receive();
  year = Wire.receive();

The data being sent back is seconds, minute, hour, day-of-week, day, month, year. You can't just ignore day-of-week in the middle because you are not interested in it.

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Thanks...I have to go back to the field to test it out, I'll keep you posted on how things work.

Best,

Marc